Episode 264 - Law & Order of the Rings

More strike talk is happening because that's the toast of the town. Maybe some CNN and Chris Licht talk too. Plus: SAG joins the strike team; Spotify layoffs affect podcasting; CNN is in upheaval; and more.

• Disney and Comcast’s fight over Hulu

• SAG-AFTRA ready to vote for strike authorization

• As strike continues, upfronts focus on reality and sports

• Valve helped Nintendo get the Dolphin emulator removed from its own store

• Spotify doing podcast layoffs and combining the two studios it purchased

• Chris Licht’s CNN is a bunch of trouble

• Jeff Zucker speaks out on his CNN firing

• Licht tells CNN staff he’s not the story

• CNN’s crisis was born of Licht

• Licht is gone a week after Atlantic piece

• David Zaslav can’t treat CNN like he treats other networks, streamers

Episode 257 - News Happens

Forget 60 Minutes; we're about to launch a show called 60 Seconds. Longform stories done short. That's what this TikTok generation needs. Yeah. I'm right. Plus: Anderson Cooper is doing 60 Minutes-style work for CNN; Spotify is not betting on diversity; and video game preservation gets more tricky thanks to Nintendo.

• Anderson Cooper to help usher in newsmagazine style show for CNN

• Spotify spent not very much of its diversity fund

• BAFTAs say diversity isn't t a problem since they nominate older white women too

• Nintendo makes game preservation difficult

• The Completionist spends nearly $25,000 buying everything in the eShop before it closes