I'm Andrew Osorkin and this is Squawk Pod.

Barry Diller has shaped the media world for more than half a century, redefining television,

launching networks, and backing bold ideas long before they were safe bets.

Netflix, Amazon and Apple controlled the entertainment business.

They have, I don't know, what would you say, a hundred times the resources of these legacy

companies, and they're in control.

They ain't given it up.

On this bonus podcast, The Deals, the Stories, the Man, Barry Diller.

Reactions have been, I mean, they've been incredibly nice and positive in all of those things.

But I do see in, not in the little beadiness of people's eyes, but I do see they look at me like,

I now know you.

You're going to hear from my one-on-one sit-down with Diller and from his appearance on the

Squack Box set with me and my colleague Becky Quick.

Squawk Pod begins right now.

This week, Barry Diller published a memoir.

It tells the life's story of a name familiar to the media industry and our audience here on Squackbox.

This is Diller on our TV broadcast 10 years ago.

It was for a show celebrating 20 years of Squackbox.

You know how I hate to be a contrarian.

I know how much you hate to be a contrarian.

You know, I think the words that we use now, and nothing is of course predictable, but the words we use now, broadcast, cable programming, over the top, they'll all be gone.

Because now, where everything is going to be distributed without question through essentially

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