What's with the streaming price hikes?
Marketplace
American Public Media
4.6 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Disney’s streaming platforms — Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN — will see price hikes come October 21. They aren’t alone. As the streaming wars escalate, companies have switched focus to profit over customer volume, while consumers whittle down their subscriptions. Also in this episode: A soybean farmer faces trade war realities, manufacturers pour cash into new equipment, and Warren Littlefield, producer of “Fargo," “The Handmaid’s Tale” and more discusses the TV business with Kai.
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| 1:01.1 | Okay, what do you like? |
| 1:02.9 | Economic indicators? |
| 1:04.5 | Streaming TV? |
| 1:06.0 | Fly fishing? |
| 1:07.5 | We got it all from American public media. |
| 1:13.5 | This is Marketplace. |
| 1:28.7 | I'm Kai Rizdahl. It is Wednesday today, the 24th of September. Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 1:36.4 | Let us talk spending as a way to get going today. Not consumer spending. We do quite enough of that. |
| 1:43.2 | Thank you very much. No, we begin today with business spending, specifically, and I know this is a mouthful apologies in advance, specifically |
| 1:45.4 | something called new orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft. In plain English, |
| 1:52.8 | that's businesses buy new equipment so they can make more stuff to sell to us. We're going to get |
| 1:59.5 | August figures for durable goods tomorrow from the Census Bureau. |
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