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From Wondery, this is Business Wars Daily.

I'm David Brown, and it's Monday, July 16th.

HBO has been having a tough month.

Not only is its future, once again, up in the air with the Justice Department's appeal of AT&T's purchase of HBO's parent company,

but its new would-be owner, AT&T, wants HBO to drastically up the quantity of its original content,

to be more like longtime rival Netflix.

AT&T also wants HBO to expand its subscriber base, you know, more eyeballs, more customer data,

and of course, more advertising dollars. And AT&T is hoping more profits, too. HBO made $6 billion in revenue last year not

quite good enough for its new would-be parent. Over the last several years, HBO's been

capitalizing on the wild success of Game of Thrones to attract new subscribers,

but Game of Thrones is ending next year.

At the same time, Netflix has been raking in profits by creating a broad lineup of original content.

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