AT&T's stock is up 35% in 2024 after CEO John Stankey reversed course in 2022 and spun off Warner Bros. and DirecTV, and plans to return $40B+ to shareholders
Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal :
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
AT&T CEO says HBO Max now has 12.6M subscribers in the US, up from 8.6M at the end of Q3; ~30% of HBO subscribers have exercised their right to access HBO Max
Dade Hayes / Deadline : Tweets: @thr See also Mediagazer Tweets: @thr : WarnerMedia's HBO Max has reached about 12.6 million activated users, AT&T CEO John Stankey said and defended the decision to b...
Inside WarnerMedia's transition to streaming: current and former execs say it was marred by rushed decision making, culture clashes, HBO brand confusion, more
- CNBC spoke with more than a dozen former and current WarnerMedia executives to gauge how John Stankey and Jason Kilar are progressing with HBO Max.
Inside WarnerMedia's transition to streaming: current and former execs say it was marred by rushed decision making, culture clashes, HBO brand confusion, more
- CNBC spoke with more than a dozen former and current WarnerMedia executives to gauge how John Stankey and Jason Kilar are progressing with HBO Max.
AT&T says it is considering offering wireless phone plans partially subsidized by advertising as soon as a year from now
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc is considering offering wireless phone plans partially subsidized by advertising as soon as a year from now, Chief Executive John Stankey said in an interview on Tuesday.
Profile of AT&T's blunt new CEO John Stankey, a company veteran facing dire challenges at the largest US telco and pay TV provider, even if HBO Max is a big hit
Bloomberg :
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to step down, President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to step down, President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1
- AT&T announced CEO Randall Stephenson will retire and President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1. — The transition comes at a tough …
WarnerMedia CEO talks about the challenges of integrating the three silos of Time Warner to achieve his goal of 70M subs for AT&T's upcoming streaming service
what AT&T is trying to do with Time Warner: https://www.cnbc.com/... Jack Rotherham / @jackrotherham : Good read/analysis from @sherman4949. “Somebody in the legacy media space will build a platform o...