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“Nick's hiring followed the firing of an executive producer and people on her team, and Nick was paid roughly 80% more at 2.5 million a year than the prior EP.”

“Paramount, which owns CBS, is in the process of buying CNN.”

“I thought it would have just been better Like, much more stronger communication for him to say, hey, look, we're anthropic, we've built a system that's specifically good at answering questions, being friendly and helpful, writing code, like, our system is awes…”

“He negotiates a two year deal with CBS at 4.65 million dollars in rights per year to be shared equally among the teams.”

“That value of that contract would grow 2500 X over the next 62 years.”

“They each end up paying one million dollars for the rights to both broadcast it. So this game now is going to be broadcast to the nation on both CBS and NBC, and in addition to them each spending a million dollars for the rights to this one game, they also bot…”

“If we start thinking about the influence that Ellison, the Ellison family is having on the Trump administration, whether it's quid pro quo or it's the appearance of quid pro quo, it's best for Trump to stay out of it because already we have the TikTok deal. No…”

“So the number I remember was we shipped 40,000 pounds of peanuts. So that's that full truckload of peanuts.”

“So, beginning in 2026, all UFC events will stream on Paramount Plus with select events also airing on CBS.”

“The, we'll pay the league sixty million dollars a year for four years. And that's a medley of Amazon, CBS, ESPN, and then.”

“CBS's market capitalization was 16 times the size of Capital Cities. But by the time Murphy sold his company to Disney 30 years later, Capital Cities was three times as valuable as CBS.”

“The formula that allowed Murphy to overtake Paley was deceptively simple. Number one, focus on industries with attractive economic characteristics. Number two, selectively use leverage to buy occasional large properties. Number three, improve operations. Numbe…”

“I just don't think, we would never have allowed CBS, ABC, NBC to be owned by the Soviet Union in the 19 sixties.”

“The biggest challenge, the macro challenge, the most interesting challenges is about that fragmentation and that digital transition. And that's very challenging for a legacy broadcaster like the BBC or like a network in the US, CBS, ABC, when you can see those…”

“We help companies like CBS, Assembly, Google, Red Lab, Facebook, VaynerMedia, Vox, RGA, and countless other companies create better video content faster and literally at a fraction of the cost they're creating it today.”

“CBS Sony records. Which is the Japanese distribution arm of CBS's recorded music in Japan, becomes such a cash cow that within just a few years, it is the most profitable division for both Sony and CBS.”

“And ultimately, we came to a conclusion that we were very able to pay two billion dollars, because those media rights were effectively an investment grade bond, because you're going to get the offtake from an example, CBS, Fox, Time Warner, all of those partie…”

“You know, CBS bought the back catalog of Judge Judy for a hundred million dollars.”

“We have CBS as a partner, and we have Twitch as a partner, and Twitch had our international rights.”

“And the events.com domain name is one that we acquired from CBS. Believe it or not, it was originally owned by Bill Gross, not Pimco Bill Gross, but Idealab Bill Gross.”

“So, you know, typically you know, we work with sites like Inc, Fast Company Newsweek, CBS and we you know, if you look at the end of an article, you'll see recommended articles.”

“CBS with the Walter Cronkite, the brand as a father of news, could have launched on cable a CBS news network instead of letting Ted do it, but they saw themselves as a thirty-minute Six p.m. Period of news. They just didn't see news as a 24 hour audience produ…”

“As it turns out, it sold over a million albums overnight, and then the people at CBS and NBC and ABC, they, well, you know, all of a sudden they wanted to have lunch.”

“Let's take the seven billion dollars of media rights for NFL. That's all a hundred percent incremental margins that there's no cost of that, right? The ESPN signs a check, CBS or NBC signed a check and that's it. There's no cost to it. So the scalability of th…”

“Even the largest media companies like a CBS or NBC or Disney or firms like that, they don't have enough of the exact people that that brand advertiser wants to see or hit. And so they need to go off of their owned and operated properties.”

“There was one in particular called Prodigy that IBM and Sears and for a while, CBS, committed about a billion dollars to launch Prodigy.”