She also hosted a talk with first lady JILL BIDEN late last year as part of Forbes’ 50 over 50 event.Ī new book by New York Times reporters ALEX BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN dubbed Biden a “devout Morning Joe” viewer and reported that Harris sought counsel from Scarborough. It’ll be the second conversation she’s hosted recently with the president’s family. On Tuesday night, she’s set to host a live conversation with VAL BIDEN OWENS, the president’s sister and close confidante. Mika has also known Biden since she was a kid, when Biden would meet with her father, the well-known former National Security Adviser ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI (Biden received the second Zbigniew Brzezinski Annual Prize awarded by the Center for Strategic and International Studies). (Joe and Mika were on hand when Vice President KAMALA HARRIS swore in Mark). Biden appointed Brezinski’s brother MARK BRZEZINSKI as ambassador to Poland just before the role took on tremendous importance following Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. While Morning Joe hasn’t nailed down a one-on-one interview with the president since he took office (very few at any network have), there’s an informal and overt link between the Scarborough/Brzezinski family and the Biden administration. And he and co-hosts JOE SCARBOROUGH and MIKA BRZEZEISKI have spoken privately on occasion since the 2020 election. A number of the hosts and contributors on the show have years-long relationships with Biden. Multiple people with knowledge of the president’s media consumption habits said he is a regular viewer of MSNBC’s Morning Joe (and, less frequently, CNN’s New Day), which he occasionally has on in the background as he starts his day. But he still regularly watches some shows and among them, one in particular stands out. Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Alex | Email MaxĬompared to his predecessor, President JOE BIDEN does not have a voracious diet for cable news. That leaves a number of companies - ranging from AMC to ViacomCBS - still on the dance floor.Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. A similar notion was behind Disney’s purchase of Fox two years ago. Merging WarnerMedia ( which it only recently bought) with Discovery provides heft another way ( and also allows AT&T to concentrate on its wireless business, including potentially competing for valuable broadband customers).
That’s why Amazon is buying MGM - among other things, it will have control of the very valuable James Bond library. After that, viewership quickly drops off.īuying or creating content is hugely expensive so these companies all want scale. The other two clear winners are Amazon Prime Video and Disney, which owns Disney+ and controls Hulu. Not surprisingly, Netflix remains at the top of the heap, watched by nearly 60% of Americans. Winners and also-rans have quickly emerged. That has quickly become a battle by providers to offer both a robust inventory of productions as well as at least a few “must-watch” shows - like The Crown, The Boys and The Mandalorian. In lieu of traditional cable and satellite television, Americans are subscribing to multiple streaming services. Indeed, 20% of millennials say they have never subscribed to a cable or satellite television service. They have been “cutting the cord” in such droves that by 2024, some analysts believe more Americans will receive their television “over the top” than through their cable television hookup. Why are these happening?įundamentally, the industry is in the midst of a major technological change in which consumers no longer need to buy an expensive bundle of services from cable television providers in order to watch their favorite television shows.
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Yesterday’s announcement that Amazon will buy the movie studio MGM is just the latest in a series of major deals in the entertainment business.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner discussed how cord-cutting and the streaming wars are driving recent consolidation in the media industry - a never-ending race for viewers and content.
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