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Low Quality Facts
Low Quality Facts • mastodon (AP)
The next time you're worried that you're not doing great at your job, just remember that someone probably made six figures to change HBO to HBO Max to Max.
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Exiled New Yorker - Connie
Exiled New Yorker - Connie • mastodon (AP)
Isn’t *that* the freaking truth?
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Delta Sierra
Delta Sierra • mastodon (AP)

I hate this toot, thanks!

Mostly because it's 100% correct.

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mausmalone
mausmalone • mastodon (AP)

The history is so weird if you grew up in the 80s/90s and always understood HBO and Cinemax as being at war.

HBO finally won that war, bought Cinemax, and renamed HBO Go to HBO Max to reflect that it had the content of both and, honestly, this was their apex.

And then in this crowning moment where they were the last premium cable channel standing, the freaking Discovery Channel bought them and wiped the name HBO from the face of the Earth. Total obliteration.

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Louis Ingenthron
Louis Ingenthron • mastodon (AP)

That is a low quality fact. It was actually 9 figures, and his name was David Zaslav.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/29/discovery-ceo-zaslav-gets-a-big-fat-raise-despite-being-terrible-at-his-job/


Discovery CEO Zaslav Gets A Big Fat Raise Despite Being Terrible At His Job

By now we’ve well established that this particular series of media mergers — which began with AT&T’s doomed acquisition of Time Warner and ended with Time Warner’s subsequent spin off…
Techdirt
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Social Diaspora Bard
Social Diaspora Bard • mastodon (AP)
True story: back when I was a freshman there in the late '80s, UNR in Reno hired a consulting firm to help them rebrand. I don't remember how much they spent, but the most visible change was removing a hyphen and replacing it with a comma: U. of Nevada-Reno to Nevada, Reno.
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macOS Ken Ray
macOS Ken Ray • mastodon (AP)
Apple paid somebody to name a movie about F1 “F1.” #youriphonedollarsatwork
#youriphonedollarsatwork
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Alex
Alex • mastodon (AP)
Six? Seven, at least
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John
John • mastodon (AP)
Next up, Taco Bell to become 'Bell', and Burger King to become 'King'.
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Pippin
Pippin friendica
@John @Low Quality Facts I misread that as "Burger King to become Bing". Weirder things have happened, I suppose.
@Low Quality Facts @John
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Fintanz
Fintanz • mastodon (AP)
in a corporate that large, it would have been a committee of people earning seven figures, agreeing to a proposal they paid a consulting firm six figures to prepare, who got an intern to write for free.
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demofox
demofox • mastodon (AP)
7 figures, I'm sure!
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Matthias Rex🦣
Matthias Rex🦣 • mastodon (AP)
How do I get into the boardroom descision racket? Because I already have a lot of practice making stupid decisions about absolutely trivial matters.
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Dave :unverified:
Dave :unverified: • mastodon (AP)
... and someone paid $44000000000 to change :twitter: to X
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