@hibarrmedia Founder/CEO. Host of Media Moguls @mediamogulspod on Ted Turner. ‘You Had To Be There' on all podcast apps. 🎧 Listen below👇
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After a few months in the lab with a pen & a pad, @HiBarrMedia’s MEDIA MOGULS ... IS BACK!
and this season is very different from our Ted Turner Saga.
Everyone knows the names Walt Disney, Rupert Murdoch, and Ted Turner.
But Steve Ross?
He might be the most fascinating media mogul you’ve probably never heard of.
The new season of MEDIA MOGULS is all about the incredible story of how Ross went from working at his in-laws’ funeral home business to owning Warner Bros. in less than 15 years...despite having no experience in entertainment.
And that's just the beginning.
Over the next 2 decades, he’d build one of the greatest entertainment empires in history.
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Netflix is going to generate more cash this year than Disney.
Just bonkers that we take this for granted. Not very long ago sober people worried Netflix was spending so much on content it would never break even.
Via @mvpeers
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Wes Anderson ass mic set up
We’re sanctioning Russia at speed and scale.
Today’s measures, together with the upcoming 21st sanctions package, will add 250 individuals and entities to the Russia sanctions regime.
This is our biggest round of individual designations since Moscow’s 2022 full-scale invasion, and includes also the EU’s largest-ever cyber sanctions package.
The financial backbone of Russia’s war machine is the main target. Every measure weakens Moscow’s ability to wage war.
My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
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Aussie Cruz Hewitt, the 17-year-old son of former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, is into the boy's singles final at #Wimbledon, where his dad took the title in 2002
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This type of craftsmanship is even more impressive today
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Food for thought:
Gagosian, Ovitz, Geffen, Diller each worked at William Morris within a 12 year span & ALL left before making it big (or even out of mailroom)
Upon leaving, each fundamentally changed an industry in outsized ways.
All are still very influential.
Incredible.
“With 19 galleries that bear his name, from NY to London to Hong Kong, generating more than a $1bn in annual revenue, Gagosian may well be the biggest art dealer in the history of the world…
He’s been known to observe w/ the satisfaction of Alexander the Great, “The sun never sets on my gallery”
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Fun behind the scenes of that Timothée Chalamet/New York Post photo from the Knicks Game 5 win in tonight’s Status
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The Knicks trailed by 17 points with less than 9 minutes to go.
Entering today, teams were 0-96 when trailing by 17+ points in the final 9 minutes of regulation of a Finals game since 1970-71.
The Knicks have just made that 1-96.
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I've covered box office results literally hundreds of times in my career. The mind-blowing success of "Backrooms" and "Obsession" this weekend easily ranks in the top 1% as far as long-term significance for the movie business. My story w/ @johnjurg: wsj.com/business/media/gen-z…
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algorithms have collapsed time, prioritizing relevance over post date. @mattstasoff suggests making your campaign rollout deck and then shuffling it. what do you see first? does it make you want to see more? if it leaves you feeling nothing, perhaps it doesn’t belong.
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