David Folkenflik
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Cable TV still makes a lot of money, but ratings and revenues are ultimately headed in the wrong direction.
In 2022, Discovery took on billions of dollars in debt to acquire Warner Brothers Media from AT&T.
Earlier this year, company CEO David Zasloff announced he intended to divide the company into two to split streaming and Hollywood holdings from its conventional cable properties, such as CNN, TLC and such as CNN, TNT and Discovery.
Then Skydance founder David Ellison, who recently acquired CBS's corporate parent Paramount,
made an unsolicited bid for the entire company.
That opened the door to more suitors, such as the major streamers, though a top Netflix executive recently said his company was in the business of building assets, not buying them.
Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women.
Stamberg said NPR's first program director, Bill Simmering, was brave to put her behind the microphone.
She hosted All Things Considered and Weekend Edition and then became a special correspondent.
She found joy in the creativity of culture, the spark of science, even the humanity in politics.
To this day, Susan Stamberg's recorded voice announces each floor on the elevators at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
You know, if you have a drug that is going to help you fight your cancer, put you in remission or potentially cure your cancer, of course, you know, anybody would do whatever they could to get that paid for.
You know, if you have a drug that is going to help you fight your cancer, put you in remission or potentially cure your cancer, of course, you know, anybody would do whatever they could to get that paid for.
You know, if you have a drug that is going to help you fight your cancer, put you in remission or potentially cure your cancer, of course, you know, anybody would do whatever they could to get that paid for.
Patients who have different health plans with high co-pays or large out-of-pocket costs, who can't find another way to get that covered, they've really suffered. I've talked to patients who stopped taking the drug for a period of time because it was not financially possible for them. Or, you know, raided retirement funds, took out a mortgage, skimped on other things like groceries even.
Patients who have different health plans with high co-pays or large out-of-pocket costs, who can't find another way to get that covered, they've really suffered. I've talked to patients who stopped taking the drug for a period of time because it was not financially possible for them. Or, you know, raided retirement funds, took out a mortgage, skimped on other things like groceries even.