Cable Networks
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
Invest Like the Best 
How I Built This 
the a16z Podcast
4 statements about Cable Networks, every show
Hastings: Subscription networks historically start on licensed content before producing originals
“Every cable network, which is a subscription business, had started on other people's content, build some audience, and then start to add their own content. HBO was built on other people's content, and then got good at original programming. So Again, it was a v…”
Early cable networks compounded at 20% growth with 20% ROEs for decades
“Basically for 20 years, cable networks grew 20% with 20 ROEs, so they were compounders, and that's how you had all these entrepreneurs that had become, you know, billionaires, and that's how you basically had media companies that really fought over a balance o…”
Hendricks: Supreme Court struck down FCC cable network restrictions as unconstitutional
“The Supreme Court decided that the FCC restrictions that prevented the creation of cable networks were Was not constitutional, and the Supreme Court held that anybody who wanted to start a cable network was a First Amendment speaker”