my guest is chris albrecht from starz.gely, each time we speak, twice in the last year there are stories involving your company and consolidation. the latest, a bloomberg story saying you're in talks with amc about getting together. is it true? >> if i had a dollar for every time there was a rumor about starz, you and i could retire. in an industry where people are closely aligned, we all do business together, conversations are going on all the time. that being said, i canthe premi brands, starz one of them, are more valuable than before. people looking to innovate the way tv gets to consumers. >> the talk of consolidation is also one because of perceived weakness. the idea that being amc or starz or lion's gate, scripps, all of these companies need to figure out a way to get together, to exert more power with the carriers and to have more of a presence in the changing landscape. do you believe that? >> yes, i do think that there's a good business rationale for different companies coming together. that's the beginning of a

every name in the book has been bandied about. >> starz is an advertiser.hey advertise power with us and the new patrick stewart show that came out, and advertising hey a remarkable category for me, and that is precisely to the point that he is making which is it's not about the end of television. it's about television delivered in a new way and effectively channels are going away as we've discussed. it's going to be content. i actually was at the conference, and he was at the goldman sachs conference. you had murdock, ryan roberts, other people there as well. ott, ott, ott. even at&t was talking about ott. it's very much a changed world. they are one of the free radicals to use john malone's term, below the big guys. >> are we seeing the beginnings of a new bundle, though? is that what this is all about? we talk about leverage in the age of streaming, but isn't this just people compiling a bunch of content so they can force it down people's throats? >> murdock was on stage talking about rebundle and new types of bundles formed. people don't want to spend $

shares of starz surged initially after close. at the end of regular trading, the stock up more than 1% to 38.79. >>> tyler for airline investors this summer has been one of the best they've ever seen. low fuel costs and high demand helped deliver did the results many hoped for when the largest airline started merging eight years ago. that includes american which has moved one step closer to finishing the integration of us airways nearly 18 months after they merged. phil la bowl reports from american's new center in fort worth, texas. >> if you fly american, odds are somebody in this room at some point will be dispatching or monitoring your flight. american's new flight operation center is now up and running. 1600 employees under one roof handling more than a million flights every year. >> a quarter of these people were working out of pittsburgh and now here in dallas fort worth. we have teams working together. you can't tell the difference where they worked before. we have technology working flawlessly. we did all this without on

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starz owns encore premium channels. target hopes its employees will shape up.here offering fit bit trackers to its workers. the goal is to improve fitness and lower health care costs. those are some of the top headlines where following this morning. coming up, the federal reserve kicks off its much-anticipated today rate meeting today amid soaring global volatility. will janet yellen do anything to calm equities? plus, when you need to watch for in tonight's second republican debate. including which candidate might have the most to gain. and the united states stopped exporting oil 40 years ago. we are not allowed to by law. could be shale boom soon change that? the stories and more coming up on "bloomberg market day." back to beer. anheuser-busch said it intends to make an offer for sab miller. is a megadeal that would bring together the two largest brewers in the world. matt campbell in london. matt, a massive amount of the market -- i was looking on the terminal to see how much revenue these two would account for. matt: it is just gigantic. it would be a very

with all the money he's making on "power" on starz?im publicly because he's kind of intimidating. >> the week long burning man festival ends this weekend. 70,000 people are heading home. the tents were erected across six square miles. they're coming down. so is the unusual artwork erected on the spot. the highlight saturday's burning of a wooden effigy of the man. >> actress susan sarandon this year to scatter the ashes of her friend timothy o'leery and singer katy perry posting this video of her trying to ride a segue despite the desert wind. >> strange images all this week. >> which is not so strange, burning mon. monday. >> they just call it monday. >>> also in "the skinny," erykah badu. this song "on and on" probably one of her most well-known. big fan. but he's also famous for her unique sense of style which kendis, you saw firsthand. >> i was on a flight from l.a. to dallas and ran into this interesting coat as i was getting off the flight. take a look. if you look close up, it says, 'you're the type to ask celebs for selfies.' o

and one of the things that's great about working on starz.tune in. >> this looks gritty. tell us the premise. >> is came from maverick carter and lebron james, who grew up in akron, ohio. now they're on top of the world. maverick carter is -- lebron james is one of his good friends and business partners. they left that place and now are off in the highest of the highs all around the world. and there are people that they can still help back home. and this notion that, when you survive, if you are somebody who survives a plane crash or a ship wreck, why did i succeed? why did i survive and other people perrisish. this happens to athletes who come from a tough background and they leave the circumstances where they grow up. they left poverty and go and succeed. how do they reconcile that? >> make good choices. >> because there's always people that they can help. there's always another person they can throw a life preserver to. scholarships, money, people they can help, constantly. yet they have to go on in their own world and what's that push and

they still control amc that may be in the talks with starz, and also about mad son square garden. people have given him a hard time about the knicks, but they have given us some value. i think he just wants a grammy, and then a stanley cup. >> the mets came back, why are you writing off the knicks? >> i'm already worried, okay? we're up 9.5, now 7.5, i'm getting concerned, jim. >> that is a great segway, jim, but the dream force conference continues after a day of heavy hitters. last night on mad money, i told jim he is optimistic. >> if you want to connect with customers in a new way you come to salesforce. we have climbed through hundreds of thousands of software companies from 16 years ago to become what will be fourth largest in the world and we're still growing at an incredible rate. >> like you say, jim, beware of missing a dip that will look like nothing for a few years ago. >> when we first had oracle on, it was at $5. he saw that people are beginning to hire sales people again. maybe the fed does have to tighten. they're hiring sales people like mad worldwide. but i thoug

also shares of starz getting a boost this morning in talks that they're in talk to buy the network.here's been speculation about a buyout for more than a year now. >> here's what we got. microsoft announcing it would increase it's quarterly dividend by 16% to 36 cents a share. it's up on that news. >> that's interesting. what does it yield now? >> we always like to add a little perspective. >> but we never do. yield now is 2.8%. what did you say? a 16% increase? so that give gets it above 3%. >> through i don't have it. fed ex is increasing it's shipping rates for its ground, freight and express services by 5%. changes are effective in early january. set to post quarterly results before the bell this morning. of course we'll bring you that news and one more stock to watch this morning, united natural foods. shares rising after the natural and organic foods distributor posted better than expected quarterly results. >> seems like the rest of the world is there to some extent. europe seems to be catching up with what happened in china. does anyone believe that? it's a carbon copy, a co

c looking to acquire the movie channel starz? content is king and that's what they're going off.s the land of the walking dead, get that. ge to move u.s. jobs overseas, all about the fight over the export, import bank. still at 25, ge. hewlett-packard will cut up to $30,000 jobs as the company splits. the stock is up 3%. remember, please, it's been down about 25% in the past year. and then we've got fedex. i think that's some kind of an economic barometer, indicator, maybe. it's cut its outlook. tell me, nicole. nicole: they talk about the stocks and lack thereof. they're hiring for the seen, for the holiday season about 55,000 workers. that's less than what ups is hiring and talked about a strong u.s. dollar. if things were flourishing, they'd be beating and raising the outlook. they're not doing that and under pressure today. stuart: they're raising their rates, roughly 5% as of january, i think they're doing that. that doesn't help the stock. stuart: thank you very much indeed. join nicole and lauren simonetti, 5:00. yeah, they get up early. 5 a.m. billionare moment depot bern