Hello everybody it is Friday April the 22nd this is your post daily new show I am John

Pollock and today we are going to be discussing the future of cable the future of streaming

and by the time this video is over you are going to know what the answers are in all of

those key categories because we have the man himself joining us from Russell nomics headquarters

in upstate New York Brandon Thurston of Russell nomics is with us. Hello Brandon. Hello

I'm coming to you live from the mobile Russell nomics studio broadcast booth. You're right.

Yes. Yes.

Glad to see you John.

This is a landmark event here with with Brandon joining us on wheels as we speak and we

have lots to go through because as I've been following this netfoot story this week I

definitely thought a Brandon Thurston immediately that I wanted to talk about with that but before

we get to the future of streaming Brandon let's go over just a couple of notes coming out of the

past 24 hours starting off at the dynamite numbers they were up against the NBA playoffs this week

they did go against those play in games last week but this week down 5% in viewership and down

just a percentage in 18 to 49 I would say that you know finishing below or above everything

outside of the NBA I thought they were going to be hit a lot harder than they were on Wednesday

did you have any solid thoughts on this past Wednesday's number was this in line with what you

expected and do you think that they might hold up better this year against the NBA playoffs with

what they have to present. I mean this is a fine number for them you know the two NBA playoff

games that were on TNT Turner competing with itself that's right we're number one and number two

on all of if you include broadcast prime time beat everything on broadcast as well and so did

the inside the NBA episode that was on right after the late game so I mean in the Russell

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