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New WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on His Vision for the Future of Media

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By tapping Jason Kilar — the co-founder of Hulu and an Amazon veteran — to be its new CEO, AT&T-owned WarnerMedia is sending a signal that its future will be streamed.

In a conversation with Variety just hours after the announcement, Kilar himself says as much. Kilar has known AT&T COO and current WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey, whom Kilar will succeed, for the better part of a decade, when Hulu was but a startup.

But it wasn’t until earlier this year that the pair “started getting serious about conversations” that would lead to this appointment, says Kilar, with Stankey and Kilar finding themselves in agreement about the future of direct-to-consumer entertainment services and the importance of technology. “My belief on the future of media is

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