THR’s Executive Awards Editor shares Emmy predictions
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The 77th annual Emmy Awards will air this Sunday night (Sept. 14) on CBS and Paramount+ — hosted by a first-timer, comedian Nate Bargatze. Kim Masters is joined by Scott Feinberg, Executive Awards Editor for The Hollywood Reporter, and they’re making predictions.
Plus, money wins? Masters and her partner in Banter Matt Belloni unpack the latest Murdoch family lawsuit… And the increasing possibility of a Paramount Skydance purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:05.1 | Severance or the pit, the bear or the studio. |
| 0:08.4 | The 2025 Emmys are Sunday night, |
| 0:10.7 | and the Hollywood Reporter's Executive Awards analyst Scott Feinberg |
| 0:14.0 | joins us to sort it all out. |
| 0:16.0 | He says picking the winners is especially difficult |
| 0:18.3 | in this unpredictable year. |
| 0:20.1 | Seth Rogan alone can make history this year. |
| 0:23.1 | He would be the first person to win potentially for producing, directing, writing, and lead acting in a comedy series. |
| 0:31.2 | And it's very possible that that could happen. |
| 0:33.6 | Scott gives us the lay of the land and offers a very early glimpse of next year's Oscar race. |
| 0:38.9 | But first we banter. |
| 0:40.2 | Stick around. |
| 0:40.9 | It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:46.9 | I am joined by my partner in banter Matt Bellany. |
| 0:50.1 | Hello, Matt. |
| 0:50.9 | Hi there. |
| 0:52.4 | So, to the disappointment of some, the Murdoch family has worked out its differences. |
| 0:59.2 | As we have discussed before, there was litigation when Rupert Murdoch tried to change his irrevocable trust to favor his son, Lachlan, who is CEO of Fox Corp, who has clearly emerged as Rupert's favorite, at least in terms of who he wants to have, succeed him. |
| 1:17.2 | And at first, it was this great show of them hurling things at each other, and it was almost as good as the TV show succession. |
| 1:26.9 | It was just candy for people who |
| 1:29.9 | like to watch that kind of drama. But now they've worked it all out and that the dissenting children, |
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