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Penelope's avatar

In case no one else noticed, this is the weekend that announced that there is no normal to go back to in the entertainment business. Spectrum/Disney, Swift/AMC, to say nothing of ABBA’s avatar tour, it’s perfectly clear that a whole lot of actual creative thinking needs to happen if there is to be a functional entertainment business. The (let’s do it again because it worked once and use as many people as we can to talk about it at meetings) corporatized model that has become the norm has simply been blown up. I don’t know what comes next, but it’s not going to come out of “compromise”!

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Sonny Bunch's avatar

Yeah, the Spectrum/ESPN thing is the low-key biggest story out there right now. I'm still trying to find out more about it, but this is the biggest sign yet that linear cable is coming to a crashing halt much sooner than expected.

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Walter Chuck's avatar

I'm was an unsuspecting victim this weekend. I took the weekend to go on vacation and off the grid. I tried to watch the Italian Grand Prix and was rewarded with an annoying screen about the pissing contest between the 2.

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