ESPN: "Linear TV - a strategic purpose for the organisation" (Bob Chapek, The Walt Disney Company)

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"Linear happens to have the benefit of providing a tremendous amount of cash flow, which is really funding the operation not only in a post-Covid standpoint where we're trying to recover from that, but also given the extraordinary investment that we need to make in direct-to-consumer. So it's really providing a very strategic purpose for the...

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Bob Chapek - ©  Disney

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