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Bloomberg Businessweek

AT&T Merges Media Assets With Discovery in $130 Billion Deal

May 17, 2021
36:26

We start with a discussion of the CDC's new mask guidelines with Alyssa Rapp, CEO of Surgical Solutions. Bloomberg News Entertainment Reporter Lucas Shaw explains what the AT&T, Discovery deal means for the media industry. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News P&I Reporter Lauren Etter share the story of how a secretive hedge fund manager and his deep-pocketed allies became activists when their kids got hooked on vaping. Bloomberg News Trade Tsar Brendan Murray has the Bloomberg Big Take story "The Big Crunch: In a Super-Charged Economy, Companies Panic Buy." And we Drive to the Close with Alan Zafran, Founding Partner and Co-CEO at IEQ Capital.

Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan.

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