wall street bankers, but the idea is how to monetize the audience. people i talk to inside the campaign say they have a list of 25 million proprietary names that could be the foundation of a future trump tv. these are people they could market directly to. so by testing through facebook, this is a way to really get the b ball rolling. they could use all this polling information, the data they have gathered over the last six months and turn this to a private investment venture, essentially. exactly, and really what facebook is doing is trying to bypass cable networks like msnbc. you can go directly to the audience. the problem is the money is just not there. really, all the revenue is still in the cable tv industry. and that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars for trump to invest in to get onto a cable system. but, hold on. how many people are watching? right now, small, like 50,000 or 60,000 streams which is good for facebook, but a very small audience. even 50,000 or 6
similar vests from the garage. police have been sorting through the rubble looking for clues is surrounding the death of savopoulos, his wife anson, and their housekeeper figueroa. when wint was arrested his brother was taken into custody. five others have been released without being charged. his next court date, june 23rd. ryan smith, abc news, new york. the cable tv industry is approaching another wave of consolidation. st. louis-based charter communications has reportedly struck a deal to buy time warner for about $55 billion in cash and stock. this is the second attempt we ve seen here after comcast s failed bid for time warner. the combined company would be the nation s second largest cable tv provider behind comcast. the deal likely still to face scrutiny from the justice department and the fcc. now to a merger that could only have been made in video game heaven. two video gamers in northeastern pennsylvania.
police have been sorting through the rubble looking for clues is surrounding the death of savopoulos, his wife anson, and their housekeeper figueroa. when wint was arrested his brother was taken into custody. five others have been released without being charged. his next court date, june 23rd. ryan smith, abc news, new york. the cable tv industry is approaching another wave of consolidation. st. louis-based charter communications has reportedly struck a deal to buy time warner for about $55 billion in cash and stock. this is the second attempt we ve seen here after comcast s failed bid for time warner. the combined company would be the nation s second largest cable tv provider behind comcast. the deal likely still to face scrutiny from the justice department and the fcc. now to a merger that could only have been made in video game heaven. two video gamers in northeastern pennsylvania.
the argument might be this is too big. that a company with this much power across the media landscape is too big. comcast responds to all of that. time-warner cable and comcast do not compete directly in any market. there is no loss of consumer choice and they are saying look, you have a lot of choices to get media in your house besides cable companies these days. through a phone company and through satellite tv. so they are saying cable is not your only option. that s the argument. i noticed that some people are pointing to tom wheeler, the head of the fcc used to be the top lobbyist for the cable tv industry. is that a conflict of interest. it will be interesting to see if he refuses himself. he also is head of the fcc. everybody knew that when he was confirm and this is by far the
happy happy. i love logistics. netflix is expected to release its third quarter earnings report tomorrow. this after the company s stock hit a record high friday. the success the company is enjoying this year had many seeing them as a threat to the cable tv industry. in a surprise twist, a new article published in the atlantic says the company is talking seriously with comcast to become a stand-alone channel, so instead of trying to disrupt cable tv, netflix might be teaming up with them. joining me now, derek thompson, senior editor at the atlantic. is it in netflix s best interest to team up with cable tv? it seems to me both netflix and cable want what the other person has. for netflix, they want to be a