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You're talking about little silly things. The things I don't like are, you know, I've received death threats from the moment this film was announced.

As documentarian Brett Morgan has learned, some Nirvana fans have powerful feelings

just about the mere idea of his new film, Kurt Cobain, montage of heck.

Morgan was astonished when Courtney Love gave him unfettered access to Cobain's notebooks

and recordings.

He tells us why having the cooperation of love and her daughter, Francis Cobain,

doesn't mean that he gave up control.

But first on the news banter, the earth is quaking at one of the country's biggest media empires.

Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my fellow banterer, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael.

Hello, Kim. So, Michael, I'm going to reference a Vanity Fair article that just has come out. This is about a subject that we have been interested in for quite some time, which is Succession at Viacom, Sumner Redstone, 91 years old.

By all accounts, an incredibly feeble health.

Nonetheless, he purportedly emailed that he rides his exercise bicycle and some of his executives said that he's sharp as a tech.

I don't think anyone in Hollywood believes that.

And as this person has become increasingly frail, this issue of who is going to control this behemoth, which is Viacom, Nickelodeon, MTV, Paramount, as well as CBS, who is going to be in charge

of that is really coming into sharper focus. Yeah, and it looks now, according to a CBS filing to the

FCC, that we may know a little bit more than we did before, Sherry Redstone. The daughter of

Sumner Redstone may be in line to become the

chairman of CBS worth $30.7 billion and Viacom worth $27.4 billion. Yeah, there's been this back and forth

between Philippe Damon, who runs the Viacom part of this company. CBS is separate in Viacom with

Paramount and Nickelodeon and MTV and other properties is another entity.

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