"Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is interested in potentially taking the riches her company reaped from the Alibaba IPO and funneling them into cable networks, the report suggests. Yahoo approached SNI at some point in 2014 about purchasing Food Network, and the conversation eventually extended to acquiring the rest of a portfolio that also includes HGTV and Travel Channel. Yahoo may have also approached Time Warner about acquiring CNN. But the report doesn’t suggest that either of these potential acquisitions are still in active discussions." - Eric @ CS Techcast