WWF vs WCW - Titan Rising | 1
Business Wars9 Sep 2019

WWF vs WCW - Titan Rising | 1

It’s the early 1980s and there’s peace in the wrestling business. For years regional wrestling companies have maintained order by sticking to their own slices of US and Canadian territory.

But that’s all about to change. Vince McMahon has just taken over the World Wrestling Federation, and he wants war. He’s on a mission to crush all opposition and establish the WWF as the only wrestling game in town.

But his assault on the wrestling status quo will also make him a powerful enemy: cable TV mogul Ted Turner.


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Hearst vs Pulitzer - War Drums | 4

Hearst vs Pulitzer - War Drums | 4

What happens when there’s no news? You have to MAKE the news.When Hearst heard from his top reporter that the Spanish-Cuban tension wasn’t looking like anything would happen, Hearst wasn’t just going ...

19 Jun 201825min

Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Price of News | 3

Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Price of News | 3

In 1883, 15 years before the Headless Torso Murder, New York City's population was rapidly growing and the newspaper scene was pretty sleepy. The city's nearly 50 daily papers, even the small New York...

14 Jun 201821min

Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Headless Torso, Part 2 | 2

Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Headless Torso, Part 2 | 2

In 1897, America looked very different. Carriages rolled through the streets of New York. Mass media was just growing up, and Hearst was convinced that carrier pigeons - hunted to extinction by 1914 -...

12 Jun 201822min

Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Headless Torso, Part 1 | 1

Hearst vs Pulitzer - The Headless Torso, Part 1 | 1

This is the beginning of a mystery, a great business rivalry, and a look into American history. To tell the story of Hearst vs Pulitzer, we called our friend Lindsay Graham over at American History Te...

7 Jun 201824min

Gregor Mendel vs the World - American Innovations | 1

Gregor Mendel vs the World - American Innovations | 1

Host David Brown interviews Steven Johnson, the host of the new podcast American Innovations.Support us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac...

10 Mai 201835min

The First Computer War - Computing Gets Personal | 6

The First Computer War - Computing Gets Personal | 6

After all that IBM has been through over the decades, it would have never in a million years guessed that their undoing would be at the hands of a scrawny and unknown computer nerd named Bill Gates. G...

8 Mai 201826min

The First Computer War - Betting the Store | 5

The First Computer War - Betting the Store | 5

It’s 1961. Since his father retired 5 years earlier, Thomas Watson Jr pushed to modernize IBM from the top down. New management, new ideas, newer, faster, machines. The company has grown, employing 1,...

3 Mai 201824min

The First Computer War - Abdication | 4

The First Computer War - Abdication | 4

In Episode 1 the UNIVAC successfully predicted that Eisenhower would win the 1952 election. In Philadelphia, a champagne hangover quickly settled in over the Remington Rand building, the company elate...

1 Mai 201825min

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