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    Streaming wars

    John Stankey, the head of WarnerMedia, announced a new streaming service coming next year with content from its massive film and TV library.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Matthew Belloni • Oct 11, 2018 • 3m Listen

    Netflix has been bulking up its original content, but some of its most-watched shows are still older library content like 'Friends' and 'The West Wing.' At some point, the companies that own those shows will pull them from Netflix and put them on their own streaming services, whether that be Disney or Warner Brothers or services still yet to be announced. Plus, already existing streamers like Amazon and Hulu are working to get more original premium original content as well. Viewers will have to pick and choose between streaming services, and if you want them all, it could well end up costing just as much as the big cable bundles used to.

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      Matthew Belloni

      founding partner of Puck News

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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      Kaitlin Parker

      Producer, 'The Business' and 'Hollywood Breakdown'

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