The late-stage era of linear television, as my dedicated readers well know, was never going to be pretty. It’s hard to be ambitious when the pay is smaller, the mandate is bloodletting, and everyone is secretly planning for their next act. But it can be dispiriting to look out across the vast linear landscape as the biggest players foreshadow the gloom of the future through rabid belt-tightening (“capital optimization”!) and similar tactics that suggest there are no easy solutions amid the inter-era turbulence.
The Iger Mini-Gamble
Dylan Byers
August 9, 2023
