{"podcast":{"title":"Ankler Agenda","slug":"ankler-agenda-5321489","podcast_index_feed_id":5321489,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/AMI5751986813","website_url":"https://theankler.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ff02eff8-72b2-11ee-a400-dfd4969bb866/image/c2e1da7ba6823bddbc9d93bd93127a4b.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"TheAnkler.com","episode_count":264,"summary":"\"Ankler Agenda\" breaks down the headlines, trends and creativity shaping the evolution of Hollywood, the creator economy and entertainment. The show is hosted by Elaine Low, author of Ankler Media’s popular “Series Business” Substack newsletter, who is joined weekly by her colleagues Sean McNulty (“The Wakeup”) and Natalie Jarvey (“Like & Subscribe”) -- in addition to Richard Rushfield, the Ankler himself. Episodes will also be available every Thursday on YouTube.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T18:17:31.300895+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ankler-agenda-5321489"},"episode":{"title":"27 Cable Channels. How Many Survivors?","slug":"27-cable-channels-how-many-survivors","published_at":"2026-03-19T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ankler-agenda-5321489/27-cable-channels-how-many-survivors","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ankler-agenda-5321489","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/AMI1629738249.mp3?updated=1773898417","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/AMI1629738249.mp3?updated=1773898417","summary":"Here’s the irony: Even in the age of streaming, about 85 percent of profits from a merged Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery still would come from linear TV, as Sean McNulty points out. So what do you do with more than two dozen aging cable networks? Spin them off, reinvent them as digital brands or send them to TV’s great dead-brand graveyard in the sky — all while Wall Street watches with a serious stink eye? Enter March Sadness. Sean, Elaine Low and Natalie Jarvey build a bracket to crown the most valuable Warnermount cable asset, with CNN, HGTV, Nickelodeon, BET and more going head-to-head. Which properties are the No. 1 seeds, and which networks are… MTV2? The answers (and the ratings) might surprise you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Here’s the irony: Even in the age of streaming, about 85 percent of profits from a merged Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery still would come from…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2430,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ankler-agenda-5321489/episodes/27-cable-channels-how-many-survivors/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ankler-agenda-5321489/27-cable-channels-how-many-survivors.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}