HBO
HBO has to cut staff too, like everyone else at Time Warner.
Netflix does it. HBO says it’s going to do it. YouTube says it might. Now comes Barry Diller’s video site.
Re/code writers appeared on TV and online to discuss this week’s headlines.
Comcast may be okay with that.
Apple gave us a bunch more stuff to talk about, and HBO and CBS are ready to make their content available to non-cable subscribers.
Talking tech on CNBC, NPR and elsewhere.
Hint: It’s old, and it rhymes with “cable TV.”
Plus, spelunkers locate Netflix share price, a theory on the Nexus Player and The Walking Dead (Drunk).
Uh oh. “This quarter we over-forecasted membership growth.”
Plus, Macworld Expo, Microsoft’s YouTube takedown notice carpet bombing, and a North Carolina shark feeding frenzy.
The company will go “beyond the wall” and launch a “stand-alone, over the top” version of HBO in the U.S. next year.
This morning, investors get to hear how Time Warner thinks it can grow. HBO’s plans may be the most interesting.
Has Netflix really changed the TV business? And will it change the film business?
This won’t revolutionize the movie business. But it will generate lots of attention for the streaming video service. Smart.
The Jill Soloway dramatic comedy could represent a breakout series for the Seattle company and its efforts to create original content.
Of course there is a lot of fine print. Still, interesting.
Tricky balancing act. How’s that going to work?
Google has collected links to the real-life shooting locations of favorite shows as Facebook and Twitter try to get celebrities to share Emmy moments.
Totally theoretical! But fun to think about it -- and more realistic than it would have been a couple months ago.
Plus, Supreme Court decision prediction algorithms, Mark Zuckerberg’s employee motivation techniques and another dumb drone accident.
Pay TV is still shrinking, but not as fast as before.
“That’s not bullshit, it’s repurposed bovine waste.”
HBO and the cable guys might push more “skinny” TV + broadband bundles. But they’re still not splitting up.
Make no mistake, a bet on Time Warner is an $80 billion-plus bet that pay TV isn’t going away. Rupert Murdoch wants in. What about Disney, Apple or Google?
The HBO host responds to the response to his response. Dramamine, please.
The Internet video service now boasts 35.7 million domestic subscribers.
Is age really just a number among Silicon Valley CEOs?
What do the cable guys think about that?
Should Silicon Valley panic yet? Probably. Will it? Not yet.
HBO will get more than $300 million over the course of a three-year deal with Amazon.
HBO wants more digital money -- without giving subscribers a reason to cut the cord.
For those who have had to watch that umpteenth sex scene from Lena Dunham with your mom sitting next to you.
The week in review, Re/code style.
An open letter from a high school dropout-turned-entrepreneur.
The week in review, Re/code style.
Maybe it takes a nerd to make fun of nerds. Here’s our Q&A with the man behind HBO’s new show.
“The Valley is a place that takes itself too seriously,” said actor Thomas Middleditch. “So it’s time for a wedgie.”
“You can’t call it satire when you are showing it like it is.”
Re/code’s first-ever event kicks off in a few weeks. It’s going to be a good one.