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Jason Kilar: Streaming Isn’t Broken, But Hollywood Media Company Streaming Strategies Sure Are
By Daniel Frankel published
In an 1,800-word Penske showbiz trade guest essay, the former Hulu and Warner chief implores media conglomerates to band together to form a bundled, ‘everything’ platform and refocus on building Netflix-like streaming scale

Hulu at 15: Founding CEO Jason Kilar Recounts the Early Days of the JV Formerly Known as ‘Clown Co.’
By Daniel Frankel published
In 2008, the denizens of one Silicon Valley giant laughed long and hard about the idea of a streaming joint venture between tradional Hollywood media companies

Why HBO Max Returned, Hat in Hand, to Amazon Channels (Bloom)
By David Bloom published
HBO’s return to channels shows that what made sense just 30 months ago in go-go 2020 doesn’t anymore in the suddenly cash-strapped streaming biz

WBD Completes One of the More Costly 360s in TMT History with HBO Max's Return to Amazon Prime Video Channels
By Daniel Frankel published
The move for app independence caused a tech war with Amazon that significantly stunted HBO Max's growth. And to think it was all for nothing

Kilar and Zaslav Play Chicken with CNN Plus, Hundreds Of Employees Lose
By David Bloom last updated
The hurried debut of CNN Plus was about Jason Kilar’s crew trying to give the initiative a chance to survive, however slim, under Zaslav’s management

WarnerMedia Exodus: CRO Goncalves, CFO Biry, CTO Tom Follow Kilar, Sarnoff and Forssell Out the Door
By Daniel Frankel published
WarnerMedia confirms list of C-suite executives leaving the company ahead of the WBD closure

Jason Kilar Formalizes WarnerMedia Exit
By Daniel Frankel last updated
'We’ve elevated technology, product and design to the highest levels in the company,' he says in staff memo

CNN EVP Allison Gollust Has Resigned After Internal Investigation
By Kent Gibbons last updated
Network says third-party probe found network's CMO violated policies, as did ex-president Jeff Zucker and ex-anchor Chris Cuomo

Regrets, WarnerMedia's Jason Kilar Has a Few. But Should He?
By David Bloom last updated
Bloom: After reshaping a stubbornly backward-looking Hollywood studio for the streaming future, what could Jason KIlar possibly hang his head about?

WarnerMedia's Kilar Laments Inevitable Exit, 'Compressed' Way the Whole Day-and-Date Thing Went Down
By Daniel Frankel last updated
Speaking on the same Code Conference stage as Ted Sarandos did a day earlier, the HBO Max architect said he's 'disappointed' that he won't be at the company much longer
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