Scott Galloway

The reality is if the economists I talked to say that it's hard to

It's hard to say these guys have a monopoly when you look at the fact that the combined viewership still won't rival YouTube's.

When you look at the revenue, it's nowhere near what the revenue is for the media companies, the tech media companies we talk about.

So you can accuse them of overpaying.

I had a chill run down my spine over the weekend when

I read that Mark Thompson is being considered as the manager they need to come in for CBS News.

But it just all of a sudden, it sent a chill down my spine.

I'm like, what?

The Ellison's own CNN?

It hadn't fully dawned on me.

Yes, I could tell you.

From a straight regulatory standpoint, there was really no, in my opinion, valid reason to block it.

By the way, I've switched on that.

I was worried about the consolidation of media, but when you include competitors around watch time, revenues, there really wasn't an economic argument.

Now, in terms of mergers, you're going to see a flurry of them because anyone who's thinking,

maybe we'd like to buy companies.

They're like, let's do it while the doing is good.

Because if you get a democratic administration in there, you're going to have much more scrutiny around these mergers.

You already see Attorney General's AGs in blue states getting much more excised about this merger than the federal guys.

But it's going through and it'll be really interesting to see