Maybe don’t take an awesome app and flood it with reality show garbage
Barbie only delayed the inevitable.
The worst part about all this, is when this asshole gets fired soon. He will walk away with more money than any of us will ever see. For the low price of like half a billion we have lost shows we love, movies for tax purposes, a shitty new app, multiple strike negotiations where the union’s pretty much got everything they wanted, and price hikes to help cover every fuck up he made.
Make it illegal to hold executive positions and board seats in publicly traded companies (one or the other) so these fucking assholes stop stealing from us as they cover each others asses.
Well will you look at that. Almost like Zaslav sucks at his job.
Cue up the usual excuses for the dude who tried to shutter TCM for no good reason until he got called out
Tearing something down and reducing debt are very different than being able to run WB. We were always going to get here. He can slash and shelf as many projects as he wants, if he has no plan to successfully DO something it is never going to work.
I know him and his defenders entertain some fantasy where he can just slash away for 4 years and sell to Comcast for a bazillion dollars, but said from the start this was never feasible. Warner Brothers has to be actually RAN by someone. Not just slashed and cut, while he fires people, puts incompetent people in their place and launches a rebranded app he makes crappier every six months.
I hope they can’t recover.
The decision to shoehorn Discovery/TLC/HGTV/Food Network content into the app made absolutely no sense. All of those channels have gone to shit and it’s the streaming equivalent of shovelware.
Discovery hasn’t been relevant in a decade. TLC is basically lolcow content for CNA’s and middle-aged women. HGTV is literally just half-hour spurts of people walking around houses that look like Apple Stores. Food Network is legit just a bunch of shows with the same rotation of pseudocelebrity chefs being treated like A-List celebrities.
Removing HBO branding and shifting to *Max* while dropping legacy content will go down as the worst marketing blunder in business history. Imagine if Rolex changed their name to *timepiece*, stopped paying their best Swiss employees, and doubled the price.
If it weren’t for Barbie, this would’ve been an utter bloodbath.
Is his job just turning everything he touches to shit? Who the hell thought of turning HBO max into max?
Nobody wants ads these people never learn
The average Redditor saw this coming as soon as they found out Discovery wanted to buy WB.
More like piss poor management. I have a streaming model that works better and gives everyone what the didn’t know they wanted.
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Maybe don’t take an awesome app and flood it with reality show garbage
Barbie only delayed the inevitable.
The worst part about all this, is when this asshole gets fired soon. He will walk away with more money than any of us will ever see. For the low price of like half a billion we have lost shows we love, movies for tax purposes, a shitty new app, multiple strike negotiations where the union’s pretty much got everything they wanted, and price hikes to help cover every fuck up he made.
Make it illegal to hold executive positions and board seats in publicly traded companies (one or the other) so these fucking assholes stop stealing from us as they cover each others asses.
Well will you look at that. Almost like Zaslav sucks at his job.
Cue up the usual excuses for the dude who tried to shutter TCM for no good reason until he got called out
Tearing something down and reducing debt are very different than being able to run WB. We were always going to get here. He can slash and shelf as many projects as he wants, if he has no plan to successfully DO something it is never going to work.
I know him and his defenders entertain some fantasy where he can just slash away for 4 years and sell to Comcast for a bazillion dollars, but said from the start this was never feasible. Warner Brothers has to be actually RAN by someone. Not just slashed and cut, while he fires people, puts incompetent people in their place and launches a rebranded app he makes crappier every six months.
I hope they can’t recover.
The decision to shoehorn Discovery/TLC/HGTV/Food Network content into the app made absolutely no sense. All of those channels have gone to shit and it’s the streaming equivalent of shovelware.
Discovery hasn’t been relevant in a decade. TLC is basically lolcow content for CNA’s and middle-aged women. HGTV is literally just half-hour spurts of people walking around houses that look like Apple Stores. Food Network is legit just a bunch of shows with the same rotation of pseudocelebrity chefs being treated like A-List celebrities.
Removing HBO branding and shifting to *Max* while dropping legacy content will go down as the worst marketing blunder in business history. Imagine if Rolex changed their name to *timepiece*, stopped paying their best Swiss employees, and doubled the price.
If it weren’t for Barbie, this would’ve been an utter bloodbath.
Is his job just turning everything he touches to shit? Who the hell thought of turning HBO max into max?
Nobody wants ads these people never learn
The average Redditor saw this coming as soon as they found out Discovery wanted to buy WB.
More like piss poor management. I have a streaming model that works better and gives everyone what the didn’t know they wanted.