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Channels with Peter Kafka

ViacomCBS gets into the streaming wars, too. Sort of.

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

ViacomCBS just announced new plans to do… something in streaming video. CNBC’s Alex Sherman explains how the newly merged TV company sees itself competing with Netflix, Apple and everyone else, and how that might actually work. Also: Who wants to spend billions and billions of dollars to buy NFL rights? The answer might surprise you. Featuring: Alex Sherman (@sherman4949), CNBC Media & Tech reporter Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.

1:13.6

And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.

1:18.6

This week on the Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES, from the TVs to the AI gadgets, to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might

1:28.0

someday do your laundry and wash your dishes. All that and much more on the Vergecast, wherever you

1:33.4

get podcasts.

1:37.4

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. I'm speaking to you live on tape from Vox Media

1:44.1

headquarters in New York City.

1:46.1

Today I've got a dense information packed and excellent interview with one of my competitors.

1:52.0

Alex Sherman from CNBC. We're going to talk about sports and streaming and CBS Viacom,

1:57.6

how all those things are connected and whether and when the tech guys are going to put down big money on pro sports. We're going to bring you that conversation right now. Welcome, Alex. They just got to feed the beast, Peter, I understand. I'm just going to feed you. We're all good. You wrote a few weeks back about Viacom and CBS, which used to be two companies, actually used to be one

2:17.7

company, then there were two companies, not they merged. Coming out with the newest streaming

2:21.8

service, and last week they sort of unveiled that streaming service, except there's no name,

2:28.8

price, date, and they're not telling us what's in it. Yeah, we have to wait for what I assume

2:33.9

will be the right of passage for every media company now

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