Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, November 2nd,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today. Looks like Disney is finally going to

swallow Hulu.

One more time, we're going to take a look at the AI regulation debate this time, noting that

governments are regulating tech ahead of time for the first time in a while.

You also might want to tip your door dasher ahead of time and can I

coin a term Arizona is becoming the Silicon Mesa. Here's what you miss

today in the world of tech. A longstanding digital media saga looks like it's coming to a

conclusion. Disney apparently plans to acquire NBCU's 33% stake in Hulu, thereby gaining full ownership,

and expects to pay around 8.61 billion dollars to do so, which represents NBCU's share of a 27 and a half billion dollar guaranteed floor price for the asset.

If you're not familiar with this saga, what, 15 years ago, Hulu began as an experiment between a consortium of many different media companies, the idea was simple.

Maybe we should try our hand at this streaming video thing.

Now at long last, Hulu will be wholly owned by one of the partners in the Consortium Disney.

Quoting the New York Times.

Comcast triggered the deal as part of a put call agreement between the companies in 2019. The ultimate price will be

determined by an appraisal process that will drag into next year.

Comcast, which recently stopped supplying Hulu with shows like Saturday Night Live

and The Voice,

rewriting them instead to its Peacock streaming service, said in September that it had

sped up negotiations to sell Hulu to Disney.

Previously, Comcast and Disney agreed that Comcast could force Disney to buy its

stake early next year, therefore the put.

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