Barry Diller Weighs In From His Yacht About The Strikes, Urging Media Companies To “Get Out Of The Room” With Netflix And Tech Giants In Order To Hammer Out A Separate Deal

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Longtime media potentate Barry Diller called on media companies to “get out of the room” with tech giants and instead hammer out a separate resolution to the writers and actors strikes. “They should certainly get out of the room with their deepest fiercest and almost conclusive enemy, Netflix, and probably with Apple and Amazon,” Diller said on the podcast On with Kara Swisher. “Because Netflix is in one business and they are the rulers of the business they’re in.

The other two, Apple and Amazon Prime, are in completely different businesses that have no business model relative to production of movies and television.” The former Fox, Paramount and Universal boss, who has been more focused on InterActive Corp.

and other digital ventures over the past 20-plus years, called in from his yacht, Swisher said in an introduction to the chat. “I don’t know where he was, floating around, heading to Venice,” she added.

The bulk of the interview concerned non-entertainment topics, including Diller’s support of Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie and his efforts to rein in tech companies’ use of artificial intelligence in the publishing arena.