Posted on 02/04/2022 7:31:11 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Speaking to CNBC Friday morning in separate interviews, John Stankey and David Zaslav push back on claims of John Malone's involvement.
AT&T CEO John Stankey, who currently oversees WarnerMedia and CNN, and Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who will assume oversight of WarnerMedia and CNN in just a few months, on Friday were grilled about former CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s exit.
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both Stankey and Zaslav were pressed on reporting from multiple outlets that said Discovery board member John Malone — who has been critical of Zucker’s programming strategy at CNN — pressed the company to take action.
“None of us had anything to do with it,” Zaslav said when asked about Malone.
“I am not going to speculate on your theory,” Stankey said. “I have always had a practice of not commenting on personnel decisions, and I’m not going to do that here.”
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“Milford, New England”
Uh—Milford, CT.
“Milford, New England” sounds like something a Chinese writer would have written...
Cable TV was originally sold as “non-commercial,” meaning no commercials if you paid for cable.
Last time I watched cable TV, which was about three years ago, it appeared to me to be about 50% commercials.
If that subjective judgment was true, cable TV now has about three times the ratio of commercials to content that old broadcast “free TV” had 50 years ago.
“Milford, New England” sounds like something a Chinese writer would have written...
Ahhh...
There's also a Milford NY, a Milford Maine, a Milford New Hampshire, a Milford NJ, and a Milford Delaware. Only Vermont and Rhode Island are New England states that can truly be said to be Milford-free.
It looks like “Milford” is to New England what “Shelby” is to the South.
Oops. Forgot Pennsylvania. Which also has a Milford.
What you describe is pretty much what AP (A.K.A. the “Associated Left”) used to do for print news. A LONG time ago.
Good call. Yup, it’s a TV version of the old AP, before it went woke.
Actually, that’s a crock.
Cable was originally sold as a cleaner picture and more channels. Then when cable only channels came on, it was niche viewing.
Then HBO came on…which was commercial free.
I am not sure where you are, or hat you are watching, but every channel has defined commercial blocks. There are blocks that the channel uses. There are blocks reserved for local ad sales.
Those blocks haven’t changed in the 25 years since I left the business.
Again, not sure where you are…but on a national basis…that’s how it works.
No it’s not “a crock” and cable rolled out where I live more than forty years ago, so you’re the one who’s knowledge is incomplete.
I ran the sales and marketing for a very large cable company in the 80’s. While your salesman was an idiot—that is not the way it was sold.
But, go on believing your you individual understanding exceeds that of someone who did it for a living.
We never talked to a “salesman.” My family couldn’t afford nonsense like cable TV. But I remember the ads and promotions. They were everywhere. Perhaps you weren’t paying attention, I don’t know.
And it was in the early 70s, not the 80s. You came into the business after the early promises were forgotten and memory-holed.
Sounds like a good guy.
A Raider entrepreneur.
Maybe he could go to Russia and give the locals a run for their rubels.
Trump should make him secretary of state
In the early 70s...there were only broadcast channels on cable.
The channels like HBO, ESPN and the like did not enter the fray until the mid 70s.
I spent 15 years training, developing training, and creating the tools for selling CATV for over a million customers. I know the history of the industry a lot better than you.
But this is a silly discussion as you don’t even use the product. (And the 70’s were 50 years ago, not forty.)
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