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Originally Posted by drave
It's never a chance to schmooze. It's opportunity to see who gets to stick around and who's getting throw to the curb.
Always.
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Well yes at the end of the day that's what these meetings are working toward for but schmoozing variably ends up being involved. I've been through a number of acquisitions and invariably you end up with the execs fluffing each other before they hammer out the details of how the relationship is gonna work going forward. Sometimes it happens in the first meeting, a lot of times it doesn't.
Mostly these meetings are about setting a tone and setting up whatever metrics are expected for the acquired property. Somewhat doubt any sort of major decisions will be made off of this meeting alone, provided of course everybody's going into it open minded.
If Discovery's already decided they don't want wrestling on their programming regardless of any potential numbers, that's another story.