Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@kenli729 @RichLightShed @ballmatthew (live tweets but editable) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Kafka @pkafka

@kenli729 People who are here: Every media person who write about this stuff. AT&T Randall Stephenson. @RichLightShed + many other analysts. Many pr people. People who are not: @ballmatthew — PolitiTweet.org

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The main question is: How much will HBO Max cost? And how many people will get it for free? We already know, via @kenli729 and Reuters, that 10mm AT&T customers who already have regular HBO will get HBO Max for free for a year. — PolitiTweet.org

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Back to the business. HBO has been steadily announcing programming for HBO Max, so not much to reveal there, though there's a few more shows yet to show off. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'll be tweeting here, obvs, but you can follow along at home via livestream. Which makes me flying across the country to be here a little silly, but it was a nice flight. And it's sunny here in LA, unless you are in the part that is burning. — PolitiTweet.org

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Greetings from AT&T/WarnerMedia's big investor (and press) presentation, where the company will be showing off its plans for HBOMax, which is like HBO but has more stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

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True story. https://t.co/kSnkz0sUEs The best part of this was watching @waltmossberg’s head explode live onstage, when he learned that Intel had planned to put a camera in its cable box so it could watch you watching TV. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nicholasadeleon @swodinsky @cwarzel Patreon model seems great for that — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple, Amazon, Verizon and Intel all looked (or more) at selling cable tv-style bundles over the Internet but never launched. Next up: Selling Netflix-style services. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel (enjoy it while it lasts!) — PolitiTweet.org

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@cwarzel pod fucking casts: barely any money, barely any metrics. fun! — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh, Philo. https://t.co/b5bUlMG40T — PolitiTweet.org

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Unless you count Intel's TV service, which never launched and was sold for parts to Verizon. Still in the game, for now: YouTube, Hulu, Dish (via Sling) AT&T, FuboTV. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sony's streaming TV service, which you didn't know existed and had almost no subscribers, is shutting down. It's the first "virtual" pay TV service to throw in the towel. https://t.co/16x8YSZUjQ — PolitiTweet.org

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But that's kind of the way I feel about every steakhouse, and why I almost only go to one when someone is hosting a business dinner, or the annual dudes dinner — which last year moved to Grand Szechuan instead. Way better. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @teddyschleifer: From last night — The dog walking company Wag, which has become a punchline in Silicon Valley after taking $300 millio… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sriramk: This is a fantastic read from @alexstamos. Smarter than most takes you’ll find on these topics. https://t.co/UBlsghgkZk — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ShiraOvide: What if all the US restaurant delivery companies destroy themselves competing for diners and restaurants? https://t.co/iE… — PolitiTweet.org

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These are good ideas, from people with a very good idea about how they might be implemented. Read the Letter Facebook Employees Sent to Mark Zuckerberg About Political Ads https://t.co/ssfgapy8bO — PolitiTweet.org

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“ So boo. Boo until you cannot boo any longer. And then boo some more. It might not make a difference. But dammit, it can’t hurt.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Whoops I got the insurance too so actually $150 more with tax? So basically two AirPods? Ho ho Ho. But at least I’m getting free Apple TV shows (right?) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @amychozick: Robert Evans hit on me when I went to the Paramount lot to interview Sumner Redstone, who was accompanied by a woman in Luc… — PolitiTweet.org

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@DylanByers loved newsroom bc i love all sorkin. i also loved studio 60. (ok i didn't love the last movie. he should probably let someone else direct him) — PolitiTweet.org

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@DylanByers PS Succession, Twitter's favorite show, gets only marginally better ratings than Ballers, liked only by @ewarren and me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DylanByers strettttttching this one. If it's a good show people will like it, and if not they won't, and it doesn't matter if the main character is called Ann Curry or Daenerys. — PolitiTweet.org

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I lost my first AirPods a couple months after getting them because the carrying case slipped out of my pocket in a theater and I refused to replace them on principle because I didn't want to give Apple more $ but now I'm going to buy new ones that cost $100 more haha joke's on me — PolitiTweet.org

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Sounds good, says Elliott. “ “We commend AT&T for the positive steps announced today.” — PolitiTweet.org

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But, also: AT&T tells Wall Street that CEO Randall Stephenson will “remain CEO through at least 2020.” — PolitiTweet.org

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AT&T tells Wall Street that activist investor Elliott Management, who wants AT&T’s top execs replaced, are not bad once you get to know them. https://t.co/Qpys7wHK7G — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @teddyschleifer: NEWS: Barry McCarthy — the man behind the direct listing, the IPO replacement that is one of the hottest ideas in Sil… — PolitiTweet.org