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team's season for 2020 was in the cellar. Next year will be better. Until then, she's got her Bball fix and the rest of us have Netflix, Disney ++, Apple TV +, Amazon Prime, Tubi, Pluto for entertainment when we want, where we want. We considered the GOT house but passed because it looked … lost. It started with AT&T's Randall Stephenson having red carpet envy and borrowing $85.4B to buy Warner to give the company a whopping $165B in corporate debt. To shrink their debt, they've culled their field force and focused on "portfolio rationalization" – making it known the game division was for sale although gaming has shown solid growth. Even though Netflix has proven consumers are price sensitive, the phone guy just shrugged and offered his fantastically confusing bundle for $15 a month saying, "Hey you get what you pay for"…or not. Right after the acquisition, John Stankey, who has since replaced Stephenson, told the HBO crew, they would focus less on quality content and more on a broader, bigger selection. You know, target the lowest common denominator. HBO was the place to go when you wanted outstanding entertainment amid the morass of broadcast TV. Now, they're playing streaming catch-up with creative phone bundles, streaming data caps and new names instead of easy- to-enjoy shows, movies. While the rest of the mobile phone industry was busy building out their high-capacity 5G networks, AT&T figured it

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