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Versant CEO Mark Lazarus is Running a Post-Cable Cable Company

Recode Media by Vox Media Podcast Network

May 20, 202640:25Society & Culture

Versant is the new company Comcast created when it spun off CNBC, MS NOW, USA and other cable networks it no longer wanted inside the mothership. That makes Mark Lazarus’ job pretty simple to describe and very hard to do...

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