More and more I am thinking that the reason the studios are refusing to budge is because any deal other than the workers unconditional surrender would require the studios to make streaming numbers public so workers know what fair pay is, and companies have been lying about streaming numbers so much that making the real numbers public could result in lawsuits and possible criminal charges from the investors they've defrauded.
There has been an outpouring of public support for unions the past few years I don't think the execs would refuse to even make a counter offer unless there was more going on.
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i mean. yeah. that. seems like it's probably the case. there's plenty of history of that, considering the Facebook video pivot thing.
Content is also still an area of upside, the CFO highlighted
Part of the decision-making is also about windowing, or “how do we sequence our content through those various monetization windows,” the CFO noted.
Overall, WBD approaches possible asset sales with “a purely rational mindset,” he said, adding: “There may be other areas where we might be looking at a certain type of monetization of where we would want to retain control. So that makes things a little more complicated, but we’re looking at a couple of things as well.”
