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podcast on KCRW's iTunes page. From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business. Star Wars is not the only media story of

2015, though it is a big one. Media stocks got a cold when ESPN sneezed. The continued fallout from

the Sony hack may have made this the year of the woman or not. There was peak TV, including a new crop of late-night hosts,

and a certain politician who has pumped up the ratings wherever he goes.

It's a mega-news banter year-in review this week on the business from KCRW.

I'm here with my regular banter partners, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter and Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine.

Hello, fellows.

Hello.

Hi there.

So, the year that was, let's start with, well, an after effect, I would say, of the Sony hack, where it was revealed that Jennifer Lawrence was making less money than her co-stars in American Hustle, right?

And significantly less. And that seemed to start a boulder rolling. And the boulder had to do with the underrepresentation of women in the industry in front of and behind the camera.

Yeah, I mean, it's the interesting thing is how much that started from just, you know,

a piece of paper that was leaked in a hack to by the end of 2015, we have, you know,

lifetime guaranteeing jobs to every female graduate of AFI.

And, you know, people coming out of the woodwork saying they're going to actually

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