Hello and welcome to the It's Not TV episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance

of It turns out this week, the entertainment industry. I'm Felix Simon the Vaxios I'm here with

my colleague Emily Peck hello I'm here with Elizabeth Spires and we have

another Felix, the best Felix on the show this week.

Felix Gillette, introduce yourself.

I'm Felix Gillette, I'm the other Felix in the media that does business stuff. I sometimes

answer Felix Sammons email and phone calls inadvertently. It has happened over

the years. I work at Bloomberg. I'm a writer and editor Bloomberg and co-author. the

work at Bloomberg I'm a writer and editor Bloomberg and co-author with my friend John Copeland of the New York Times of

It's Not TV the spectacular rise revolution and future of HBO.

We are going to talk about HBO a lot.

Are we going to talk about the rest of the entertainment industry?

We're going to talk about whether Max is a better name than Felix or HBO.

We're going to talk about the NFL and boxing, we're going to talk about puti pie in YouTube in the state plus segment

we're going to talk about sexism in the numbers round we have a bunch of stuff to

get through and of course because we have to we're going to talk about

Rupert Murdoch quite a lot it's all coming up on slate money.

So seeing as how you've just published an entire book about HBO, why not start with HBO?

Yeah.

Which is it true that HBO Max is going to be rebranded as just Max?

I think that is true.

That's what I've been hearing, just Max.

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