Netflix have now officially been operating for over a quarter of a century and have largely largely Updede the traditional business models around film and televisionFor better and worse. Speaking in A new interview with VarietyThe Ted Sarandos Reminded the reception he received from long -term managers to choose to release all seasons with shows at once and created the Binge model.
“I got a phone call from CBS Head Les Moonves“Sarandos said,” Who said, “Do you know how TV works?” He goes, “You give them one at a time, and you can pull it out over 13 weeks before you need to find something new.”
Forced to resign from CBS over a number Prosecutions of sexual harassment and denied his departure package of $ 120 millionMoonves is largely at the end of the entertainment industry while Sarandos is now continuing to drive it forward. Between him and the Chairman of the Board Reed Hastings, they saw a vision for how the Internet would change display habits and get stuck in their weapons, even contributed to the case in the physical media industry that started its company to stay forward.
“When I first met Reed, he described Netflix almost exactly as it is right now,” Sarandos told Variety. “He did not use the word” streaming “. He called it” download of videos “then, but he was very clear that he thought all entertainment would enter the home on the internet.
When it comes to the creative side of the business, it turns out that there were lessons to learn from Moonves because Sarando’s first prestige goal for the studio’s production must be adapted when Netflix began to understand what their audience was interested in looking at.
“Ted really kept us focused on HBO as the goal,” Hastings said. “He wanted us to see ourselves as a content network rather than an Amazon-like dealer. Later he came to regret it something, because he said it should have been HBO and CBS. Because we did not want it to just be elite programming, we wanted it to be mainstream too.”
