From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

Nobody had ever called me creative, and I didn't come from a family where that was a pursuit in and of itself.

It was nice, but that wasn't where you headed.

So the whole thing kind of intrigued me.

J.G. Pritzker was born into billions.

She's a member of the wealthy Chicago Pritzker family, but she didn't plunge headlong into the

movie business. She's produced and helped finance lots of movies, but she'd never done TV until

she started to develop a film based on the life of Albert Einstein and found that it demanded

to be a series. Pritzker's first series, Genius, was also Nat Geo's first scripted program,

and it's in the Emmy race with 10 nominations. She talks about moving from film to TV and explains

what convinced her to sign on to last year's Oscar nominated Western,

Hell or High Water. But first on the news banter, Disney throws down. Stay tuned. It's the

business from KCRW. I'm joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt.

So the big news this past week or so has been Disney's announcement that it is moving to streaming.

They are going to have two services sometime in 2019. One will be sports, but I will note not your NFL or NBA games, at least not yet. The other will be content. Disney, of course, has so much content. Pixar, Disney animation, ABC show, whatever, so much stuff. But it is not clear at this point whether they're including a few minor properties like Star Wars and the Marvel movies.

Having said that, nonetheless, you know, this has gotten everybody paying attention because it feels that the biggest

generator of successful media right now is acknowledging a future that is coming faster than we can sort of seem to digest it.

Yeah, this is huge. This is, I think,

one of the more significant developments of the past five to 10 years in the entertainment

business is Disney finally committing to this because we've already seen other companies dip their

toe in this. CBS has its all-access service and there's a Comcast initiative with FX and some other

networks turning these linear channels into over-the-top networks. But Disney getting into it,

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