Digital Social Hour
The Rise & Fall of Cable TV – What’s Next for Media? | Larry Namer DSH #1224
07 Mar 2025
🔥 Larry Namer on Building E! Entertainment, Hollywood’s Future & The AI Revolution 🚀 In this eye-opening episode, we sit down with Larry Namer, the co-founder of E! Entertainment Television, to discuss his journey in media, the future of Hollywood, and how AI is revolutionizing content creation. We dive into: ✅ How E! Entertainment was built with just $2.5M ✅ Why AI is changing Hollywood faster than ever ✅ The decline of traditional TV & the rise of digital platforms ✅ How social media & streaming are reshaping entertainment ✅ The truth about content creation & why storytelling still wins This episode is packed with insider knowledge, industry secrets, and expert predictions for the future of media! 📲 Follow Larry Namer & Learn More: 🔗 Website: Lhttps://www.ljnmedia.com/ 🔗 Facebook: Larry Namer 🔗 Amazon Book: Off Script: A Business & Life Memoir ⏱ CHAPTERS 📌 00:00 – How AI is Changing Hollywood for Writers & Creators 📌 03:15 – The Creation of E! Entertainment & Early Challenges 📌 07:30 – How Streaming Took Over TV & The Death of Cable 📌 12:10 – Social Media’s Influence on Entertainment & Film 📌 15:45 – The Rise of International Markets & Media Expansion 📌 20:20 – How AI is Disrupting Screenwriting & Film Production 📌 24:10 – The Future of Holograms & Virtual Entertainment 📌 28:40 – Why Hollywood is Losing Viewers to Digital Platforms 📌 32:15 – The Power of Short-Form Content & Why It’s Exploding 📌 35:00 – Larry’s Advice for Entrepreneurs in Media & Entertainment 🔥 Apply to Be on the Podcast & Business Inquiries: 🎙 APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application 📩 BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected]
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Writers over 50 in Hollywood don't get work. They're heavily discriminated against. Really? But I took 10 writers and trained them in how you prompt. So when the strikes finally got settled, everybody was like, now, okay, there are rules for how you employ AI related.
So all of a sudden, the writers over 50 were the only ones who really knew how to use all the AI tools and stuff, and they found themselves working more than ever. Nice. Yeah, because AI can probably come up with some crazy scripts.
Yeah. At the end of the day, it's still storytelling. You have to be a storyteller. I mean, I don't care what platform you're producing for. You're telling a story. And these guys were fabulous. It's just they were, you know, Oscars and Emmys and Golden Globes and stuff. But yet once you hit 50 years old in Hollywood, they kind of put you out the pasture.
But now they're bringing them back because they know how to use the tools that are now available. Yeah. All right, guys, got a legend here today. We got Larry and just dropped a new book, right? Yeah, I finally after people bugging me to write it for a long time, I finally did it. And it literally just came out on Amazon last week. I love it. And what was the core messaging of the book?
Well, it's kind of unusual because people have been asking me to do the book, and I've always refused because I said I'm not ready to write a last chapter yet. But I've been a foodie literally all my life, so if I didn't do television and stuff, I would probably be a cook in a restaurant. So it's a combination of a bio and a cookbook.
Those are the recipes that inspired me in different phases of my life and then anecdotes of things that happened in my life then. But it's a good book for entrepreneurs. I love it. it's kind of you know i i was in school i was the boy least likely so oh yeah you got voted that oh god yeah i got voted that too most likely to fail and i would i was definitely that and were you really shy introverted
Um, yeah, I played sports. Um, but yeah, I mean, pretty much. Yeah. Very shy, introverted and stuff. Uh, the family were immigrants and, you know, they, they, they kind of kept a close rein on the kids and stuff. So just in growing up. Which is ironic because you ended up making a living in the entertainment industry.
Yeah. And people ask, they say, was that something designed? And no, it wasn't. It was just I couldn't get a job in New York. So I ended up getting a temporary job in a cable company when nobody really knew what cable was. And.
um it was kind of odd because i was working under the streets of new york putting the wires together and um i just kind of grew up in the cable business and then uh i came out to la to build the first 61 channel cable system ever built and um uh the company that i worked for moved back to toronto and uh you know you're a brooklyn kid you're here you're in la everybody's going to
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