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It’s Not TV

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Gillette joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers to talk about his new book It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO and discuss the state of streaming, the relationship between sports and advertisers, and the decline of the movie theater industry.

 

In the Plus segment: YouTube.

 

Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the It's Not TV episode of Sleep Money. Your guide to the business

0:18.6

and finance of it turns out this week the entertainment industry. I'm Felix Salmon

0:24.8

of Axios. I'm here with my colleague Emily Peck. Hello, hello. I'm here with Elizabeth

0:29.6

Spies. Hello. And we have another Felix. The best Felix on the show this week.

0:36.3

Alright. Felix Gillette introduced yourself. I'm Felix Gillette. I'm the other Felix in

0:41.9

the media that does business stuff. I sometimes answer Felix Salmon's email and phone calls

0:48.1

inadvertently. It has happened over the years. I work at Bloomberg. I'm a writer and editor

0:52.9

Bloomberg and co-author with my friend John Copeland of The New York Times of It's Not TV,

1:00.5

The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO. We're going to talk about HBO a lot.

1:07.2

We are going to talk about the rest of the entertainment industry. We're going to talk

1:10.2

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

1:20.4

and boxing. We're going to talk about PewDiePie and YouTube in the State Plus segment. We're

1:26.3

going to talk about sexism and the numbers around. We have a bunch of stuff to get through.

1:30.5

And of course, because we have to, we're going to talk about Guper Mordok quite a lot.

1:34.5

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1:49.0

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1:59.8

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