David Zaslav Doesn’t Care About Your Favorite HBO Shows

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Matt is joined by Julia Alexander from Parrot Analytics and Puck to discuss the vanishing of television shows on the HBO Max platform. They discuss Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s quest to save and make as much money as possible, what we can expect from HBO moving forward, and the expectation consumers hold for the content on their favorite streaming services. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Julia Alexander Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mac Jones is ripped.
0:02.6	The Celtics may actually trade for Kevin Durant,
0:04.9	and The Ringer has a new Boston show.
0:06.8	I'm Brian Barrett,
0:07.6	host of Off the Pike,
0:08.8	the show covering all things Boston sports.
0:11.3	I'll have shows multiple times a week
0:12.9	covering your favorite teams
0:14.1	and with your favorite ringer and local guests.
0:16.1	Plus, maybe Bill will stop by to rant about the socks.
0:19.4	Follow Off the Pike with me, Brian Barrett, now on Spotify.
0:25.1	It is Wednesday, August 24th.
0:27.8	If you're an HBO Max superfan like I am,
0:30.7	you may have noticed that a few shows and movies have disappeared from the service recently.
0:34.9	Actually, you probably didn't notice.
0:36.5	These were about 35, 36, little-known series and films,
0:40.5	like 12 dates of Christmas, about last night,
0:43.9	Ellen's Next Great Designer, Generation,
0:46.7	an HBO show I did actually watch,
0:48.7	Esme and Royal, Little Ellen,
0:51.9	not exactly House of the Dragon.
0:53.8	So what's going on here?
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