Peter Kafka

Recent appearances

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  Why does everyone think they can fix Warner Bros.?

  October 10, 2026 · 📺 Decoder with Nilay Patel

  Acquiring Warner Bros. never goes well for anyone. AOL failed, AT&T failed, and Discovery failed — although it did succeed in flipping the assets to David Ellison’s Skydance. So I’m talking to Peter Kafka, Business Insider chief correspondent and host of Channels, to see if Skydance has a chance at succeeding where nobody else has yet. Spoiler alert: Peter doesn’t think Skydance has a clear business plan, either. But he’s got some really good guesses about what might come next. Decoder is a Signal Awards finalist in the Business category! You can vote to help us win here: https://bit.ly/47ws…

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  Why did Comcast ever buy NBC? | Decoder

  July 09, 2026 · 📺 Decoder with Nilay Patel

  Our guest today is Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUniversal entertainment company. This dream, that you can combine distribution with big splashy entertainment properties, has failed time and again. But Comcast tried the content plus pipes strategy for longer than most. So we discussed what happened in the media and broadband industries over the last 15 years, and what mig…

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