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Gerald M. Levin (May 6, 1939 – March 13, 2024) was an American media businessman. Levin was involved in brokering the merger between AOL and Time Warner in 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble, a merger which was ultimately disadvantageous to Time Warner and described as "the biggest train wreck in the history of corporate America."
Gerald M. Levin, the former CEO of Time Warner who orchestrated its disastrous merger with AOL, died Wednesday. He was 84. Levin’s grandchild Jake Maia Arlow confirmed his death to the New York ...
The failure of the AOL-Time Warner merger is the subject of a book by Nina Munk entitled Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner (2005). A photo of Case and Time Warner's Jerry Levin embracing at the announcement of the merger appears on the cover. In 2005, Case wrote in The Washington Post that "It's now my ...
When Levin died on March 13, though, obituaries primarily remembered him for his central role in the “worst merger in corporate history”: The $350 billion AOL-Time Warner deal, which served as ...
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
By April 27, however, Charter had backed off its opposition to the deal after reaching a deal to acquire a portion of Time Warner Cable's subscribers as part of it. [5] Under the deal, Comcast would acquire Time Warner Cable by exchanging each of Time Warner Cable's current 284.9 million shares for 2.875 shares of Comcast's CMCSA stock. [6]
Richard Dean Parsons (April 4, 1948 – December 26, 2024) was an American business executive, notably the chairman of Citigroup and the chairman and CEO of Time Warner.He had also been the interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the interim chairman of the board for CBS.
The merger of AT&T’s WarnerMedia division with Discovery is the first major media combination of the Biden era, and could give an indication of where the new administration is headed on ...