From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

It reminds me of that scene in Fantasia where, you know, you're trying to bail out the room,

but the water keeps filling up. There's that whole challenge of, like, how do you balance new

and old? And that is not an easy balance in any business.

With a flood of new streaming services set to launch and the industry in upheaval,

we go deep with opinionated

analyst Rich Greenfield. He says massive media companies all want hits on all platforms and it

ain't going to be easy. Greenfield tells us why he thinks you, the customer, ultimately are better off

without the cable bundle, no matter how many subscriptions to streaming services you

may have to buy. But first on the banter, Ronan Farrow versus NBC News. Stick around. It's the

business from KCRW. I am joined by my buddy in banter, Matt Bellany of The Hollywood Reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So there's an inferno underway.

Ronan Farrow's book on what happened to his Harvey Weinstein story in part about that at NBC News, something many people have been wondering for a long time.

That book is about to be out, but there are excerpts that we had one at the Hollywood

reporter, and various other media outlets are picking up aspects of what's in this book. The stuff

about NBC News, if you believe everything that Ronan Farrow is saying, is very damning. He basically

says they slow walked his story to death, and he creates a case. He doesn't have an absolute

smoking gun

proof that they were being held hostage in a way by Harvey Weinstein and his allies because of

dirt about Matt Lauer. And of course, there is a rape allegation against Matt Lauer in this book,

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