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Channels with Peter Kafka

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on a wild first year on the job

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Warner Media CEO Jason Kilar started his job in the middle of a global pandemic. Things got even weirder after that. Kilar talks with Recode’s Peter Kafka about his controversial plan to stream big movies on HBO Max, and how he’ll change that in 2022. Plus thoughts on sports, CNN, and Amazon, where he got his start. Featuring: Jason Kilar (@jasonkilar), CEO of Warner Media 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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slash voxpod this is recud media at peter kofka that is me i'm very excited to have jason keiler

1:10.0

who is the CEO of warder media online hey line. Hey, Jason. Hello, Peter. How are you? I'm good. I don't normally have to do disclosures at the beginning of this podcast, but here I have to say that Vox Media is working on a CNN original documentary, and I'm involved in that in some capacity, so we should clear that up right at the beginning. Did you know I was

1:28.6

working on a CNN documentary for you? I did not know that. All I would ask is please make it a good one.

1:33.8

I will do what I can. Jason, the last time we talked was December when you announced that you were

1:39.4

blowing up the movie business. You didn't say that, but a lot of us did. You were going to make all of your

1:44.9

theatrical movies streaming day and date throughout this year. People freaked out about it.

1:51.8

You said it was going to work out. We're now a few months into the experiment. How has it gone?

1:57.1

What have you learned?

1:58.1

Yeah, so we're very happy with it, Peter.

2:01.6

I mentioned this publicly before, but I'll restate it, which is, you know, we're four

2:06.6

movies into it, and it's obviously early in the year still.

2:09.6

But based on what we've seen so far and what I've already shared publicly, we're very

2:15.6

encouraged and we're encouraged for a number of reasons. Number one is that,

2:18.7

you know, for those people that are comfortable, they're showing up at the box office and Godzilla

2:22.7

versus Kong over the last 12 days is a great example of that around the world. And on HBO Max,

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