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The Business

Marketing Movies Interactively, Producing for Cable v NBC

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, how Warner Brothers used interactive tricks to power a surprisingly strong opening weekend for Where the Wild Things Are. Plus television writer/producer Dan Harmon toiled in basic cable on Comedy Central and VH1.  Now, as creator of NBC's Community he tells us how the game is different on a big broadcast network. And, as always, the Hollywood news banter.

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:06.3

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

0:12.0

Everybody takes his own business, business, really, really, all white life.

0:17.8

He doesn't clean, please.

0:19.5

What's with him?

0:20.4

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

0:22.9

This week on the business, how Warner Brothers used interactive tricks to power a surprisingly

0:28.0

big opening weekend for the film Where the Wild Things Are.

0:31.6

Plus, TV writer-producer Dan Harmon toiled in Basic Cable on Comedy Central and VH1.

0:37.4

Now, as creator of NBC's community, he lets us in how the game is different on a big broadcast network.

0:43.3

But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.

0:45.5

Stay close. It's the business from KCRW.

0:49.8

You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money.

0:55.3

What's with him?

0:56.8

I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood.

1:00.0

I'm joined in the studio by the business guest banterer, John Horn of the L.A. Times, and I'll just say at the outset here, John, don't worry about me. I have a little bit of a cold, but I'm getting better.

1:08.6

As long as it's not swine flu.

1:10.4

Apparently not. So let's talk's not swine flu. Apparently not.

1:11.8

So let's talk about our friends at NBC. Jeff Gaspin, the newish chairman of NBC, has been out on the town

1:20.9

spreading a new message. He is not managing for margins, as his predecessor, Ben Silverman said. He's

1:25.9

actually managing for ratings. They actually

1:28.9

wanted to, they decided at NBC that they want to put on shows that people watch.

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