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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pellett. Just getting the latest quarterly numbers out

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Speaker 1: of the Walt Disney Company. Third quarter adjustin EPs of

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Speaker 1: a dollar sixty two estimates There were for a dollar

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Speaker 1: sixty one third quarter revenue of beat as well, fourteen

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Speaker 1: point three billion estimates there for fourteen point two billion.

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Speaker 1: Digging a little deeper into the third quarter report, media

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Speaker 1: networks revenue five point nine one billion estimates, there were

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Speaker 1: four six billion. Parks and resorts revenue there four point

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Speaker 1: three eight billion estimates four point four two billions. Stay

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Speaker 1: with Bloomberg. We've got more on the Disney story coming

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Speaker 1: up right here on Bloomberg Radio. Also just one additional

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Speaker 1: headline to pass along to you. It is buying a

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Speaker 1: minority stake in BAM Tech SMP up a point today one,

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Speaker 1: a gain there of less than point one percent. Down

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Speaker 1: in US Reels up three, little change there and has

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Speaker 1: Stack Advancing twelve a gain of two tenths of one

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Speaker 1: percent to fifty five Gold up four or fifty out,

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Speaker 1: a gain of three tenths of one percent. I'm Charlie Pellet.

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Speaker 1: That's of Bloomberg Business Flash. This is taking stock with

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Speaker 1: pin Box and Kathleen Hayes on Bloomberg Radio. Disney, the

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Speaker 1: Walt Disney Company, reporting quarterly results that exceeded analysts estimates

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Speaker 1: by a penny. Right now, taking a look at the

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Speaker 1: shares in the after hours trade, they are higher by

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Speaker 1: about one percent. Here to tell us more about Disney

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Speaker 1: and all things media, is Geita Raganathan, technology and media

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Speaker 1: analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, joining us from our office in Princeton,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, and you can follow geta at n gone one. Alright,

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Speaker 1: Keith tell us about Disney. I was looking at the

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Speaker 1: else today and I think the most interesting thing, at

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Speaker 1: least for those that don't know about bam Tech, is

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Speaker 1: that bam Tech, which Disney announced they're taking a third

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Speaker 1: thirte pent steak Um was previously formed by Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball was part of the digital rights business of Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Correct, yes, exactly exactly. I think the most

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Speaker 1: interesting part of this steake by Disney kind of really

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Speaker 1: shows their commitment now towards the whole digital consumption of media,

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Speaker 1: and I think it demonstrates UM that they are willing

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Speaker 1: to take some form of ESPN or at least some

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Speaker 1: content from ESPN and kind of go direct to consumer

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Speaker 1: or kind of have some UM digital offering with that content. UM.

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Speaker 1: So I think that definitely is going to be reassuring

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Speaker 1: to investors. Well, under the terms of the transaction, Disney

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Speaker 1: says is going to pay a billion dollars in two installments,

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Speaker 1: one now and one in January twenty seventeen, and also

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Speaker 1: has the option to acquire majority ownership in the coming years.

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Speaker 1: Does Disney need this, this kind of network, this major

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Speaker 1: league baseball, this band tech that was separated from the

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Speaker 1: broader digital business. Yeah, I think it is going to

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Speaker 1: be instrumental for Disney and kind of launching UM and

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Speaker 1: over the top service, if you will. Disney has kind

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Speaker 1: of really taken a very cautious approach because they get

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Speaker 1: a lot of revenue from their traditional pay TV operators

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Speaker 1: almost nine billion dollars in affiliate fees for ESPN and

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Speaker 1: its sister networks from the traditional operators, so they have

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Speaker 1: to be really careful when they go all out with

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Speaker 1: a digital product. And I think this investment so they've

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Speaker 1: been so they've never really made an announcement to launch

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Speaker 1: and direct consumer product, at least for ESPN content. But

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Speaker 1: this investment kind of shows they're willing to take at

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Speaker 1: least a small step in that direction. And so we'll

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Speaker 1: see how it plays out. And obviously the option for

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Speaker 1: them to go out and acquire the entire unit suggests

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Speaker 1: that they're they're willing to make a bigger commitment. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go through some of the other areas. For example,

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Speaker 1: the Media networks posting income operating income of two point

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Speaker 1: three seven billion. The estate was for two point four billion, right,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm just digging through the numbers here, and

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Speaker 1: it looks like UM as expected. You know, the ad

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Speaker 1: revenues were fine, but then the decline and subscribers kind

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Speaker 1: of is tending to weigh. And this has been a

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Speaker 1: drag on the media networks business ever since Disney spoke

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Speaker 1: about subscriber losses last summer UM and it continues to

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Speaker 1: be an overhang. But I think the bigger, the bigger

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Speaker 1: concern now is going to be the increase in programming

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Speaker 1: costs UM. I mean, Disney has something like about fifty

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Speaker 1: three billion dollars in just sports commitments alone. The big

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Speaker 1: worry for investors really is, you know what happens when

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Speaker 1: affiliate phase kind of level off, but sports costs continue

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Speaker 1: to rise, and that's exactly what we are seeing both

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Speaker 1: in this quarter as well as going into fiscal twenties seventeen,

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Speaker 1: when we're going to see a huge step up in

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Speaker 1: NBA fees. Um. You know, that's almost gonna be at

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Speaker 1: increase in sports rights with the twenty four billion dollar

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Speaker 1: deal that innbated with ESPN and Turner, So I think

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Speaker 1: that is definitely going to be a big source of concern.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that this is one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: why the stock is down eight percent year to date

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Speaker 1: is people are concerned about this spending. Yes, absolutely, I

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Speaker 1: think it's It's been one of the biggest, um biggest,

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Speaker 1: biggest causes for for worry. Um. You know, the sports

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Speaker 1: rights um have been very, very expensive, and Disney has

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Speaker 1: continued to go out and acquire the best of the

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Speaker 1: best content, but then as you know, affiliate fee pressure

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Speaker 1: has been increasing. I mean, investors are really worrying about

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Speaker 1: how they're going to defray those expenses. Well, just to

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Speaker 1: give you more detail on that, bam Tech minority acquisition

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Speaker 1: band Techs roster of sports includes the National Hockey League

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Speaker 1: of obviously Major League Baseball, the p g A Tour,

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Speaker 1: as well as Ice Network, the leading digital platform for

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Speaker 1: professional figure skating. So they're gonna have a lot of

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Speaker 1: sports that they can use over there many different media properties.

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Speaker 1: Well that in any way affect the park and resort business.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think their park and resort

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Speaker 1: business has been, um, you know, a very very steady performer.

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Speaker 1: It contributes about of overall company income. Now, domestic attendance

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Speaker 1: has been slightly weak. Um, it's it's been weakening a

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Speaker 1: little bit. And then there have been you know, there's

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Speaker 1: been some concern who's given all the incidents in in

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Speaker 1: Orlando and and probably you know, weakening trends and attendance

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Speaker 1: international also especially with the events and in Paris and Brussels. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, euro Disney has kind of taken a hit

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Speaker 1: there a little bit. But in the big cat list

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Speaker 1: and I think we'll get more color on this during

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Speaker 1: the call. Has been the launch of Shanghai Disney and

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Speaker 1: that should be a big driver for that segment um

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Speaker 1: going forward. It leads into the next three to five years.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for spending time with us on

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Speaker 1: a day that I know you're looking to get on

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Speaker 1: that conference call. Geta Ranana Thumb. She is the technology

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Speaker 1: and Media analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. Shares of the Walt

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Speaker 1: Disney Company right down, right now are down about a

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Speaker 1: quarter of a percent in after hours trading. Thank you

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