Media Monday: Ellison’s Vaunted Tech Plan & The Cable-Pod Crossover
Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite for a talmudic reading of David Ellison’s first week on the job and some obsessive theorizing about his tech fantasies. Then they delve into the convergence of cable ...
18 Aug 202531min
A Sports Rights Royal Rumble
Axios’s Sara Fischer returns to the pod to help make sense of the biggest sports media plot lines from the past few weeks: Paramount’s $7.7 billion deal with UFC, ESPN’s respective bombshell pacts wit...
16 Aug 202533min
Do Magazine Covers Still Matter?
Lauren Sherman joins Peter to assess how much magazine covers actually move the cultural needle in today’s digital-first media landscape. While big stars are still lining up for attention-grabbing sho...
15 Aug 202524min
Legacy Sports Media Strikes Back
John Ourand joins Peter Hamby to break down a consequential stretch in sports media, with Paramount cutting a $7.7 billion check for UFC rights and ESPN expanding its sports empire ahead of football s...
14 Aug 202526min
Altman’s Beltway Bargain
Ian Krietzberg joins guest host Julia Ioffe to discuss Sam Altman’s latest gambit: offering ChatGPT Enterprise to U.S. government agencies for next to nothing, in hopes of building muscle memory insid...
13 Aug 202523min
Congress’s Recess Reckoning
Abby Livingston joins guest host Julia Ioffe to break down the August recess town halls, where some members of Congress are dodging the spotlight while others face heat over the Big Beautiful Bill and...
12 Aug 202522min
Media Monday: Ellison's Tech Talk & The McAfee Plan
Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite to discuss some of the overlooked complexifiers in David Ellison's conquest of Paramount. They also assess the challenging points of leverage between ESPN and Fox and...
11 Aug 202527min
Katie Drummond’s New 'Wired' Order
Katie Drummond, global editorial director of Wired, joins the pod to reflect on her overhaul of the tech magazine—transforming it into a sharp-edged outlet covering the dystopian intersection of techn...
9 Aug 202541min
