One house, many windows
The modern media company is based on the notion of offering one piece of content to different audiences. But, as our fifth merger brief, on the union of Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System shows, combining media folk is like herding cats. Will the latest deal, with AOL, be different?
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This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “One house, many windows”
Briefing August 19th 2000
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