Disney wanted to corner the market on sports streaming. A rival blocked them. So Disney bought the rival.
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Posted inPolitics
Democrats Lost the Propaganda War
The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There’s a better way.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Broken Cords
We’re moving toward replacing cable TV with a bundle of streaming networks. Will local and news programming get lost in the transition?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Harbinger in Hollywood
A tattered entertainment industry is hoping to solve its problems with mergers. Will Biden’s aggressive antitrust enforcers force a Plan B?
Posted inWorking in America
What the Writers Won
The Guild’s agreement attempts to restore the elements of the traditional system that made entertainment writing sustainable. It mostly succeeds, with one caveat.
Posted inWorking in America
What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Barbenheimer Reveals the Drastic Choices of Hollywood Executives
The big opening weekend contrasts with everything the studios have been doing for the last couple of decades.
Posted inWorking in America
What’s at Stake in the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back.
Posted inWorking in America
Unions Are Trying to Save Hollywood From Its Own Foolish Executives
Left to their own devices, the CEOs will ruin the American film and TV industry.
Posted inTAP
Pickets on the Fourth in the City of Angels
Today on TAP: The Los Angeles summer of strikes is a declaration of independence.
