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Viewsroom: 'Game of Thrones'-style war heads to TV

Viewsroom

Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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HBO’s hit series is ending as parent AT&T, Amazon, Apple and Walt Disney launch their claims to the streaming-video crown. Netflix, though, will be hard to usurp. Elsewhere, India’s weeks-long election gets underway. And global economic growth collides with nationalism’s rise.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.2

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0:08.3

Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure.

0:11.0

Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal.

0:16.3

Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst that's last.

0:20.3

The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Roiders' News.

0:29.9

Welcome to The Views Room, a podcast from Reuters Breaking Views.

0:32.9

I'm Jennifer Sabah, and with me as co-host, Anthony Curry.

0:36.1

On the agenda for this week, HBO's series finale

0:39.2

of Game of Thrones and video streaming wars, India's weeks long general election, and global

0:45.3

economic growth versus the rise of nationalism. The Game of Thrones came back on our screens

0:50.4

this week, the first of six episodes of the final season. It's HBO's big hit,

0:55.6

I think, what, almost 18 million viewers on the first night alone, before even folding in all the

1:01.6

other ways we look at TV. It's owned by AT&T now, HBO, which is also getting out of Hulu. Hulu's

1:07.2

owned by Disney, mostly, which now wants to do its own thing with Disney Plus.

1:11.3

And in the meantime, we've had Netflix earnings this week where it's yet again had a bump a quarter, more and more subscribers coming on board.

1:17.8

This is one great big battle itself, isn't it?

1:21.6

Jen over eyeballs and money to pay for content for all of these different platforms.

1:26.6

How do we make sense of all of this?

1:28.0

Yeah. So here's how I think about it. Let's take Netflix first. Netflix is far and away the

1:35.0

leader in all of this. And there's been a lot of talk. How much momentum does it have? Is it overvalued?

1:41.4

You can kind of go down and tick down all the negative things that people say about it.

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