Channels with Peter Kafka

The World’s Cup Is Coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett

The World Cup is coming to the U.S (and Canada, and Mexico) in less than 100 days. Perhaps you’re an American who doesn’t care about soccer, and has given this news zero thought. That won’t be an opt...

2026-03-04

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Netflix Walks, Paramount Wins, and the Ellisons Take Hollywood

Netflix shocked the world last year by winning a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. This week it shocked us by walking away.In this emergency bonus episode, CNBC’s Alex Sherman walks us through the w...

2026-02-28

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Brian Stelter on the Trump Media Shakedown Era

Brian Stelter puts its clearly: "All M&A runs through the Oval Office right now.” So how much does Trump matter in the Netflix/Paramount battle for Warner Bros. Discovery — and what does he want out o...

2026-02-25

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Janice Min on Hollywood’s Crisis; Reed Duchscher on the Creator Boom

Janice Min and Reed Duchscher are both building new media companies in LA. But their perspectives are quite different: Min runs The Ankler, the trade pub that mostly focuses on the fate of Big Media c...

2026-02-18

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How Odd Lots' Joe Weisenthal Turned Curiosity Into a Career, and a Hit Podcast

If Joe Weisenthal didn’t exist, the internet would have to invent him. Because Joe Weisenthal is built for the internet — more specifically, an internet personality: Knows a lot, curious about even mo...

2026-02-11

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Jeff Bezos Used To Be In Love with The Washington Post. What Happened?

Jeff Bezos used to be the savior of The Washington Post. He bought it for $250 million in 2013, and then invested money and energy into turning it around — and it worked.Now the Amazon founder is deci...

2026-02-06

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Who is Josh D'Amaro and Why is He Disney's New CEO?

In February 2020, Disney CEO Bob Iger finally announced his successor: Bob Chapek, who ran the company’s parks business. That didn’t work out.Now Iger is running it back: This time around he’s announc...

2026-02-04

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Running a Newsroom in Minneapolis + How to Make a Game of Thrones For Less

In an ideal world, I wouldn’t be bringing you an interview with the editor of the Minnesota Star Tribune about her paper’s coverage of the killing of Alex Pretti in the same episode where I interview ...

2026-01-28

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Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Owns TV (and Why It Won’t Forever)

Football isn’t just the biggest show on TV — at this point, it’s basically the only reason some TV networks exist. So it’s a very worthy subject for Chuck Klosterman, the provocative and prolific writ...

2026-01-21

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How to Build a Profitable Media Company in 3 years, with Semafor’s Justin Smith

News is a tough business. So how did Semafor, the news startup founded by Ben Smith and Justin Smith, figure out how to turn a profit in their third year of business? Excellent journalism certainly h...

2026-01-14

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Inside Bari Weiss’s Rise: LA, Sun Valley, and the Mogul Network

How, exactly, did Bari Weiss become the head of CBS News? We know that David Ellison, who bought Paramount last year, hired her — and bought The Free Press, the publication she started a few years ea...

2026-01-07

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Craig Finn on Friendship, Fans and The Hold Steady’s Second Life

Craig Finn makes music — as the head of the Hold Steady, and on his solo records — about grown-up lives and bad decisions. Back in 2017, we talked about his life as a working rock musician — and how ...

2025-12-31

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Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt’s Second Act: Less Budget, More Control

PJ Vogt helped invent modern narrative podcasting with “Reply All.” Now he’s running “Search Engine” with a much smaller team and a lot more control. We talk through what he gave up this time around, ...

2025-12-24

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"Neither Side Is Used to Losing." Lucas Shaw on What’s Next for Netflix and Paramount in the Battle for Warner Bros.

The backstory here is that weeks ago, Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw agreed to join me for my 2025/2026 look back/look ahead episode. And then things got way more compelling, because Paramount and Netflix got...

2025-12-17

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Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He’s a Must-Read Media Gossip.

I chat with lots of media reporters. Lachlan Cartwright is a different beast: An Aussie who started out working for Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids in London and New York, and then on to the National Enquir...

2025-12-10

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"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw

In 2013, Netflix wanted to become HBO. Now Netflix is going to buy HBO along with the Warner Bros. Studio, in a blockbuster $83 billion deal. Wowza. Here to talk me through this is Bloomberg’s Lucas ...

2025-12-06

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PBS Lost a Billion Dollars. Now what? With CEO Paula Kerger

The last time I interviewed PBS CEO Paula Kerger was 2019: Donald Trump was President, and Republicans were trying to defund public media — as they had been trying to do for decades. That didn’t happ...

2025-12-03

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What Happens To Media When The Web Goes Away, with Tony Haile

We built the modern media business for the web — for people who visited websites, read articles, and saw ads. What happens when no one does that anymore? That’s been one of the big themes of conversa...

2025-11-26

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Kevin Reilly got to the top of the TV heap. Now he's in AI.

If you watched something on TV that you liked in the past few decades, there’s a good chance Kevin Reilly was involved: at various times he’s held top jobs at FX, Fox, NBC, Turner and HBO Max. But th...

2025-11-19

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What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable

It’s not unusual for a big TV network and a big TV distributor to fight about money. But the Disney-YouTube fight is unusual -- at the bare minimum, because it has stretched out for so long. CNBC’s Al...

2025-11-12

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