Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@davidcho And NYT and Spotify and Peloton and and and and. Yes. OTOH - the substack model, in theory, allows an individual to make a decent living from a very niche audience, and most other sub businesses don't. See: Seeso. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@AlexanderGordon indeed — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@jackshafer What is this "news" you speak of? — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidcho I mean, that's what it looks like the thinking is. Or, more practically, just kicking the can down the road, so you keep your MVPD business going, while saying you're doing something about streaming, and hoping that it will be be someone else's problem. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidcho ESPN+, which very much surprised me - and showed how much effort/$ you have to spend to make it happen. — PolitiTweet.org

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@damiEnbowman Yup. ESPN+ has gotten much further than I would have thought - in large part because Disney has spent real money to buy sports that might have gone to ESPN and streamed them instead - namely, fighting. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

All of the big cable properties have the same question: How do you bring your popular TV network to streaming w/out cannibalizing your popular TV network? In most cases it's the same answer: You don't - you bring something else to streaming, for that network's super-fans. — PolitiTweet.org

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This wouldn't be a streaming version of CNN, per Jessica, but a CNN branded collection of.... things that aren't on CNN. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

RT @alexrkonrad: This story about the final months of legendary Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is heartbreaking. Thoughtfully reported by @AngelAu… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bmorrissey I definitely get that vibe. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

One obvious effect of being kicked out of No Ads Twitter and inserted into Many Ads Twitter is that it really makes you less tolerant of crappy tweets, because screen space is now much more precious. So thanks to everyone who has silently put up with my crappy tweets! — PolitiTweet.org

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@akruglov Matthew is subtweeting a Bad Take. But there are *many* Bad Takes today so I don’t advise spending time trying to identify the right one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bmorrissey Yup for sure. But I often get the sense that some of the re-orgers are sincere, true believers. *this* will fix it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@poniewozik That is the message, because that is the reality. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@bmorrissey I do wonder if there’s a particular kind of org/manager that is most receptive to reorgs, and what makes the org/manager that way. — PolitiTweet.org

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@edmundlee @hbomax Otoh clearly hoping to convince Wall Street that att now owns its own netflix. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jerrycanning Absolutely a chance. The theaters don’t want to set a precedent, and/or encourage the other studios to try their own versions. Warner is bet. Warners is explicitly betting that the theaters would rather have something than nothing. It’s a very high stakes poker game. — PolitiTweet.org

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@felixsalmon Welcome to the party, pal. The good news is that Twitter used to think we were special. The bad news: Now we have to use Twitter like the hoi pilloi. https://t.co/1FmxME0EE2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@tamiror @SeanFennessey @akdobbins @TheBigPic Great minds! — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrisfralic @jasonkilar Was that when it was magazine app or the youtube star poaching app? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonfriedman Nope, gotta read the words. It's a quick one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sherman4949 (he's telling them to fuck off, politely) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@digitalshields I *really* miss my in-theater kid movie naps. I miss going to theaters to see movies i want to see, too. But those 45 minutes or so of guilt-free shut eye are grrrreat. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sherman4949 (he thinks it's huge) — PolitiTweet.org

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HBO plus Roku = shrug emoji. — PolitiTweet.org

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No word about what this means for 2022. But impossible to imagine Warners goes back to status quo. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Other nuggets: Yes, talent will get a slice of the licensing fee HBO Max is paying Warner Bros. No, it won't the be the same $ they'd get in a pre-pandemic world. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

Biggest takeaway from my interview with WarnerMedia's Jason Kilar about his relationship with the theater biz: He knows the theater biz hates what he's doing and he's doing it anyway. https://t.co/3eXcliJTmN https://t.co/E9e9i49IbY — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @voxdotcom: WarnerMedia’s CEO @jasonkilar explains why all of his movies, including Dune and The Matrix sequel, are coming to your house… — PolitiTweet.org

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You guys had great qs - Thank you! But I could only get to a few - and only got some of the answers. But here you go. Obviously lots of follow up to come. https://t.co/3eXcliJTmN — PolitiTweet.org