All TV Things Considered; Here Comes Sundance
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The television business is crazier than ever. We try to make sense of it all with two veteran TV journalists. Plus, a look at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival with the fest's new director, John Cooper.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:07.1 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
| 0:12.8 | Everybody takes his own business, really, really, all my life. |
| 0:18.6 | What's with him? |
| 0:21.2 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:24.1 | This week on the business, it seems the always crazy TV business has finally lost it altogether. |
| 0:31.0 | We'll try to make sense of this madness with veteran TV business journalists, Joe Adalien and Michael Schneider. |
| 0:37.5 | Plus, the cinema, the stars, the snow, the deals? |
| 0:41.8 | A look at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival with head honcho John Cooper. |
| 0:46.6 | Stay close. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:52.5 | You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money. |
| 0:57.6 | What's with him? |
| 0:59.1 | Oh, I'm afraid he's going to Hollywood, Hollywood. |
| 1:05.9 | The whole first segment of today's show is really an extended banter about the TV business. You can hardly |
| 1:12.5 | have missed the headlines. The Leno debacle, the big fight over whether Time Warner Cable would |
| 1:17.8 | pay to Carrie Fox, the advent of 3D TV. All these stories are ultimately linked to the fact |
| 1:24.9 | that the TV business is fighting for its future. The viewing audience is scattering and so are advertising dollars. |
| 1:32.3 | After all, there are so many options these days, and if you're a TV executive, how scary is that? |
| 1:39.3 | Today we've brought on a couple of guys who really have their fingers on the thready pulse of the TV business. |
| 1:46.0 | Mike Schneider is TV editor of Variety, and Joe Adalion writes the TV mojo blog for the rap.com. |
| 1:52.6 | Naturally, we start with the fiasco at NBC. |
| 1:55.9 | It looks like Jay Leno will be back at the Tonight Show, and Conan O'Brien is the odd man out. |
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