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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:03:04 David Rosenthal Sniffing around CBS, NBC isn't for sale.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:32 Ben Gilbert It was Universal, which was owned by NBC, which is now owned by Comcast.
- ▶ 39:51 David Rosenthal Al Michaels, the Monday Night Football commentator, like a sports team trade, to NBC in exchange for the IP rights to Oswald the Rabbit.
- ▶ 40:02 Ben Gilbert And Oswald is repatriated, and NBC gets Al Michaels, and all is right in the world.
- ▶ 2:58:06 Ben Gilbert So the existing big four networks, which are about to be three, NBC, CBS, and ABC, became pretty entrenched.
- ▶ 3:01:34 David Rosenthal Like, it was all NBC and CBS until Disneyland.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:27:51 David Rosenthal It was on NBC for a while, but only certain Grand Prix.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 59:37 David Rosenthal And the two major networks at the time, CBS and NBC, had deals with NFL teams.
- ▶ 1:32:18 David Rosenthal And then there's also NBC.
- ▶ 1:32:48 David Rosenthal The AFL and NBC announced that they've just signed a new five year, 37.5 million dollar deal.
- ▶ 1:57:58 David Rosenthal The networks and CBS and NBC are living because they've already got the rights to the respective leagues.
- ▶ 1:58:27 David Rosenthal On both CBS and NBC, and in addition to them each spending a million dollars for the rights to this one game, they also both pledge to spend one million dollars each in promoting it in the lead up to the game.
- ▶ 2:06:31 David Rosenthal And NBC essentially with their same packages, CBS airing the NFC games and NBC airing the AFC games.
- ▶ 2:09:52 David Rosenthal So they got CBS, they've got NBC.
- ▶ 2:12:41 David Rosenthal From the production standpoint for CBS and NBC, they're sending each of them like five, six, seven TV crews out all across the country.
- ▶ 2:14:22 David Rosenthal And right before they're about to sign a deal, Roselle's like, oh yeah, by the way, we have these partnerships with CBS and NBC.
- ▶ 2:14:47 David Rosenthal He knew that there was no way that NBC and CBS were gonna take this package.
- ▶ 2:16:52 David Rosenthal CBS and NBC must have been pissed.
- ▶ 2:32:33 Ben Gilbert They invented a new skew, the Sunday night package, and they invented this a while ago, but NBC has that for 1.7 billion a year.
- ▶ 2:33:13 Ben Gilbert It's the content that is exclusive to CBS, Fox, NBC, that those networks produce.
- ▶ 2:58:11 Ben Gilbert I mean, AT&T slash Direct TV, NBC slash Universal.
- ▶ 3:22:34 Ben Gilbert You know, Fox or NBC buys a rights package.
- ▶ 3:23:15 David Rosenthal Yeah, this is NBC, ABC, Fox charging the cable companies to bring those broadcast networks onto the cable companies, even though they are also available for free over the air to consumers.
- ▶ 3:23:28 Ben Gilbert But if you have a cable package and in your cable package, you choose to go to the NBC station, then NBC gets paid by the cable company for bringing you as a viewer.
- ▶ 3:34:50 Ben Gilbert It's nuts that CBS and NBC's reach was the problem.