Just month afterlaunching a tentpole servicethat touts Crunchyroll as one of its premium offering , AT&T may be exploring a sale of the gum anime streaming belongings .
adduce beginning familiar with the matter , the InformationreportedWednesday that AT&T is wait to sell Crunchyroll to Sony — a spate that ’s reportedly being held up by AT&T ’s exceptionally high asking price of $ 1.5 billion . The report postdate anearlier articlefrom the Information publish in May that such a sales event was being explore . It ’s a deal that to some degree make sense , given AT&T’sastronomical debt load . But it ’s unclear what this would entail for its jacket jewel , the HBO Max service it launched in May — which relies on Crunchyroll for some content .
Both AT&T and Sony slump to comment on the rumour bargain when reached for scuttlebutt on Wednesday .
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harmonise to the Information , AT&T is attend to offload non - core property to cancel some of its strong debt . In June , CNBCreported that AT&T was consider a sales event of its Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment gaming division , perhaps for as much as $ 4 billion . The Information cited the caller ’s debt marrow at around $ 151 billion . Anything help , I hazard .
But it does seem odd that a troupe would tout Crunchyroll as a fringe benefit of the service only to abridge it entirely just month after launch . I ’m no primary executive , but it does n’t take a whizz to cypher out that this does not reckon specially great for AT&T , especially on the bounder of the bloodbath at DC Comics . By all indication , this is a caller in crisis musical mode .
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