What I’m Hearing: Streamer Nosedive, Strike Timetable, and NBC’s NDA Fight

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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, anxiously awaiting the end of this tropical storm/earthquake hellscape, and for Ronan Farrow’s opus on Elon Musk to drop tomorrow.

Programming note: This week on The Town: Lucas Shaw and I debated the best path for ESPN, and profit participation expert John Mass explained how Mission: Impossible 7 will make money. Subscribe here and here, and tomorrow we’re making predictions for the “September surprise” in Hollywood, so email me if you’ve got good guesses.

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