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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1998 and the slugfest between Vince McMahon’s WWF and Ted Turner’s WCW is reaching a critical juncture.

McMahon’s on a mission to pull wrestling fans back to his TV shows with a strategy focused on maximum controversy. And to help him in his mission, he’s getting back-up from a high-flying TV executive and a bunch of Wall Street bankers.

WCW chief Eric Bischoff is determined to stop WWF’s comeback at all costs. But he’ll soon discover that his most dangerous enemy isn’t McMahon — it’s the executives on his own team.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Business Wars Add Free on Amazon Music.
0:04.8	Download the app today.
0:07.6	Business is Battle.
0:09.1	On Business Wars, we learn what it takes to win by looking closely at ambitious battles
0:13.8	like the one in our latest series, WWF versus WCW.
0:18.0	And our new book, The Art of Business Wars, gets to the very heart of each conflict,
0:21.8	unearthing all the valuable lessons.
0:23.9	Go to Wondery.com slash the Art of Business Wars to order your copy now.
0:29.5	Join Wondery Plus to listen to Business Wars one week early and add free in the Wondery
0:33.6	app.
0:34.6	Download the Wondery app in your Apple or Google Play mobile app store today.
0:40.0	A listener note, this episode originally aired in 2019.
0:50.8	This episode contains adult content.
0:54.8	It's early 1998 and in a meeting room inside WWF's headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
1:00.3	USA Network Executive Bonnie Hammer checks her watch and frowns.
1:05.2	She's sitting alone waiting for Vince McMahon to show up.
1:08.4	He's 10 minutes late.
1:10.4	It's not a great start.
1:12.8	The blonde, fashionably dressed Hammer is USA's new liaison with the WWF.
1:18.5	Not by choice though.
1:20.3	When they handed her the wrestling brief, her first thought was that her career must be
1:24.1	in trouble.
	...

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