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Putting the “Bro” Back in Warner Bros

Yay. Mergers. My favorite topic.ย  Not. Yeah, I just dropped a โ€œnotโ€. (What is this 1998?) Still, despite my dislike of this topic, even I canโ€™t ignore the big news of the last few weeks. The Most Important Story of the Weekย – Discovery/AT&T Merger Will Go Through The story of

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A Bad Few Weeks for The Disruption Narratives

Itโ€™s been a minute since Iโ€™ve written a pure strategy column. Between adding new databases for my streaming ratings report, writing columns for the Ankler, and preparing some other stuff, Iโ€™ve been busy. And my weekly call out of the most important story in entertainment fell by the wayside. Frankly,

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Meet The New FCC Boss, Same as the Old FCC Boss

Iโ€™m always on the look out for a good story that I think matters but that barely registered in the media coverage. Over the last few weeks we got a perfect example. If instead you want to worry about Disneyโ€™s subscriber additionsโ€”and I may do just that in another outlet

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After Dune, Three Questions for the Future of Legendary

Things have been moving over here at EntStrategyGuy headquarters. (More to come in the future.) As such, I skipped last weekโ€™s strategy column. There were a few interesting stories over the last two weeksโ€”a new FCC commissioner, another check in on box office, earnings seasonโ€”but Iโ€™m going to check in

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Three Lessons for the Averted IATSE

As I got ready to write this weekโ€™s column, my brother asked me what the story of the week was. And I had to reply thatโ€ฆI didnโ€™t know? Iโ€™d kept up on all my newsletters and checking the trade websites last week, but no story stuck out as truly important.ย 

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The CAA/ICM Merger is Easy to Explain: Size = Power

Weโ€™re switching things up this week. Since Nielsen delayed this weekโ€™s streaming ratings data, youโ€™ll get the “Most Important Story of the Weekโ€ column today, and the โ€œStreaming Ratings Reportโ€ on Monday. Sound good? If so, then onto the big story of the week, which Iโ€™ve been itching to write

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Manning the Booth…Is This the Future of Broadcasting?

Jerry Seinfeld had a terrific joke about the news: somehow there was always enough for the daily newspaper. Never more, never less. Well, the internet blew that up by magnitudes. It turns out we–as a society/community–can crank out tons of words on anything. But is it all โ€œnewsโ€? Maybe? Probably

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