Decoder with Nilay Patel
01:10:04 · Matt Strauss, Nilay Patel
[01:10:04] S5: Well, I think what's next for NBC Media Group, as we talked about, is we're gonna... You know, this time next year, we are likely gonna be a separate company as part of the new NBCUniversal. [01:10:14] S4: You got to come back. There's a bunch of questions where I knew I wasn't going to get answers because the deal isn't closed yet. When that closes, you got to come back because I have a million questions. [01:10:21] S5: I will definitely come back. I'm really looking forward to it. I mean, think the other piece as you know is we had our Q3 earnings last week. We talked a lot about Peacock and how we had a very different strategy with Peacock from the others when we launched our service six years ago. But I'm really proud to share that Peacock was profitable in Q3 for the second consecutive quarter. We had $261,000,000 of EBITDA. That's $470,000,000 better year over year. I think the team has done an unbelievable job, and I feel really good about our momentum and continuing to grow. And it's kind of good proof that there's not one way to go to market. There's not one strategy or approach. You gotta play your hand and do your strengths, and you're gonna see us continue to do that at NBCUniversal. [01:11:10] S4: There's some... There's something very... We didn't even talk about what AI might do to the cost structure of video. When you come back, we're gonna get into it. Mac, thank you so much for being on Decoder. [01:11:18] S5: Thank you so much.
01:11:18 · Matt Strauss, Nilay Patel
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