The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike began on this date.
What is July 14, 2023?
In 2025, Disney's annual content spending is projected to reach this amount.
Answer: What is $30 billion?
This financing strategy involves selling distribution rights to various territories before production is complete.
Answer: What is foreign presales?
This term describes the rate at which subscribers discontinue their streaming service subscriptions.
What is churn?
TEAM DANA:
Which research firm recently forecast that streaming revenue would overtake pay TV?
Answer: Ampere Analytics
The new percentage cap on a talent agency's ownership of a production company, established after the WGA dispute with the ATA.
What is 20%
This is how much Disney paid to acquire 21st Century Fox.
Answer: What is $71.3 billion?
Residuals paid to a film’s talent are calculated based on this studio metric.
Answer: What are gross receipts from exploiting various distribution windows?
The overwhelming number of options across multiple streaming services has led to this phenomenon among viewers.
What is "choice fatigue"?
TEAM LORELAI - According to the reading "Netflix's Rise-- And the Fall of Old Media", describe in detail how did Netflix's stock price change from the summer of 2022 to early September 2024?
It fell below $180 in the summer of 2022, and skyrocketed up to $275 in September 2024.
In a significant transaction, this company became the largest outside shareholder in UTA.
Answer: What is Blackstone?
This company acquired The CW network AND paid this amount?
Answer: What is Nexstar and $54M?
The primary benefit to a studio in a negative pick-up deal is this.
Answer: What is taking no financial risk?
Answer: What is taking no financial risk?
Evan Shapiro emphasizes that understanding and leveraging this resource will be key to survival in the face of tech giant competition.
What is customer data?
TEAM ALEXANDRA - What is the birth name of the founder of William Morris Agency?
(Beginner's Guide to TV)
Zelman Moses
For the first TPG transaction with this agency, the four partners (Lovett, Lourd, Huvane, and
O'Conner) earned:
O'Connor got about $25 million, with Lourd and Huvane closer to $30 million and Lovett slightly over this
This is the business practice where the amount of the licensing fee a studio received for a tv series does not completely cover the production budget the studio is spending to create the series.
Answer: What is deficit financing?
What is used by the studio to calculate the studio’s overhead fee on a film project?
The project’s Production Costs
As the streaming landscape evolves, platforms like Netflix are now competing in this broader economy, which includes gaming and social video.
What is the attention economy?
Evan Shapiro refers to major tech companies such as Amazon and Google by this nickname for their dominance in media.
This media conglomerate's streaming division reported a $1.5 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2022.
What are the "Death Stars"?
Walt Disney Company
This platform holds a 9.9% share of U.S. streaming-TV watch time
Answer: What is YouTube?
This company's streaming service, reported a $978 million loss in the first quarter of 2023.
This media company's streaming platform, reported a $511 million loss in the first quarter of 2023.
This company's streaming service, reported a $217 million loss in the first quarter of 2023.
Answer: What is NBCUniversal/Peacock?
Answer: What is Paramount Global/Paramount+?
Answer: What is Warner Bros. Discovery/Max?
By 2030, this percentage of U.S. households is expected to primarily use FAST services for their television viewing.
Answer: What is 60%?
The success of a streaming platform depends on maintaining a high ratio of this metric relative to CAC, ensuring long-term profitability.
What is Lifetime Value (LTV)?
"By what percentage will the value of Pay-TV decline by 2028?"
Answer: 50%