Viacom vs. Disney vs. Turner: Who's Really Milking?

[kev]

Viacom - Once with CBS, Viacom owns channels like MTV, Nickelodeon, and more. In the summer of 2012, about a week before the premiere of sport-related new episodes of SpongeBob, during contract negotiations over raising carrier rates the U.S. satellite TV provider, DirecTV's executives approached Viacom with a new proposal and a request to continue broadcasting 17 of Viacom's television networks (including Nickelodeon, MTV, Logo, and Comedy Central) during talks, but received no response and thus Viacom ceased transmission to DirecTV's 20 million subscribers. On July 11, in a counter response to DirecTV advising its subscribers to view original programming from the affected networks online, Viacom scaled back access to recent episodes of Viacom-owned program content available to the websites of its networks. Viacom described this as a "temporary slimdown" until a new carriage deal with DirecTV was reached. Viacom and DirecTV reached an agreement on July 20 to return the interrupted programming.

Disney - What makes me hate Disney so much is their need to make movies that is just for the money. Nothing else. The movie is just a sorry excuse to buy merchandise. For example, Planes, Planes. Oh, did I forget to mention Planes? Also, The production for Toy Story 2 was rushed into a time period of 9 months to make. Before the 9 month period, Pixar have already finished most of the sequel, but Disney was rushing up the production of the film. The staff at Pixar were not happy by the pace of the production, so the studio had to rewrite the WHOLE story AGAIN.

Turner - Owner of Cartoon Network and what not. Too lazy for this one.

Discuss about which company mostly milks the cow. All info goes to Wikipedia.

[Doctor Sex]

You act like all kids entertainment company's actually try to make quality stuff instead of money

[Metal Snake]

1. Every entertainment company's primary goal is money.

2. Wikipedia is hardly a reliable source.

3. No one cares.

 

Just my critique.

[terminoob]

Also, The production for Toy Story 2 was rushed into a time period of 9 months to make. Before the 9 month period, Pixar have already finished most of the sequel, but Disney was rushing up the production of the film. The staff at Pixar were not happy by the pace of the production, so the studio had to rewrite the WHOLE story AGAIN.

 

Disney initially envisioned the film as a direct-to-video sequel and Toy Story 2 began production in a building separated from Pixar and was much smaller scale, with most of the main Pixar staff working on A Bug's Life (1998). When story reels proved promising, Disney upgraded the film to theatrical release, but Pixar was unhappy with the film's quality. Lasseter and the story team re-developed the entire plot in one weekend. Although most Pixar features take years to develop, the established release date could not be moved and the production schedule for Toy Story 2 was compressed into nine months.

 

Bolded the parts you need to read.

 

All info goes to Wikipedia.

[Steel Sponge]

(Wow, we REALLY do not like Planes.)

 

It goes simply. A company decides on a franchise to make money out of. If it succeeds economically, they decide to have the employees make more of the franchise. If it fails economically, they ditch the individual franchise to start a new one to see if it can be a economical success or failure and then repeat. Do you get what I'm saying here?

 

Spoiler

If some/most of you don't, then FML.

 

Under my standards, my option to pick is all three of them, but there are more companies lurking in the mists that could be considered as "cow milkers," or apparently all companies in general.

[Moar Boy]

Definitely Viacom, compared to other they're the biggest a-hole.

Take Youtube for example, see how many videos they taken down for slightly mentioning one of their franchise? Too many to count.

[Steel Sponge]

Definitely Viacom, compared to other they're the biggest a-hole.

Take Youtube for example, see how many videos they taken down for slightly mentioning one of their franchise? Too many to count.

 

Let's not forget Cartoon Network...

And Disney Channel...

And most recently joining the party, Hasbro.

 

Anything that's a violation to copyright, such as putting up full episodes, is a violation to Youtube.

[terminoob]

Let's not forget Cartoon Network...

And Disney Channel...

And most recently joining the party, Hasbro.

 

Anything that's a violation to copyright, such as putting up full episodes, is a violation to Youtube.

 

Let's just abolish copyright laws. That way people stop hating Viacom for doing their job.

[Sweat]

Honestly, I'm not even mad for Viacom taking down some stuff, but wouldn't be SpongeBob be enough of an icon that it doesn't matter when footage of SB episodes are put in YT videos?