, you're distinguishing directv and you're looking at it as labeling that i view the customers of directvas not necessarily attached to the asset, per se. so, you know, what i clearly believe is that software based technology platforms are really important for our business moving forward and they are able to deliver the kind of product that a customer likes and that's where we're focused on our investment and what we're going to do moving forward. >> right all right. well, let's talk about some of that, hbo max of course launches during this last reported quarter. i'm looking at the sub numbers for hbo at the end of the year, 34.5 million you end june with 36.3 million are you happy with the progress you made, obviously the service was just rolled out at the end of may >> yeah, i am. i'm really proud of what the team has done and there were a lot of execution steps to get this done in the time frame we got it done, to navigate through our existing relationships with many of our wholesale distributors, to build the software platform and do it in a way where it has performed in a where it's

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directv lost 1 million comcast this week probably loses half a million these are big chunks coming oute multi-channel ecosystem your second question, andrew, that's been the one that everyone has been looking for. this is not just an issue for people looking at the cable ecosystem. this is a big issue for sports leagues. if i'm sitting at the nfl, if i'm roger goodell, the big multi-billion dollar question, these companies whether you're talking disney, nbc, this contract may be great, but four, five years down the road they need new bidders if you remember back to 1994, fox came in with a knockout bid for cbs and started the race we have right now for sports rights they need the amazons, they need the apples so far amazon has dabbled. you've seen them do a little bit with baseball and tennis over seas they've dabbled. apple has no interest. we think they come out with a knockout bid for monday night football, sunday ticket, something big but it hasn't happened so big tech has literally not stepped in facebook shown really no interest anymore this he have' given up on sports youtube, g

at&t wants to spin off directv the spac world is now becoming a place of liquidity for pe firms in a significant way that's been the case, but even more so. even major companies that are looking for potentially a strategic spin of some kind if they can do it there is the biggest numbers so far, again, the ackman spac will blow them all away, but they keep getting bigger and bigger martin franklin. >> martin franklin. >> who told us a few weeks ago we're a frothy world in spacs, he is launching another one, viking is a partner there as well this keeps going, jim, it's amazing to watch and it has become a real feature now. it's not just sort of a corner of the market. >> david, explain to people why this is different from private equity buying a company. >> well, it's -- first of all, you are reverse merging into a public entity, you're getting new capital as a result of doing that and you are -- i mean, you are subject to a shareholder vote by the spac itself, the shareholders can reject or accept, almost always they do accept, although ackman changed the structure in his to try to ma

i have directv. there is channel 200. you can get a news mix. it is a four channels. msnbc, cnbc, bbc, and fox. you can flip from one to the other in a foursquare and watch what they are doing, what fox covers at that moment, what msnbc covers at that moment. i am a flipper. host: what do you get by doing that? caller: you can see what they are showing you, covering at that moment. clearly, if you watch a lot of fox news, it is all rosy trump. all of the sidebars are the 2000 additional cases that they have today in the coronavirus debacle. those are the little sidebars but otherwise it is trump, trump, trump. he is a good guy and all these people are on his side. i'm not against the guy. i did not need to know as much as i know about him. i gave him a chance, i did not vote for him. after the first year, i said, this does not seem to be right. this does not seem to be going in a direction that is good for everybody. my neighbors, my plumber and my electrician, are angry! host: do you think you are going to vote for joe biden? caller: no. i do not think so. i do not k