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ESPN as Cable’s Grim Reaper, How the Cable Bundle Crumbled, What Taylor Swift Can Teach Content Companies

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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How to Preserve the Value of the Cable Bundle

The networks are like, okay, we want to build our own Netflix. And they looked at Netflix and said, you guys aren't doing the hard part. The hard part is making great content that gets people in the door. You guys are just a tech company that doesn't really understand what they're doing here. That's right. It's exactly same thing we saw with newspapers back in the day in Google.

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