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What I’m Hearing … About the AT&T Mess

Stephenson, Stankey, Kilar: Who's Really to Blame

Matthew Belloni
August 3, 2021

I first talked to John Stankey about three years ago, on the day that AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner was finally approved and he became the leader of the new WarnerMedia unit. It was an unexpectedly tense conversation, so I figured I’d toss the new overseer of HBO, Warner Bros. and the Turner networks a relative softball question to close our interview. What shows are you watching?