The Companies Most Likely to Be Bought or Sold in 2024

The Town with Matthew Belloni

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Matt is joined by Axios senior correspondent Sara Fischer to dissect the biggest deals of 2023, and what we can expect in 2024. They discuss why private equity may dominate the deal market next year, the possibility of a major merger, and predict what 2024 will hold for Paramount Global, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast, theater chains, NBA rights, and more. Matt finishes the show by giving a prediction on a potential IATSE strike in the spring. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! thetown@spotify.com Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Sara Fischer Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.7	in sessions. It is Wednesday, December 6th. It's been kind of a weird year on the big
1:06.9	deals front in entertainment. There's a bunch of reasons for that. High interest rates,
1:11.6	inflation, antitrust concerns, the bursting of the peak TV bubble, and the strikes, of course.
1:18.0	That work stoppage also effectively killed talent dealmaking for about six months as any board
1:23.2	agent could tell you this summer. And it's only now starting to recover. At the beginning of this
1:28.2	year, we had Sarah Fisher on the show. She's the media deal reporter from Axios and a contributor at CNN.
1:34.4	She predicted it was going to be a buyer's market this year. That turned out to be true. Yet there
1:39.4	were some bigger ticket transactions in the space. The WWE finally sold to Endeavor, the Sports and Talent
1:45.2	Agency company. CAA, Endeavor's big rival in the talent space, they saw their majority stakes sold
1:50.6	to the French luxury goods billionaire Francois Pinot. The agency was valued at about $7 billion
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