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    5 months ago

    Only the business consultants who recommended rebranding “HBO Max” to “HBO Max” (over the course of three years) could’ve come up with something so bold.

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      If you ever feel like your job is meaningless, remember that there are people who are paid to be marketers.

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      It was McKinsey both times, and they made over 100 million dollars on it (not kidding)

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        5 months ago

        Yep. The single biggest con job Zaslav ever fell for, and he fell for it twice.

        He might literally be the worst man in show business. Both in terms of human decency and business acumen.

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      Depends on what the hype among management consultants was ten years ago.

      All those people gotta be paid. What else are they supposed to do? Deliver food or clean bathrooms?

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    “I hate Discovery.”

    “This isn’t the Star Trek show.”

    “Oh… never mind.”

    Hey, are we going to get the original Discovery channel back? Or any of the good ones from old cable? No? Oh well…

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    Damn, just lost a lot of money on my bets of “Warner Discovery” and “Brothers”.

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    “You have no idea of the physical toll that two mergers have on a company”

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    What’s in a name?

    Apparently a whole lot

    We’re at the point that any name recognition is worth serious coin