Michael Nathanson Quotations

No one's figured out what the pricing scheme is going to be.

I would not underestimate their ability to market this franchise, ... I don't think it will move the needle that much at Disney, but it's a good fit for them.

Looking at EBITDA disguises the fact that after capital expenditures, interest income and working capital, there is often little cash left over for equity shareholders,

This stock has come to expect a few-penny beat every quarter ... This was only an in-line quarter.

Time Warner wants a stake in the ground on AOL's valuation, given the debate swirling around Time Warner's sum of the parts valuation.

The deal will be trumpeted so much that the stock will go up.

Those who sell 'archive' product -- as opposed to 'hit' product -- will survive better than those who don't.

Wall Street's mentality is that they don't expect much from 'Chicken Little,'

We want to see real earnings and cash flow.

In the whole scheme of Clear Channel issues, this one is at the bottom of the list. For you and me, $1 million is a lot of money, but not for them.

In the short term, it's going to lead to reduction of the artists on contracts, as it moves to cut unprofitable relationships pretty aggressively, ... Some of that would have happened anyway, but this speeds it up -- you have an owner who just put a lot of cash into it and needs to get some of that cash back out.

They may not have been profitable for a big record company, but they were getting air time and music sales, ... You'll see some very known bands going to self-release of albums, many more independent companies having shelf-space at retail.

There's always a place for actual tactile shopping.