Jeff Bewkes Says AT&T Went to ‘Such a Level of Malpractice’ in Operating HBO
$85.4 billion mega-deal, one that is about to be unraveled by the pending Discovery-WarnerMedia merger, Bewkes told author James Andrew Miller.In “Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers,” Bewkes says he was assured that following their 2018 merger, AT&T brass “would basically leave our people alone.”That did not happen, he said, according to a Wall Street Journal story on the book, which is not yet available.“We didn’t think they would go to such a level of malpractice as to not listen to anybody…even though they themselves had no experience in those areas,” Bewkes told Miller.Bewkes did not express regret over the decision to sell to AT&T, however, according to WSJ.