This is Mac OSKinn.

A fun rumor with which to play, the Empire State wants to be the evil Empire State,

and Talk Time is such a pass-a-stat.

It's Tuesday the 14th of January 2016. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco-S-Can.

Brought to you by yours truly who is apparently under the impression that every day is Tuesday.

It's actually Thursday, just like yesterday was Wednesday.

Don't believe everything you hear.

You know the building talk over the past couple of months that Apple should use part of its 200 billion dollar war chest to buy something big?

The New York Post thinks it knows just the thing, and that thing is Time Warner.

Two things make Time Warner look particularly attractive, according to the post.

First, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bukes seems open to a sale.

According the report, Bukes met investors in a series of closed-door meetings on Monday and Tuesday,

telling them, according to sources familiar with the talks, that he's against a sale or a spin-off of HBO, although he hinted a

sale of his media giant could be entertained. I'm assuming that's not a euphemism.

The piece continues splitting off HBO or the company's

Turner Broadcasting cable TV division doesn't make sense in a media world

where increasingly scale matters, Buke said, according to people briefed on the meetings.

The other thing that makes Time Warner look like an attractive acquisition, the company looks

vulnerable from a takeover point of view. Quoting the post again, with Time Warner's shares closing at $71.06 on Tuesday,

well below the $85 offer from 21st Century Fox that its board rejected 18 months ago. The New York company is seen as a sitting

duck among media companies because it, unlike its peers, doesn't have a dual-class shareholder

structure. Basically that means that there's one class of shares

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