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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
10 Aug 2026 Acquired Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
“Even more than that, I think for a lot of startup cable networks, the dollars went the other way.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 10 Aug 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Because before, cable channels would just let themselves show up in a cable bundle. They'd let the cable bundle distribute and say like, oh, well, we're selling ads, so can you just do the distribution for us so that anybody who's buying your cable bundle will get my channel and thus see my ads? And pre-ESPN, that was the whole business model. Even more than that, I think for a lot of startup cable networks, the dollars went the other way. I think they were even paying— Oh right. They would pay to be included.…
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