Slate Money - It’s Not TV
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4.2 • 2K 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. All right. |
| 0:37.6 | Felix Gillette, introduce yourself. I'm Felix Gillette. I'm the other Felix in the media |
| 0:42.3 | that does business stuff. I sometimes answer Felix Salmon's email and phone calls inadvertently. |
| 0:49.1 | It has happened over the years. I work at Bloomberg. I'm a writer and editor Bloomberg |
| 0:53.7 | and co-author with my friend John Copeland of the New York Times of It's Not TV, the spectacular |
| 1:01.2 | rise, revolution, and future of HBO. We're going to talk about HBO a lot. We're going to talk |
| 1:07.7 | about the rest of the entertainment industry. We're going to talk about, you know, whether |
| 1:12.3 | Max is a better name than Felix or HBO. We're going to talk about the NFL and boxing. |
| 1:21.6 | We're going to talk about PewDiePie and YouTube in the state plus segment. We're going to |
| 1:26.4 | talk about sexism in the numbers round. We have a bunch of stuff to get through. And of course, |
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