Maya Dirado capped off her brief and illustrious Olympic career with a gold medal Friday night. The 23-year-old phenom came first in the 200-meter backstroke with a time of 2:05.99, beating out Katinka Hosszu and earning her fourth medal of the Rio Olympics. Dirado won her first gold as part of the women's 4x200 freestyle relay, and also scored a silver in the 400-meter individual medley and a bronze in the 200-meter individual medley. "I wanted to medal in all three of my events. Then I got put on a relay and we got gold ... I just won! I don't even know what to say,...
- 8/13/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
Video on demand continues to expand around the world every day, which means that American TV and film content will find an ever-wider potential audience globally. Netflix declared this week that its launch in the UK and Ireland reached one million subscribers in just seven months, though one analyst points out that the cost of the company’s international expansion is losing it $100 million per quarter, according to Georg Szalai in the Hollywood Reporter. At the same time, a Paid Content piece by Robert Andrews looks at just what it will take for Netflix to build enough content capital in the UK to compete with the dominant BSkyB: Sky Movies, which has nearly five million subscribers, has exclusive UK deals with the big six Hollywood studios to show movies after the post-cinematic DVD window. Netflix’s selection is thinner, poorer and later. Netflix will need to spend heavily to unpick that lock.
- 8/21/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
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