Another billionaire thinks he can fix Warner Bros.
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Another billionaire thinks he can fix Warner Bros.

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 10, 202645 min
  • Business & money

Acquiring Warner Bros. never goes well for anyone. AOL failed, AT&T failed, and Discovery failed — although it did succeed in flipping the assets to David Ellison’s Skydance. So I’m talking to Peter Kafka, Business Insider chief correspondent and host of Channels, to see if Skydance has a chance at succeeding where nobody else has yet. Spoiler alert: Peter doesn’t think Skydance has a clear business plan, either. But he’s got some really good guesses about what might come next. Read the full interview transcript on The Verge. Links: CNN b...

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I'm Ina Garten and each week on Happy Hour I invite new and old friends for a drink and a fun conversation at my kitchen table in New York City. On this week's episode I'm joined by Nathan Lane. We talk about his critically acclaimed run in Death of a Salesman, taking his dog to

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therapy and winning an Emmy for Only Murders in the Building. New episodes of Happy Hour are available every Wednesday. You can watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Cheers.

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Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Eli Patel, editor and chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking with Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of the channel's podcast about the gigantic Warner Brothers Paramount merger and the future

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