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🎧 UTA vs. the Talented Mr. Kassan

The curious history of one of the media world's top connectors

Mar 29

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UTA vs. the Talented Mr. Kassan

The Ankler Podcast

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Hollywood is filled with, er, colorful personalities. The one of the moment: Michael Kassan, the former MediaLink connector-in-chief now in dueling lawsuits with UTA. David Lidsky joins to reveal The Ankler’s investigative reporting into Kassan’s curious legal and financial history, including a $3.3m IRS tax lien taken out on his Beverly Hills home the week before he went to war with UTA. Also: Elaine Low on TV workers’ struggles as unemployment outpaces series cutbacks, and Richard Rushfield on the current studio merger landscape.

Transcript here.

ICYMI

The Wakeup Q1 streaming TV output: How bad was it?
'The Players' Tourney: 2010s-Now The fourth division of the Ankler bracket brings us to the streaming era
Disney and Uni's Moanageddon Game of Release-Date Chicken Plus: Ted and '3 Body'; McKinsey's Latino report everyone is ignoring
Peacock, NFL and Streaming's Dangerous Double Standard How trashing legacy studios for the same strategic moves as their tech rivals warps the competitive landscape in Silicon Valley's favor
'Lose the Romney': Inside Ronna McDaniel's Long Fall How Mitt Romney's niece got trapped in MAGA — even as she hatched her escape plan years ago
🎧 The '10 Pages in One Night' Trick Dreaming of money? Rob Long says Haraka Baraka is the answer
Endgame: WBD and Streaming Wars' Final Scenarios Zaslav is days away from being allowed to sell. Now M&A is inevitable or impossible also for Disney, Apple, Comcast and Paramount
Todd on the Town: 'Road House' to 'All American' Inside Hollywood's premieres and parties with our roving photog
TV Production Decline: 'A Darwin Sort of Event' FilmLA releases new data to me as cast/crew hiring declines outpace series cutbacks as shorter seasons, offshoring hit jobs hard
Michael Kassan Files: PPP Loan, $3.3M IRS Lien and 'Fired Up' Inside the controversial world of a superconnecter, whose financial 'idiosyncrasies' have defined decades