In this country, when one company wants to take over another company, they simply buy up a controlling share of the stock, but first they have to file notice with the government. That's how CCA took over the company that owns this network.

11 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:24:03.147 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Last year, we were the number-four network, next year we're number one!

- We're number one! We're number one! We're number one! We're number one!

- It is exactly 7:00 here in Los Angeles.

- And right now, over a million homes using television in this city are turning their dials to Channel 3 and that's our channel!

- Stop it, stop it! Now you listen to me. And listen carefully because this is your goddamn life I'm talking about today.

- In this country, when one company wants to take over another company, they simply buy up a controlling share of the stock, but first they have to file notice with the government. That's how CCA took over the company that owns this network.

- But now, somebody's buying up CCA. Somebody called the Western World Funding Corporation. They filed the notice this morning.

- Well, just who in the hell is the Western World Funding Corporation? It is a consortium of banks and insurance companies who are not buying CCA for themselves, but as agents for somebody else.

- And who is this somebody else? They won't tell you. They won't tell you, they won't tell the Senate, they won't tell the SEC, the FTC, they won't tell the Justice Department...

- This is Mr. Hackett. Do you have a New York call for me?

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