Cynthia Littleton Business EditorSmall independent TV companies are an endangered species at a time when media’s largest conglomerates are focused on the streaming wars and global expansion.The latest episode of the Variety podcast “Strictly Business” features separate conversations with two such business leaders: Paula Madison, CEO of The African Channel, and Bill Rouhana, chairman-CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, which owns Crackle and other AVOD channels.Both CEOs spoke with such conviction about their businesses but also with no illusions about their limitations in the current climate.Madison is a former NBCUniversal executive who ran the network’s Los Angeles O&O and later served as the company chief diversity officer..
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