hey everybody how you doing it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce good to
see you welcome to my daily daily number 16 here we go 10 and 5 and 160 or like
this 60 60 daily December the 14th 2017 wow I'm I marvel at how these are just
coming one after the other one happens it's crazy
welcome aboard welcome to my channel called traveling with Bruce if you have
never seen me before I hope you're not too shocked I have a channel on YouTube
that's now 44 months and 2 days old 99 subscribers just hit 99 this morning if
you're a regular not you newbies but if you're a regular and even watch me last
little while you know I've been doing the countdown for the last week week and
a half of what get into 100 now we were in there like 81 and then we got to 83
and 84 well yesterday we're at 95 96 videos and I'm thinking oh no
subscribers 95 96 subscribers woke up this morning took a look at boom we're
at 99 can't believe it this is fantastic one to go one to go and we're at a
hundred fantastic so if you're new to the channel and you'll like it
you could be my 100 subscriber just hit the button there's a subscribe button
right there there's another subscribe button there
they're everywhere you can't miss them and that would be fantastic I'll hit the
triple digits apparently I get a congratulation email from from YouTube
hahaha but they acknowledge my existence not that they don't already but you know
it's nice to make it accomplishments and they tell me that the analytics kick in
there's there's a few things that happened and I might be able to hit more
viewers and more arm presence on the channel and I can grow even faster and
we will I I'm not happy just stopping at 100 where you got to go a long long way
if I'm gonna make a living doing this I hate subscribers and viewers so in
that I got to give you something to watch and today I have a story for you
that I hope you'll find interesting I have talked about this a little bit in
the past I did a video about ten dailies ago the number six daily check it out
after you watch this the number six daily had to do with ABC television and
Disney how in 1954 Walt Disney was trying to raise enough money to build
Disneyland in Anaheim the original Disneyland and he had this concept than
this idea that he had in his head for over a decade and by 1953-54 he had a
design that had it figured out and he was gonna put the money together he had
ten million bucks that he needed of the 15 million he needed at that time and he
need five million more to make it and he had one asset left that he had mortgaged
to the hilt because he had mortgaged the entire company to the hilt for the 10
million he had already he needed five million more or he couldn't do it he had
one asset left and that was the wonderful world of Disney television
show that was on Sunday nights at that time on ABC the jr. Network the network
that was the puny little guy CBS NBC we're monsters and ABC was this puny
little Network and they had the show they needed to renegotiate rights to get
the show again and they did and they put together a five million dollar deal with
Walt Disney to get the rights to that show and is they had that money to build
Disneyland and look at it today so today I want to give you an overview of the
entire company because this morning the news came out that had been rumored for
a few months now and the deal had been con
summated put my glasses on so I can properly read my notes the deal had been
consummated between Walt Disney or the Disney Company and 21st Century Fox and
the deal is 50 billion dollars 50 billion dollars in stock that Disney is
going to issue to shareholders of the 21st Century Fox corporation and they're
going to buy basically the entire studio side and the entertainment side of Fox
and and 21st century huge deal and it's going to be a massive number of assets
it won't include the TV stations or Fox News that will stay inside Fox so the
Fox Company is going to be sort of split into two pieces
a big chunk will go to Disney and the other chunk will stay where it is under
the Rupert Murdoch family control but this deal has been announced today and
now we'll have to see when this you know as this closes it'll take a year in the
meantime I got some notes here as I did some research this morning and I thought
I'd give you folks a little history how did Disney ever get the as big as they
are and it all started in 1923 Walt Disney himself founded his company 94
years ago in California and as we've heard those you don't know he started
off as a little studio producing a little cartoons and vignettes and
eventually Mickey Mouse and then Donald Duck and Goofy and like the cartoons and
then Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella the movies and Fantasia and
it just went on and on and on became a large outfit course in 54 55 he created
Disneyland in Anaheim the company today 195 thousand employees one hundred
ninety five thousand employees there are employees around the world of course the
revenues and in 2016 the last year they had to report 55 billion dollars in
revenues American money that's real dollars total assets before the Fox deal
96 billion in total assets under control 14 theme parks around the world they
operate down and they have four divisions Disney has four divisions
basically Walt Disney Studios Walt Disney's Parks
and Resorts the Walt Disney media networks and the Disney consumer
products those are the four divisions the the media side of it includes ABC
now I told you in in video number daily number six you can see the whole story
about ABC and Disney and putting Disneyland together
that's where ABC helped Disneyland or Disney well in 1995 40 years later
Disney Company bought ABC and now ABC is a wholly owned subsidiary company of the
Walt Disney monster machine the ABC broadcast network included assets like a
any television network ESPN sports they've had problems with it but still
pretty big Disney networks and on the internet side they own Hulu and we've
all heard of Hulu checking out different video clips and that type of thing
that's all part of the ABC Family in 1999 four years after they bought ABC
Disney picked up their own Cruise Line they had been making they had been
allowing some of their licensed characters on a small cruise line out of
Florida for a few years and that deal eventually ended however it end I don't
really know how it ended but it was a small cruise line and Disney approached
Carnival and I think another Cruise Line might have been Royal Caribbean to talk
about a deal maybe there's a way to put Disney characters on on some of the
carnival ships or some of the Royal Caribbean ships and discussions went on
for like a couple of years and a deal couldn't be struck between the companies
for whatever reason and so Disney decided you know maybe there's a way we
can merge our theme park in somehow with a cruise situation and we'll just create
our own cruise line company called Disney cruises and so they launched
Disney cruises in 1999 with two ships at the time here we are today 2017 they've
got four ships now going and they have three more being built right now and
these are going to be 4,000 4,500 their ships each these are huge and
there is a big move going on by Disney into the cruise business do not be
surprised that they keep expanding this division they will merge theme park
stays hotel stays cruise vacations all into one package for you weddings
onboard kids birthday parties graduations oh my gosh and then of
course there are people my age sorry I'm checking my hair there are people my age
I'm 62 I grew up with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck now I myself might not go on
a cruise for that for myself but my daughter is 29 30 years old and there
might be something coming down the pike down the way next year two or three and
grandpa might be then going on the Disney cruise with the kids the
grandkids so grandma too don't forget her oh man maybe grandma will go and
won't take grandpa anyway that's what's happening with the Disney Cruise Line
unbelievable in 2006 Disney bought Pixar Steve Jobs founder of Apple created
Pixar and Pixar did the Toy Story movies and others very successful and Disney
bought Pixar for seven point four billion dollars that was the biggest
deal after they bought ABC Steve Jobs took stock for that deal and it made
Steve Jobs a 7% owner of Disney at that time he was for a few years the largest
single individual shareholder of the corporation
mutual funds and other investment funds have as much or more but he had 7% as a
private citizen of Disney unbelievable that was in 2006 three years later in
2009 Disney bought Marvel Entertainment for 4.2 million a four point two billion
dollars go talk billions now 4.2 billion and they got spider-man and they got the
the you know all these characters Avengers Avengers and well you know you
know Marvel I mean has that been successful oh man
it's worth more than 4.2 billion now two years after that they started
construction Shanghai Neal and 4.4 billion dollars to build
Shanghai Disneyland Wow 2012 Disney bought lucasfilm's all the Star Wars
franchise rights everything four billion dollars they added to that and now today
50 billion dollars to acquire fox entertainment division so the company is
gone from 96 billion in value to 140 600 let's call it 150 billion what why Beach
NC 150 billion dollar value when this deal closes probably in the next year on
real what a growth story and don't expect this to end they'll be more you
you you either you know you either stay the size you are and shrink or you you
just get bigger and become more dominant and I think that's the way it's going
with Disney that Chris certainly on the cruise ship side there's no question
about that but even the cruise ships with seven ships I I would think that
they're worth maybe five six seven billion dollars at that point that 150
it's a small part of the company just think about how big Disney is there are
a member of the Dow 30 industrials have been since 1991 I think it is so they're
one of the biggest 30 in the in the United States 195,000 employs my
goodness and now add these employees from Fox I don't know how many they're
gonna acquire 20,000 more 30,000 don't know how many people work for Fox
Entertainment will hear all those numbers later anyway there's a story for
you on the 16th daily on December the 14th 2017 the big news release from
Disney talking about / 21st century fox or a good chunk there
up what up what a what a story so listen guys thanks for watching this video
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subscribing to my channel I welcome number 100
I welcome number 110 I welcome subscriber 1000 if I'm around long
enough can we get beyond a thought can I get the 5000 subscribers I have no idea
I'm just going to keep making videos I'm gonna just keep cranking develop for you
if you have any suggestions on any topics you want me to go let me know I'm
happy to do it it's it's exciting it's rewarding I love
watching these videos do low to that pen and I just love watching again watch i
watch the meter and I just see the numbers of views picking up the thinking
of it's fantastic and I have you to thank for that out
there I have about 10 subscribers that I know personally I don't know the rest of
you guys I don't know you and I'm just amazed at how many have come on board
it's four months and two days since I started this channel we're at 99
subscribers and we're goal for a hundred and beyond thank you very much
I will see you next time when I do my next daily tomorrow and in the mean time
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