this was its first trial loss. >>> and now you can get spotify and hulu in a package deal. said wednesday that a $12.99 plan will get you a package with ad-free streaming service and hulu's base package that would allow you to stream tv shows and movies. if you bought them as standalones, it would cost you $18. >>> still ahead, trunk show zoo in belgium welcomes its latest newborn in an ever-growing family. in belgium welcomes its latest newborn in an ever-growing family. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. don't start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happen

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hulu customers would get it for 99 cents for three months.so have to be a current premium spotify member but they plan on opening up to everyone this summer. >> a lot of hurdles to jump through there to get that discount but may be worth it. taking a live look at the new york stock it's because of an overnight tweet by president trump where he clarified an attack in syria may not be imminent. >> one possible site in support of oakland's howard terminal and the team has a high flying idea of how to get fans there. the team is considering a lift to lift people from downtown to the howard terminal site and it could look something like this. this is the tram at oregon health sciences university in portland. the tram could cost between 50,000,100 million dollars. the newsroom was laughing at me because i was saying that trams are in right now but they are. cities across the world are building them. they're building them at disneyworld to connect the parks. >> yeah. there's one at the oakland zoo too. >> they're fun, you know. >> it's just chump ch

we are not on hulu, but most of the others. people love our channels.e hope to get on the skinny bundles overtime and partner with our distributors. they helped us build our business. in many cases we are, we are partnering with at&t on directv now. that is the best way to do it. there is an opportunity for us to go with to the consumer ourselves, which we are already doing in a number of areas. we could also go to those big companies. if you take a look at what the networks spent, three years ago, and how much is being spent by amazon, netflix, apple and google, that is a massive amount of share shift going on. these are global companies, the likes of which we have never seen before. if any one of those companies wanted to offer a compelling family friendly service, we would like to be most of it, or all of it and see how it goes. anywhere you go in the world and use a discovery or animal planet or i.d. -- you say discovery or animal planet or i.d., people know the brand and own them. host: how will you make the decision as ceo? david: the direct to co

or youtube,n hulu but we are on most of the others. people love our channels.e would like to partner with our distributors, because they helped us told our business, and in many cases we are, partnering with at&t on directv now, with brian on comcast, with his offerings. that is the best way to do it regionally. there is an opportunity for us to go direct to consumer ourselves, which we are already doing in a number of areas, but we could also go to those big companies. if you take a look at what nbc, abc, cbs, and fox spent three years ago, and how much is being spent by apple, netflix, and google, that is a massive amount of share shift going on. these are real global companies, the likes of which we have never seen. if any of those companies wanted to offer for $5.99, a compelling family-friendly service, we would either be most of it. we would argue we would like to be most of it, or we could be all of it and see how it goes. anywhere you go in the world and you say "discovery" or "animal h," people value our brands and know them. david w.: how do you make

. ♪ emily: hulu is now reportedly worth $8.7 billion, according to disney.'s is buying most of entertainment assets in a $52 billion all stock deal, which would include taking control of hulu. time warner owns 10% of hulu while disney, fox, and comcast each own a 30% stake. disney would end up with a controlling stake of the video streaming giant. it's one of the most secretive technology companies in the world, and it is mining massive amounts of data being used by everyone from the department of defense to the f ei -- fbi, local law enforcement, and more. it is the brainchild of billionaire tech backer peter thiel. it comes through so cruel wreck -- social media and other digital footprints. the result, a spider web-like creation linking it altogether. bloomberg is shining a light on the shadowy nature of power and tear -- of palantir. i would like to welcome bloomberg's lizette chapman. talk to us about what palantir actually does. spreads --lantir pulls apart -- pulls together different data and minds it for meaning -- and mines it for meaning. emily: th

(grant) spotify and hulu are joining forces to get more subscribers. the two companies unveiled a new subscription bundle today... combining spotify's ad-free music streaming service and hulu's basic package...all for 13 bucks. but if you buy both services seperatly...it costs 18-dollars. right now... only spotify premium subscribers can take advantage of the offer. the deal will be extended to everyone this summer. (vicki) if you plan on hitting the road this summer... expect to pay more at the pump.... the u-s government estimates gas prices will be 14 percent higher than last summer. the price hikes are being blamed by the rise in global oil prices. crude oil is now more than 71 dollars a barrel, its highest price in more than three years. triple-a says the average price for a gallon of gas currently stands at two dollars, 66 cents. but those numbers are even higher here on the west coast.... the average gas price in the bay area is three dollars, 55 cents a gallon. (vicki) ahead at nine... the housing prices around the bay area are crazy expensive.

vonnie: can we deduced that netflix is not losing to the likes of hulu or other services or what havewhat that change very fast? netflix is still in the drive's seat. -- driver's seat. .mazon is there in a big way hulu is there with a renewed focus by their media company owners. the field is that there are deep-pocketed competitors, but no one is putting up growth. have 1.5 million subscribers on a global scale. they dwarf anyone else. the thing will remain in a few years is how will they do in the face of disney, who is starting to talk about its direct to consumer programming with the marvel movies. that will be more competitive. vonnie: we will get that -- more on that in a couple of years. aboutople worry so much how much netflix is spending on content? maybe it cannot continue forever, why do they care? amazon is very small relative to the overall company. for netflix, this company will lose probably $4 billion a year in cash flow, negative free cash flow. that will be driven primarily by the $8 billion in programming investment they are making an program expenses. some point, th

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for that price, you get spotify premium and hulu on demand.he bundle for students in september, but they are expanding the promotion. two of the largest wireless carriers in the u.s. are talking about a possible deal again. according to people familiar with the matter, sprint and t-mobile have restarted talks just five months after efforts to combine collapsed. at the time the issue is how was how control of the combined company would be shared. caroline, this has come up over and over again. it never happens. what could make this time any different? caroline: well, that is the key question, and whether or not because he basically in agreement of price point. why did it fall apart in 2017? the issue was one of control. but this time the markets got excited all over again. this time we saw yet another pop. sprint's sharein price alone. that's a $4 billion increase in market capitalization. we saw t-mobile also got a pop of some $3 billion. so there is hope clearly, which and that is what is getting the market excited. they are hoping they can s

there has been a virtual rise of the multi channel operator like laying or directv now or youtube or hulu those are direct replacements for the traditional linear model. there is some interesting math if in fact they are getting as much traction or gating as many subscribers as the traditional players are losing. but there's all this new innovation and video from alternative sources like little startups that like netflix and video on demand and also a lot of user generated content by smaller producers that do more niche productions typically at a lower cost but the time video is rising not falling. >> let's bring kim into the conversation she works for axios. nice to meet you. i want to jump right into it of the biggest stories of all telecom providers that are watching with the at&t time warner trial which is starting to wrap up in the next week do you have any predictions of the outcome of that case and what that means for at&t? >> and a lot more than at&t but let me start with what i think is the general consensus that as the case has progressed that expectation that at&t will win has

and new episodes are available every wednesday on hulu. back to netflix. >> that was amazing, though. i think you helped us get the word out, you loving the show. >> jimmy: i really love the show so much. yeah i mean -- >> that was so cool. >> jimmy: you owe everything to me. i mean, really no. [ laughter ] you were just fantastic in that. >> thank you. >> jimmy: and i think at the time i was binge watching. i was only up to season four of "gilmore girls." >> yeah. >> jimmy: i made it all the way through, man. [ laughter ] i mean, you're just fantastic. thank you for making that thing. it was a giant success so, i don't know. >> oh, it was fun to do more. i couldn't believe we got to do that reunion. >> jimmy: do you have a a favorite episode? i think it's the one -- you know which one it is. >> you know -- >> jimmy: it has to be. come on. >> i don't know which one you're thinking of. >> jimmy: yeah, you do. [ light laughter ] >> i do? >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> the last one ever? >> jimmy: no. kind of. >> last four words? no. >> jimmy

revolution which would give it control of hulu which arguably as a content company, a play it needs, could manage extremely well. >> right. >> and untangle the rights to the disney product that sky has which are critical for whatever global content play disney wants to pursue. >> scott, do you buy steve burke's argument that because of all this controversy around content on youtube, that isn't properly vetted, advertisers really will turn at least to some degree back to traditional media to spend their money >> oh, that's an extraordinary dose of wishful thinking conservative commentator, a 17-year-old loses a third of her advertisers in seven days, of the 5 million advertisers, seven, including pet boys and [ inaudible ] stop advertising you're not going to see any slow down in business of these guys you have the two most powerful media platforms in the world that due on ply of facebook and google, a lot of patriotic commonwealth-minded ceos of advertisers that would love to withdraw from google and facebook, but they have no choice this is one of the downsides of a duopoly. people

many of those advertisers responded quickly, expedia, hulu, nestle and johnson and johnson. more than a dozen in all. pulling their ads from ingram's show. ingram did apologize to hog saying in the spirit of holy week, i apologize of any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of parkland but hog doesn't seem to consider that apology genuine. >> she only apologized after a third of advertisers dropped out. >> reporter: receive add quick response from hog and said, have healthy reflections this holy week. linda lopez, abc news. >>> a space station could crash this week and why scientists say we shouldn't be worried. >>> and wait until you see the star power this will bring in. >>> scientists say it's hard to know where a chinese space station will land when it falls back to earth but estimate of when it will land. the european space agency believes it will fall sometime tomorrow afternoon. give or take several hours. it will likely land in one of the earth's oceans, probably the pacific. >> parts of it will hit the earth. not much of it. most burn up in

. ♪ ♪ emily: and major partnership in the streaming space, spotify and hulu solidified their partnershipdle of both of their services to consumers. $12.99, you get spotify by premium and hulu on demand with advertisements. they began first offering the bundle to students, but they are expanding the promotion. operating in the heart of the financial capital of the world, new york-based betterment is looking to disrupt the finance industry, going after high net worth clients with robo advising. will cutting edge technology and low fees help usher more clientele into the start up? we asked the ceo of that company. >> we have always used technology to reduce cost, to help people reduce their taxes, and give them full holistic financial planning. it takes a lot of data and processing of that data to deliver financial advice. we also use it on a customer service side to give them more delightful experiences. ai, in terms of what it is actually doing in better managing your money is in the early stages. i think that is true of most of these financial service companies who are just beginning to

but disney needs this because i think they want controlling snare hulu for whatever reason because ink they want to take on netflix at their own game and they want the integrate espn which has been failing with fox sports which is also not particularly great but i think it will be easier to spin off a combination of espn-fox sports. i think hulu is the reason they want it which is why i think this gets done. >> for more details on this deal and the history of the two companies' fiery pasts, head to cnbc.com >>> still ahead, east course hitting the courts one of the game owners the philadelphia 76ers about what's at stake and just how serious the nanne is about e-sports. i'm melissa lee. you're watching "fast money" on cnbc, first in business and worldwide. in the meantime, here is what is coming up on "fast." >>> morgan stanley says the time may be running out on the nine-year bull market. the man behind the call will explain why, and the one sector to buy right now >>> plus it is a question every bitcoin baller is asking >> to be or not to be. >> no. the question is bitcoin a curren

. >> reporter: more than a dozen sponsors dropped her including nestle and hulu after she tweeted the 17-year-old was rejected by four colleges and whines about it. >> it hurts to be rejected by colleges, obviously. >> reporter: they have started the hashtag i stand with laura. today fox news released a statement calling ingraham's absence a pre-scheduled spring vacation. this isn't her first brush with controversy. >> shut up and dribble. >> reporter: last month she faced backlash for scolding lebron james when he publicly discussed politics. this isn't the first time a fox news anchor has announced vacation at the height of a public fallout. >> caution. you're about to enter the no spin zone. >> reporter: bill o'reilly faced backlash from advertisers last year after several sexual misconduct allegations were made public. he was forced out. >> advertisers don't like buzz. they don't like that kind of buzz. they want their product to be exciting and they don't want scandal and they don't want controversy. >> reporter: david hogg is keeping up the boycott saying he's going after the ad

. >> i think you would say do you need hulu on top of netflix? >> these are games -- cricket.ere a huge market for cricket that people have to spend $5 a month to buy. >> i think the key point is original content and the other key point is optionality think of this as a beta test they'll add stuff to this so if you're a shareholder and you think this will be an espn turnaround, this excites you if they continue to innovate they will migrate tons of support center content think about where we are. >> i think it will cannibalize if they did that i would get excited about the product. >> i think this is a new mobile world. this is an app not for you or me. >> what is in the price for stock? people have been beating on espn for so long. the reality heaeality is i don'h expectation are that high. >> this could just be a big grand test to see what things work and resonate. >> i'm with tim. espn was a big deal two years ago and unless they launch the ocho sometime soon. >> the ocho? >> that's lost on you. >> chad ocho -- >> no, the ocho. in "dodgeball. >> no idea. >> i think valuatio

netflix has more subscribers than amazon or hulu yit to own respect from theater chains on film studios. it would make it easier for netflix to qualify for the oscars and other awards. >> thanks very much. coming up on "today in the bay," we want to get a look at that forecast. we have plans. we know it's earth day and just supposed to be beautiful. >> as we take a live look outside in palo alto, we start out with our clear skies checking out the temperature trend for the day and it's going to be chilly to start but a big warm-up headed our way not only today but for the weekend. the full forecast coming up next. >>> we're looking over here at the dublin grade in the distance. heading towards that dublin interchange. dublin the name there, the tri fekt if a for that name. a smooth drive, we'll show you what's going on farther north cong u >>> good morning to you, looking live at san francisco there, you can see the trans america pyramid in the distance. beaconing you to come and visit this weekend where it's going to be gorgeous. >> 4:44 right now. if you or your kids or anyone you know

adam shapiro has the details. >> spot an spotify and hulu areg a $13 a month plan.remium members can get the new bundle. it will be extended to everybody later this summer. back in september, those two companies began offering a bundle to college students for just $6 a month. shares of spotify were actually down more than 3% yesterday. meanwhile, spotify's main rival, apple music, continues its climb in subscribers. the streaming service has more than 40 million subscribers. apple music growing the u.s. subscriber base at a faster rate than spotify. shares of apple are higher in the premarket this morning. tim cookies smiling. soilent green is people and soilent is coming to walmart. the company that makes the meal replacement powder and drink says customers will be able to find it at 450 walmart star ston the u.s. it went on sale at 2500 7-eleven stores last year. up until that point you could only buy it online. shares of walmart are slightly higher ahead of the opening bell. you may have seen this viral video of a 10-year-old's impromptu yodeling performance at h

they include johnson & johnson, hulu, jenny craig, ruby tuesday among them. democratnd new york, a -- staten island, new york. a democrat. caller: it's a pleasure to speak to you. opinion, andike an everybody has one. we have different sides. that's why we have democrats, republicans, whatever. the bottom line is this. the youth of today are taking notice of what's going on.i'm 65 years old . the youth today are seeing columbine, i forgot where the movie theater -- siraj: aurora, colorado. caller: we are seeing all of these things, along with the fact of guns being in the hands of wrong people. whether they are law enforcement or not. that's the whole problem. is whitewashing everything, oh, we are getting fake news, the news is watered down. this is the world of chaos in which we live. i'm a christian, myself. i'm listening to all sorts of people. you have just been attacked because of your last name, but that's another story. people have to realize one thing. it's those people who set the rules, that put the things in order, that is going to make a change.

if you're comcast, you've invested a ton of money in hulu.art of making that happen. why would you want to give up control of that? >> 30% is owned by disney. i'm sorry. fox. >> fox, disney -- >> and comcast >> then there's 10% with time warner >> and disney would forego that platform pre-deal, why >> they wouldn't but they also want sky sky is part of the fox deal. well, that's -- >> you go away and we'll take -- >> we'll take this however, i was traveling in london a few weeks ago for vacation i was visiting friends asking them, how does this work here? >> this is speculation like just for advertisements >> here's what's interesting paid tv is not as penetrated in the uk as it is in the united states sky has room to grow sports rights are different in the uk than here if you're a big fan of the premier sports league, there isn't a single entity that owns those. so between sky and bt, they own a lot of the english premier rights but not all of them he said you know who has the most epl rights? nbc sports it's a product that comcast already k

, which is smaller than all of them but investing to scale and hulu is really just in the u.s.o, different models, but they're all competing for our eyeballs and attention >> wow all right, julia, thank you. >>> coming up, why cannabis sales in california are going up in smoke we will explain. >>> and a home explosion caught on police dash cam the story behind this video. wow. next so, my portfolio did pretty well last year. that's great. but the market was up nearly twice as much. that's a tough pill to swallow. exactly. so i started trading. but with everything out there, how do you know what to buy? well, i think my friend victor has just the thing for you. check this out, td ameritrade makes it easier to find the investments that might be right for you. like our etf comparison tool it lets you see how etfs measure up to one another. analyst ratings and past performance... nice. td ameritrade also offers access to coaches and a full education curriculum to help you improve your skills. that is cool. and if you still have any questions you can always chat with us on facebook

channel operator what people call virtual cable operators, people like sling tv or directv now or hulu, youtube tv. those kinds of companies are in some ways direct replacement for the traditional linear model. there's some interesting maps about whether they are, in fact, getting quite as much traction as, that is, they're gaining as many subscribers as the traditional players are losing subscribers. but then there's all of this new innovation and video coming from alternative sources, some of from little startups, the filo tvs, but netflix and and models like that and then also a lot of user generated content and a lot of niche content by smaller producers, that of doing more niche production, typically at a lower cost but the amount of time that consumers are spending with video is actually rising, not falling. >> host: let's bring kim hart into this conversation. she's the managing editor of axios, a longtime telecom reporter and spent some time at the fcc as well. >> nice to see you. i want to jump right into what of the biggest stories that all telecom providers, specifically cab

podcast and video streaming company that started back in two thousand and eight is partnering with hulu the u.s. based subscription video on demand service to offer seventy five thousand television programs and movies to spotify his current forty million song music catalog spotify which also offers limited free music service currently has seventy one million paying subscribers while apple music has thirty six million although apple has been making recent gains particularly with customers in the u.s. . the interim director of the consumer financial protection bureau or c f p b mick mulvaney admitted yesterday in testimony to the house financial services committee that he has not initiated any enforcement actions since taking control of the agency last november veiny who was run. the c f p b as a second job in addition to serving as director of the office and management budget said quote i have not burn the place down and that he visit seep c.f.p. almost daily i mean not burning the place down and being at work almost every day seems like a pretty low bar guys even for government workers

with samples of the alleged siren gas that was used them hunchy hulu the site of a chemical attack last year after we. donald trump sent fifty seven cruise missiles at the syrian airbase o.p.c. w. is on its way to duma to investigate we've contacted various groups including the world health organization they've cited but have refused to go into any details but for the u.s. there's already enough evidence we definitely have enough proof but now we just have to be thoughtful in our action the national security team is trying to give him as many options as we can and will be thoughtful about it and see what happens what comes next no one can say whether the u.s. will go ahead with a preemptive strike or whether cooler heads will prevail. but reaction now live to london and international affairs commentator jonathan steele thanks for coming on party again i don't know how much you know of the detail of this russia's defense ministry has interviewed people who were featured in that widely circulated video from duma hospital last week of people pouring water over what was said to be people su

the competition, hulu and amazon prime video, people are getting more and more used to consuming tv overnet and that awareness that all these companies are coming around and create a marketplace is helping everybody. netflix, with the strongest content lineup, is benefiting. 26, investors, analysts, don't seem to be concerned about the metrics that you would normally focus on. debt levels pretty high. even normal metrics that would have their investors -- that would have investors scratch their heads, that is the case. -- that isn't the case. they see they need to invest in content to build the scales. it's going to grow into the cost space. i think they're one of the bigger issues that people might have is that come 2019, disney's cannot take some of its content off the platform. we will have to see what happens with some of the fox content depending if that merger happens. there may be some issues on the horizon for netflix but you have to be aware of those. it's a great platform in the next three to five years. we have a great chart here that shows one cloud or one group of clausen ve

we've not really seen that many -- hulu has never been a viable competitor.isney's new product going direct to consumers. could disney be a viable competitor #we haven't seen anybody really challenge netflix . what about promoting their content? outdoor advertising. ryan murphy the executive reduce it. to that, they are pulling some key figures. >> they are spending a tremendous amount in content and it is not just throwing money at hollywood, they are hiring proven show runners to create and run the shows. they have hired the town away. that will drive original programming going forward. -- yvonne -- termst are they doing in -- we are seeing that if you're , this isood these days the golden era. everybody is employed. showss to 500 scripted across television, so everybody is upping their game to compete against netflix and amazon prime. thattional cable networks would be content running reruns, they cannot do that. they have to create original programming. we're --o of fx say were at pt the year ago. quest the subscription models are really driving the, even

andhave amazon, hulu, potential competitors like apple and faith of that have not -- apple and facebook, which have not tipped their hands fully yet, but once they start, they have the kinds of budget netflix has been throwing around. and they have the expertise and relationships and could give netflix serious competition. caroline: i mean, talking of how the share price has performed and the competition there -- i am diving into my bloomberg gtv, if you want to look yourself. we are up 60% so far year to date, they are in the yellow. we see a vast outperformance versus amazon in the blue. henry, what about the world you are looking at, the startup world? are other people trying to build on netflix's's instruction model? henry: absolutely. we look at the industry at l arge. we do see increasing numbers of subscription models. of course, all different media formats from traditional publishing to reinventing audio and podcasts all the way to film and television subscriptions as well. i think there is a huge change in subscription models from investor perspective. they have a very protecta

or hulu or youtube those kinds of companies are in replacements ct linear traditional model. there is some interesting math about whether they are, in fact, getting quite as much traction as -- they are gaining as many traditional s the players are losing subscribers, but then there is all of this and video coming from alternative sources. some of it from little the filo tv's, but bviously netflix and subscription video on demand and models like that. and also, a lot of user content, and a lot of smaller tent by producers, the taste maids of he world that are doing more niche production. typically at a lower cost. but the amount of time that spending with video is actually rising, not falling. hart into ing kim this conversation. editor of a aging telecom company. >> i want to jump into one of biggest stories that all telecom providers, specifically able providers, are watching with the at&t-time warner trial against the doj, which is wrap up in the next week or so. do you have any predictions of outcome of that case and what that means for at&t, win or lose? well, and for a

it is entirely possible you would have a netflix or a hulu, not five or six, but more than one.nies have taken a different strategy for the most part. hulu is more and more focusing , taking a content season on television last season and allowing users to watch video on dema netflixnd is really focused on original content. jason, senior analyst at oppenheimer, inc. you so much. coming up, we will be looking at goldman sachs. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york i , am vonnie quinn. shery: i am shery ahn. this is "bloomberg markets." steady gains for u.s. equities. down up .1 -- .9%. 1%.s&p 500 is up tech and consumers discretionary's leading gains -- tech and consumer y leading gains. volatility is falling. treasury yields looking mixed. the 10-year turned negative. this spread is narrowing for the third consecutive session and is below that 10-year low. the dollar index is paring back a little bit, still up .1% and rebounding from a two-month low. the yuan is weakening. the pboc saying it will cut. get to first word news. mark: the uni

you do have amazon, hulu.ou also have potential competitors like apple and facebook that really have not tipped their hands fully in this game yet, but once they start, they have the kinds of budget that netflix has been throwing around. they have the expertise and relationship. they could also give netflix and serious competition going forward. caroline: talking about how the share price has performed and whether the competition there -- i am diving into my bloomberg if you want to look yourself. you can see how netflix has left the rest in the dust when it comes to share performance. they are in the yellow. we are seeing a vast outperformance by the likes of amazon in the blue versus the likes of alphabet in the purple, apple in the pink. henry, what about the world you are looking at, the start of world? are people try to emulate what netflix does on thie subscription model in anyway? henry: we look at the whole of media. we do see increasing numbers of subscription models across all different media format,

we are not on hulu or youtube, but we are on most of the others. people love our channels.ver time, we will get on those skinny bundles. we would like to partner with our distributors, because they help us build our business. and in many cases, we are. we are partnering with at&t on directv now. we partner with comcast, with charter. that's the best way to do it regionally, but there is an opportunity for us to go direct to consumer ourselves, which we are already doing in a number of areas, in cars and in sports. but we could also go to those big companies. if you take a look at what nbc, abc, cbs, and fox spent a couple, three years ago, and how much is being spent by amazon, netflix, apple, and google, that was a massive amount of share shift that's going on. these are real global companies, the likes of which we have never seen before. if any one of those companies wanted to offer for $5.99 a compelling, family-friendly service, we would like to be most of it or we could be all of it and see how it goes. anywhere you go in the world and you say "discovery" or "animal pl

we are not trying to compete with tv like netflix and hulu are doing, we are trying to be the secondat can provide an augmented experience. emily: ok come i know that you will be bringing us updates throughout the week. thank you so much. ok, another stock we are watching, fox shares surge the most in over three years after investors said they were interesting and tapping into artificial intelligence to go along on the stock. speaking at the stone conference in new york, the ceo said that box is undervalued. this is their biggest intraday increase since january 2015. coming up, should facebook employee more people to stop dodging ads? why the company's automated model may not be the brightest strategy, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: the facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and hot water again. the founder of the popular u.k. personal finance website money-saving expert.com says he is suing facebook for defamation over unauthorized advertisements that use images of him. facebook asked users to report the ads to take them down. he said he has done that, but they show up repeatedly. we take

then you have amazon, hulu, and potential competitors like apple in facebook that haven't tipped theirands in this game fully, but once they start, they have the kinds of budgets netflix has been throwing around, and they have the expertise, the relationships. they could also give netflix some serious competition going forward. >> talking of how the share price has performed and whether there's competition, i'm going into my bloomberg gtv, you can see how netflix has left the rest for dust when it comes to share performance. we are seeing a vast outperformance versus the likes of amazon, versus the likes of alphabet, apple. clearly they are ahead in that respect. henry, one about the world you are looking at, the startup world? further people trying to emulate what netflix does? -- are there people trying to emulate what t netflix does? >> absolutely. it's a very broad revenue. we see increasing numbers of subscription models across all media formats, from traditional press publishing and twitch, through reinventing audio and podcasts, film and tv subscriptions. there is a huge allure

spotify and hulu announced solidifying their partnership i -- by offering a bundle for $12. 99 a monthe bundle for students in september, but they are expanding the promotion . two of the largest wireless carriers in the u.s. are talking about a possible deal again. according to people familiar with the matter, sprint and t-mobile have restarted talks five months after efforts to combine collapsed. at the time the issue is how control of the combined company would be shared. caroline, this has come up over and over again. what could make this time different? caroline: that's the key question. and whether or not because he basically in agreement of price point. why did it fall but -- fall apart last time? control. but this time the markets got excited again. this time we saw yet another pop. a 17% increase in spring price alone. that's a $4 billion increase in market capitalization. $3obile also got a pop of billion. so there is hope clearly, which is exciting the markets. they are hoping they can scale through this. combining the number three and number four player would help leapfrog

. >> well, after that, 13 companies have pulled their ads, among them trip sizer, hulu, johnson & johnsoni thingraham announced t they would be taking a vacation for ieaster. joining us with this week's watch for this, beth, those are just some of the things you will cover, but let's start with laura ingraham. >> i think what i'm watching for is whether anymore advertisers decide to bail and what fox news decides do about it. we have another new one that you didn't include on that list, bayer, which is a major pharmaceutical company. they pulled out of bill o'reilly's back when he was immediately thrust into a huge controversy around the news that fox network had paid out $13 million in settlements for women because of sexual assault he allegations against him. he was fired not that long after. so the question is whether fox will handle the situation in a similar manner. she went on vacation. o'reilly did as well. but i think that is where the similarities end. i think that the chances are that they decide to fire laura ingraham much less. let's face it, the allegation that she made that

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here comes netflix, hulu, where all the writers have gone. >> yes. >> it's great for guys like me. >>r. >> yes, especially for us. if you're an actor today, is a series like this more appealing and more enticing than a major blockbuster feature film? >> it is to me because you aren't relying on an opening weekend, you know? >> yes. >> which, by the way, they know whether you'll be a hit on the opening weekend on the thursday before. you already get the phone calls you bombed. >> they don't really make the phone calls, do they? >> i've gotten the calls, yeah. >> really? >> yeah. >> what's the worst you ever got? >> the worst one wasn't about me, but this is the one you don't want. >> what? >> when you're going, hey, what about this actor for the show, and they go, no, no, he's over. you're going, are they saying -- am i over? when am i over? am i going to get that call? >> it's the worst. >> absolutely the worst. >> i don't know how you've been doing it, this acting business. you have a side gig. >> i love the music. >> you do. >> i do. i've toured with my son's band, the ben daniels b

way fair, hulu, jenny craig, office depot, bayer, today was the first day they did not lose another advertiser to the boycott. they issued this statement today. we cannot and will not allow voices to be censorsed by agenda-driven intimidation efforts. we look forward to having laura ingraham back. that overlooks the fact that bill o'reilly was indeed driven from fox news by an agenda driven effort, the agenda was to stop sexual harassment in the work place. specifically stop bill o'reilly's sexual harassment. and it worked because all of the names you see behind me right now boycotted bill o'reilly's show. and that's who drove him off tv, the advertisers. fox news was doing to let bill o'reilly sexually harass women for as long as he wanted to, for as long as he wanted to, and they were going to help him settle lawsuits as long as he wanted to do that, but they were not going to let him lose advertisers for fox news. that was crossing fox news' line. so those advertisers who drove bill o'reilly out of television probably saved an unknown number of women working at fox news right now from being

amazon and hulu are about it right now.ut netflix is going to see that all change very quickly if at&t and time warner get through the justice department hurdles that are facing them now. there is a very, very strong likelihood that two, three years from now you will see netflix as an acquisition target. >> it's getting so big, i wonder who can digest a deal that size. disney rolling out the new espn plus app is that patriot -- compatriot for netflix. with this, wouldn't people be driven towards netflix as they cut the cord >> it does, but the cord is already cut. what is ironic is netflix has just done a deal with comcast to put a netflix bundle on to cable, but that is a declining market it's irreversible. over the top and streaming is where everybody wants to be. they'll be there and they'll start challenging netflix. netflix to continue its momentum has to do one of two things. either add advertising which is poison for subscribers or raise prices, which is worse >> i hear you. we have to go. at some point we'll get to

then you have amazon, hulu, and potential competitors like apple and facebook that haven't tipped theirands fully in this game, yet. but once they start, they have the kinds of budgets netflix has been throwing around, and they have the expertise, the relationships. so, they could also give netflix some serious competition going forward. caroline: i mean, talking of perhaps how the share price has performed, and whether there is competition there, i am diving into my bloomberg, and you can see how netflix has left the rest for dust when it comes to share performance. up 60% so far year to date in yellow. we are seeing a vast outperformance versus the likes of amazon in the blue, versus the likes of alphabet in the purple, apple in the pink. clearly, they are streets ahead in that respect. henry, one about the world you are looking at, the startup world? are there people trying to emulate what netflix does? build on what netflix does with the subscription model and anyway -- in any way? henry: absolutely. it's a very broad retinue. we do see increasing numbers of subscription models acro