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MEDIA BUZZmeter

Best of the 'Media Buzz Meter': Netflix Wins Melodrama for Warner Brothers Discovery But Trump Says He’ll Intervene

MEDIA BUZZmeter

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4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This 'Media Buzz Meter' first aired on December 8th, 2025… Howie Kurtz on President Trump weighing in on Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Marjorie Taylor Greene advocating for the release of Epstein files and her disagreement with President Trump on the issue, and the dismissal of journalist Olivia Nuzzi from Vanity Fair. Follow Howie on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@HowardKurtz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

0:07.0

Let's face it, Netflix rules the world.

0:10.0

I mean, it is not only this unbelievably successful, giant corporation.

0:16.0

It has changed the way we view what I'll loosely call television because it's television,

0:21.8

it's movies, it's clips.

0:24.4

90 million about subscribers, people pay money to sit in their homes and watch sports,

0:32.3

movies, original series, and all of that.

0:35.0

Now, of course, Netflix basically created from scratch the streaming

0:39.8

television business. And if you needed any further proof of that, look at its victory in a $72

0:47.4

billion deal to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. Now, if a lot of these corporate names don't mean that

0:53.4

much to you, I mean, Warner Brothers Discovery, it's if a lot of these corporate names don't mean that much to you,

1:01.6

I mean, Warner Brothers Discovery, it's CNN, it's TNT, it's movies. I mean, it is a giant colossus. And, you know, remember the days of Blockbuster? Talk about missing the waves.

1:07.7

You know, just, you would go to the store and browse and you'd have to take

1:11.8

the VHS home and then you had to send it back and if you were late, you got charged a fee.

1:18.3

I mean, Blockbuster, I mean, it seems like I'm talking about, you know, the 1800s, but that was

1:24.1

what we all used to do. But Blockbuster missed the digital revolution.

1:29.6

Now, you might think, with all the other bidders who wanted to swallow Warner Brothers' discovery,

1:37.1

that this is it.

1:38.1

Netflix came along and Netflix won.

1:41.1

But as with everything in the corporate world, the media world, the political world,

1:45.6

there is more to it. And the latest on this is the president of the United States telling reporters

1:52.2

last night that the Netflix deal, quoting Trump's words, could be a problem.

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