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WSJ Minute Briefing

Customer Cancellations for Disney+ and Hulu Rose Following Kimmel Suspension

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Plus: U.S. officials head to Israel in an attempt to shore up the fragile cease-fire in Gaza. And Molson Coors eliminates roughly 400 positions in a restructuring effort. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

0:04.0

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

0:10.0

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain? By performing a

0:21.6

skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused. Being blind

0:26.3

to those gaps is the real miss. Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully

0:31.8

cultivate talent. Here's your midday brief for Monday, October 20th. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

0:43.9

Customer cancellations for both Disney Plus and Hulu rose in September after Disney briefly suspended the ABC late-night show, Jimmy Kim alive.

0:52.8

That's according to Antenna, a subscription analytics company.

0:56.5

At Disney Plus, the cancellation rate rose to 8% from 4%. Hulu's rate rose to 10% from 5%.

1:03.5

Celebrities like Cynthia Nixon and Howard Stern had encouraged people to cancel Disney Plus

1:08.3

subscriptions after Kimmel's suspension. For many other

1:11.3

streaming services, cancellation rates held pretty steady last month. President Trump's special

1:16.8

envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner arrived in Israel today in hopes of keeping

1:21.8

the fragile Gaza ceasefire and peace process on track, following recent exchanges of fire between Hamas and Israel,

1:28.9

U.S. officials said.

1:30.6

Vice President J.D. Vance is also due to arrive tomorrow.

1:34.0

The Israeli military said it had launched strikes against dozens of Hamas targets over the weekend

1:38.5

after two of its troops were killed in an attack.

1:41.7

Scirmishes continued on Monday.

1:43.7

Hamas denied involvement in the Sunday

1:45.3

attacks and suggested rogue militants were responsible. Molson-Cores is eliminating about 400-salaried

1:52.2

positions across its America's business, or about 9% of the unit's workforce. The company said

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