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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

How Hollywood Drove Its Business Model Off a Cliff

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

ABC's Acquisition of ABC Twin Cities

In the span of the internet, that finite time becomes infinite and that infinite time is fractured into 10,000 different shards of attention. ABC was bought in 1995 ironically because Disney needed a larger distribution path. The issue is that Bob Iger has spent the last year saying that anyone who's tied to satellite or to broadcast or to linear is basically in a lot of trouble.

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