He's done it in the right way. He's smoothed all the ruffled feathers.
In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,
He did it the honorable, wise and decent way,
Five years from now, we'll have a much better idea of how it will shake out.
It something Disney had to do. It's good for both companies.
It may be a fairly lengthy adjustment process. Steve Jobs is known to be quite active in everything he does - he won't sit back quietly.
They've come through this higher gas price period quite well. They had a very strong marketing program for Disneyland's 50th anniversary. This will be a good indication that as long as gas prices don't go up too much more, that things will be OK over there.
It sounds like they want to capitalize on the ESPN brand, ... There's no reason it could not be done.
It wouldn't be a giant leap of imagination for them to consider selling all of it. Even if they sold all of it, it's not clear that will generate significant stock appreciation for Time Warner.
My impression is that Mr. Murdoch has been in a phase of building assets for most of his career, 25 years or so, and he has reached the point where most of the key pieces are in place,
