Vince open to WWE sale Senate panel’s screw-up

WWE’s Vince McMahon isn’t eager to sell the family-controlled enterprise, but he will entertain offers.

“We’re open to anything,” the pro wrestling czar said when asked if takeover interest in content companies such as UFC and Time Warner had relaxed his go-it-alone policy.

Robert Routh of FBN Securities took McMahon’s comments — made Thursday during an earnings call — to mean WWE may finally be recep- tive to being acquired. Any suitor, however, would have to let WWE “control its destiny,” he said.

WWEstock tumbled before McMahon’s comments, falling 9 percent in the morning, when the company said third-quarter operating profit rose 4.7 percent, to $24.5 million, on a slight revenue fall.

Shares closed up 4 cents. The WWE Network saw 24 percent subscriber growth. Richard Morgan

What’s in a name? Plenty, when you’re the Senate antitrust subcommittee bringing CEOs in to testify.

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee is planning to hold a hearing on Dec. 7 on the proposed $85 billion merger of communications giants AT&T and Time Warner and its impact on consumers.

The problem was when the Senate panel accidentally invited Time Warner Cable’s former CEO, Rob Marcus, instead of Jeffrey Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner, which owns HBO, CNNand Warner Bros. Time Warner Cable no longer exists since it was swallowed up by Charter Communications earlier this year.

“Both Randall Stephenson, the CEO of AT&T, and Robert Marcus, the CEO of Time Warner, will testify,” the press release said.

Shortly after, the subcommittee sent a corrected release.