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Speaker 1: That's a Bloomberg business flash. You're listening to taking stuff.

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Speaker 1: We've got leads and pin Fox on bloom Bird Radio

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Speaker 1: Live at sen Us Tennis Open Flushing Meadows, Corona Park,

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Speaker 1: Queens And it would not be a trip to the

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Speaker 1: Open for me and Bloomberg Radio if we did not

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Speaker 1: sit down and talk with Ken Solomon, he CEO and

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Speaker 1: chairman of the board for the Tennis channel based in

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Speaker 1: Santa Monica. But he's a globetrotter and he's in New

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Speaker 1: York today ringing the nastack. I might add, but a

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Speaker 1: very you've done this before, you and Martina Navratalova, but

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Speaker 1: this time it's a very special ringing for you, Mr Solomon.

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Speaker 1: Why well, it was, as you know, Kathleen, we uh

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Speaker 1: we had a merger with Sinclair Broadcasting Group earlier this year.

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Speaker 1: We were purchased by them, a good friend and the

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Speaker 1: largest independent broadcasting TV station group in the country, among

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Speaker 1: other things, and so we are now not only a

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Speaker 1: bell ringer, but we are a member of NASDAC And

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Speaker 1: it was really fun to be up there and actually

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Speaker 1: be part of the club, not just to be hoping

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Speaker 1: to become part of the club. You know, you have

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Speaker 1: such a long career in television. I would even list

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Speaker 1: all the places you've for thank you, But you know,

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people have been rooting

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Speaker 1: for you because to say we're gonna start tennis channel, okay,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna make it work against ESPN, against CBS

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Speaker 1: or other big networks grabbing the finals and stuff being

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Speaker 1: purchased by Sinclair. What forty seven million households, you're aiming

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Speaker 1: for sixty million at least? Well, actually that yes, you've

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Speaker 1: been reading the press. We came out a couple of

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Speaker 1: period of time, the quality of the network has finally

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Speaker 1: we're now we have we will be at sixty million

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Speaker 1: else has on. So it's very, very exciting at a

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Speaker 1: time when other networks are really experiencing distribution losses due

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Speaker 1: to cord cutting, cord shaving, um, some have the blush

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Speaker 1: has been off the rose and people have realized, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, I'm not getting the sport I thought I

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Speaker 1: signed up for When you know here test Channel, obviously

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Speaker 1: we have of the Tennis hours and uh, you know

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Speaker 1: it's our moment to be going up while everybody else

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Speaker 1: is kind of going down a little bit. So you

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Speaker 1: number one thing on your Listzer and your to do

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Speaker 1: list to keep this going. Well, there's a lot on

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Speaker 1: the to do list. The thing that kept us going

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Speaker 1: was we knew we had the goods. We knew that

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Speaker 1: this sport with a dedicated platform was a better media

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Speaker 1: But on the to do list really is not only

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Speaker 1: scaling domestically and starting to look towards international markets were

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Speaker 1: around the world. We're going to be scaling our digital

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Speaker 1: operations radically. Sinclair has a huge you know, they got

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Speaker 1: a hundred eighty one television stations. Every one of those

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Speaker 1: stations also has websites, their standalone websites. It's a technology

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Speaker 1: with with complementary over the top. Our over the top

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Speaker 1: traditional replacement. It is complementary because there's so much great

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Speaker 1: tennis out there all the time. Well, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: So I guess the question is, and how do you

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Speaker 1: get people maybe who haven't played or don't watch so much,

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Speaker 1: don't come the open to start watching. And I wonder

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Speaker 1: part of the way you do that is if you

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Speaker 1: make a documentary that brings people into the sport and

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Speaker 1: how it's developed in a a very emotional way. Right,

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Speaker 1: anytime you see something about the Cousiers or anything like that,

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Speaker 1: that's a perfect t up, and I think Hoosiers is

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Speaker 1: new documentary that really has been many, many many years

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Speaker 1: in the making called Barnstormers, The Birth of Pro Tennis,

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Speaker 1: And the little known story is that tennis players had

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Speaker 1: to make an incredibly painful choice all the way up

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Speaker 1: until ninety seven that if they were to win. And

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Speaker 1: Rod Labor told this story last night along with you

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Speaker 1: really started this, and Bobby Riggs that and Lou Hode

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Speaker 1: and Pato Gonzalez and Ken Rosewall. All of these guys

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Speaker 1: would win majors, the championships which were not open, they

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Speaker 1: were amateur according to status. And if you took one dollar,

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Speaker 1: if you tried to make a living doing the thing

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Speaker 1: that you loved, which was playing tennis, you were forbidden

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Speaker 1: hard choice of if I just won the Grand Slam,

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Speaker 1: and Rod, as Rod Labor did, if I want to

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Speaker 1: here at Wimbledon. He thought he'd never play there again.

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Speaker 1: for Wimbledon. Who really was the pay set to say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're going to allow a pro match to be played,

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Speaker 1: um after the traditional Wimbledon match, and if they sell

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Speaker 1: out the stands, then we will create pro Open tennis. Um.

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Speaker 1: It is a fascinating story. These guys would literally be

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Speaker 1: each other every single day on a canvas court stretched

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Speaker 1: over ice in barns on wooden floors for not very

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Speaker 1: go to the next place. Um. Meanwhile, their counterparts who

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Speaker 1: or formed by the the the international associations that back

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Speaker 1: those amateur players, we're probably getting paid a fair amount

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Speaker 1: of money. So it is a fabulous story and that

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Speaker 1: Final question, do we have a new story evolving a

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Speaker 1: long awaited story of American tennis players, particularly on the

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Speaker 1: men's side, really stopping up in tennis. Jack Sock, nice

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Speaker 1: this is all that new a tennis channel. If you

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Speaker 1: watch every day, unfortunately now that we're on Basic almost

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Speaker 1: everywhere Basic packages now or will be very soon, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna see people like Stevie Johnson and Jack Sock and

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Speaker 1: you know, Jack just you know, a phenomenal player beating Chillich.

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Speaker 1: beating Rounditch on the court right now. Stevie Johnson down

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Speaker 1: two sets and five two and coming back and taking

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Speaker 1: it every day. He's right. You can watch all this

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Speaker 1: and so we what did your appetite for tennis? Tune

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Speaker 1: into the Tennis Channel, Kenslomon, thanks so much. CEO and

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Speaker 1: Chairman of the board of the Tennis Channel, Sam Langa,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Charlie Wolmer, thank you. Reggie Bazil Backham World Headquarters,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I'm Kathleen Hayes and this is Bloomberg coming

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