StarZero All shows Try the podcast clipper →

John Hendricks

11 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2022 by John Hendricks · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: John Hendricks's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

Everything said about John Hendricks, oldest first

Jan 17, 2022 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Hendricks: Early 1970s Cable Was Legally Restricted to Retransmitting Broadcast Signals
“Cable was around, so this would have been probably around 1972 or 73, but cable was Really a community antenna. There are a lot of places in America that couldn't receive a good broadcast signal. Either they were down in the hollows or they were in urban areas…”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 5:55 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022 positive
Insight
Hendricks: Up To 40% Of People Crave Science And History Programming
“I think, you know, there's 25 to 40% Of humanity that's deeply curious. They really want to know, where do we come from? You know, how, how is our future going to be shaped by our past? Where are we in the universe, for example? So it's that audience, which ha…”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 18:30 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hendricks: Nielsen required 15M household distribution for ratings reports
“They said, well, that's the minimum number of households that Nielsen needs to actually issue a ratings report.”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 31:17 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022
Disclosure
Hendricks: Discovery Offered Cable Operators Two Free Years Before Charging
“We'll be free for two years. But in the third year, you will agree to pay us a nickel if you have the freedom to do so through deregulation.”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 28:30 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022
Assertion Supported
Hendricks: Discovery Channel reached about 156,000 households on launch day
“Later, we learned about a 156,000 households were able to see the service. Yeah, had access on that very first day.”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 46:05 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hendricks Licensed $250K BBC Documentaries For $1,000 Per Hour
“So a documentary that the BBC would have spent a 100,000 to 250,000 dollars on, I could really license for only a thousand dollars an hour.”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 32:48 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022
Assertion Open · timeframe Jan 2022
Hendricks: Westinghouse gave Discovery Channel a free week on satellite transponder
“Westinghouse, anxious to lease a transponder for the satellite, yeah, the satellite transponder, said, John, you know, we'll donate, we will give you the use of the satellite for a week.”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 41:18 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022
Disclosure
Hendricks: Launching Discovery Channel required minimum $25 million over two years
“But you're right, I knew we would need a minimum of twenty-five million, a little over, say, two years. Of operations.”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 21:25 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022
Disclosure
Hendricks: Discovery Channel needed $1M monthly burn, $340K for satellite
“I mean, just doing the research, it was clear that I would have an expense rate of at least a million a month. Okay. And the big portion of that was the satellite transponder and uplink, which is, I recall was around 333 140,000 dollars a month.”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 20:08 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022
Assertion Contradicted
Hendricks: Discovery Channel's initial financing round was $2 million
“We closed on our very first Round of financing was two million dollars.”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 40:36 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Jan 17, 2022
Disclosure
Hendricks: Discovery equity diluted from 100% to 7%, then 4%
“There was that moment in time when I incorporated when I had a hundred percent equity, and then you get diluted down and diluted down, I think, After that, I think it was around, maybe around seven percent, and then you know, for the longest period, I was at f…”
John Hendricks Jan 17, 2022 ▶ 57:31 Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 800 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

Try the podcast clipper Learn more