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Extremely dissatisfied with it. Its also become an extremely wealthy community. Charlie we conclude this evening with josh sapan, the president and ceo of a. M. C. Networks. Think about walking dead, mad men and breaking bad. Those are all his programs. On the dramatic content side i think its probably fair to say that the sopranos was maybe the first show that put everybodys heads upsidedown and was surprising and was dramatic with an antihero. Mad men when we did it seven or eight years ago was also surprising because of the nature of the drama was unlikely and people were not as one thought they would be. We thought it was breaking bad. Then there was this proliferation of other dramas that were surprising. Today theres a whole abundance of them. I think one of the things that happened was that technology, including that which you spoke about netflix and v. O. D. , both on cable and via the internet met quality story telling. Charlie leibovich and sapan coming up. Funding for charli ....
Numbers look out as we kick off cybermonday. Which retailers crushed it and which ones were crushed . If you were keeping track, the dow added 421 points last week and bulls argue it could add even more if european leaders settle this dispute over greek aid. Well discuss the potential impact as they meet in brussels right now. A big day for analyst upgrades. Research in motion, facebook, yahoo well go over those and see why citi needs three analysts to initiate coverage of apple. Well begin with retail sales picture from this past weekend. 139 Million Consumers shopped during black friday weekend. Thats up from 132 million last year. Total spending up to 59. 1 billion to 54. 4 a year ago. Average Holiday Shopper spending 434 over the weekend. Sales on black friday fell 1. 8 from the same day a year ago setting the stage for today known as cybermonday. American shoppers wi ....
Way people communicate now which is more by email than by snail mail. Let me pick up on something you touched on which is the issue of secrecy and the secrecy surrounding government requests hrough isps and the isp efforts in promoting transparency. Perhaps you could talk about that. Thank you for having me here today. Transparency is something that is really important to us. We think the current debate is lacking good data about the volume and nature of government requests which we think would help inform the broader debate about updating. Theres no question that government has legitimate interests in this data and legitimate needs. We also think our users in the broader public could benefit from good data about the nature and types of requests we receive. The types of data that we respond that we return in response and how we push back is important. There is a percentage of times where we will not give any date in response to a government request. We released the first iteration of o ....