4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Making preschool TV: We talk "Sesame Street," Disney Junior and focus groups.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm John Horn, sitting in for Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:07.5 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
0:13.1 | Everybody takes his own business, business really, really, all white life. |
0:19.0 | He doesn't clean. |
0:19.8 | What's with him? |
0:21.6 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
0:23.6 | This week on the business, we take a look at preschool television and what goes on behind the scenes. |
0:30.6 | We talk with decision makers from Disney Jr. and Sesame Street about their thoughts on television's very, very youngest viewers. |
0:38.3 | Plus, we sit in on a focus group for a new television show held in a preschool. |
0:43.3 | But first, the Hollywood News banter. |
0:45.3 | Stick around. |
0:46.3 | It's the business from KCRW. |
0:48.3 | I'm going Hollywood. |
0:50.3 | You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money. |
0:56.8 | I'm joined by Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Michael. Hi, John. So probably the |
1:01.9 | worst kept secret in the TV world for the last several months has been Rupert Murdoch and News Corp's |
1:06.6 | attempts to put together a national sports cable channel, and now that they've gone official. |
1:12.0 | Right. They're calling it Fox Sports One. And yes, this is something that Rupert and his merry band of |
1:16.7 | sports executives have been coveting for years, taking on ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports, |
1:21.8 | of course. And this is big. This is what they've been wanting to do for years. And now we'll see. |
1:26.9 | Yeah, I want to throw out a number that ESPN right now generates about $6 billion. That's with a B in annual revenue. |
1:33.2 | Probably the highest fees charged by any cable channel, about $5.15 for ESPN. Throw in ESPN 2, ESPN 3. You get up to almost $7 per subscriber. |
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