Business Wars

By Wondery

What's Business Wars about?

Netflix vs. HBO. Nike vs. Adidas. Business is war. Sometimes the prize is your wallet, or your attention. Sometimes, it’s just the fun of beating the other guy. The outcome of these battles shapes what we buy and how we live.
Business Wars gives you the unauthorized, real story of what drives these companies and their leaders, inventors, investors and executives to new heights -- or to ruin. Hosted by David Brown, former anchor of Marketplace. From Wondery, the network behind Dirty John and American History Tellers.

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Introducing 1865

06.18.2019

1865 starts with the moment Lincoln got shot and follows the journey of the Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton. Stanton continues to push through Lincoln’s progressive agenda while dealing with the nuances around the assassination. But the moral gravity of ...

Business Wars episodes:

06.18.2019 Introducing 1865 1865 starts with the moment Lincoln got shot and follows the journey of the Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton. Stanton continues to push through Lincoln’s progressive agenda while dealing with the nuances around the assassination. But the moral gravity of ...
06.17.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Fighting the Crocodile \| 6 It’s a new century and the beer industry is changing fast. Beyond America, new brewery empires are forming and they want to buy their way into the lucrative U.S. market. And Miller is the first to fall, bought out by ...
06.12.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Surprise Attack Dog \| 5 It’s the 1980s and Miller’s glory days are over. Drinkers are deserting High Life and Anheuser-Busch is about to launch a $50 million attack on Miller Lite. With the pressure mounting, Miller hunts for a way to revive its momentum. ...
06.10.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Miller Killers \| 4 It’s the late 1970s and Miller is hurtling towards the top of the brewing industry on the back of High Life and Lite. Anheuser-Busch’s new leader August Busch III knows he must act fast to stop the threat. But before ...
06.05.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - It’s Miller Time! \| 3 Come the early 1970s, Miller has a new owner: tobacco giant Philip Morris. Armed with the Marlboro maker’s millions and marketing skills, Miller is about to shake up the beer business with a campaign targeting blue-collar workers thirsty for a ...
06.03.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Swinging for the Majors \| 2 By 1933 Prohibition is over, and that means the race is on to dominate a beer market that’s been reset. Under the leadership of Anheuser-Busch heir Gussie Busch, the company is out to reclaim the beer throne. But there’s a ...
05.30.2019 Introducing Inside Star Wars Heroes, villains, action... all set in a galaxy far, far away. Join Inside Star Wars and go behind the camera and find out how one of the most iconic series in film history came to be. Listen now at: http://wondery.fm/ISWED
05.29.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - The Beer Barons \| 1 It’s 1893 and Chicago is about to host The World’s Columbian Exposition. It’s going to be the biggest show the world’s ever seen, and that means it’s time for Adolphus Busch to shine. He’s the owner of Budweiser brewery Anheuser-Busch ...
05.27.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - What’s Next for Digital Streaming \| 9 On today's special interview episode, renowned media futurist Rich Greenfield returns to fill us in on the latest developments in the streaming wars and how these changes might impact viewers in the coming years. Greenfield is a media and tech ...
05.22.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Streamers Everywhere \| 8 It’s spring 2019, and the Mouse House is determined to challenge Netflix for streaming supremacy. Disney CEO Bob Iger draws gasps at an industry event when he announces the new Disney Plus streaming service will cost just seven bucks a ...
05.20.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Break the Wheel \| 7 Netflix goes from being a streaming company to a movement in which consumers all over the world decide what to watch, and when and how they watch. The future that Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph envisioned two decades earlier has ...
05.15.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Binge \| 6 Hollywood execs thought Netflix was crazy to give up advertising and spin off opportunities by letting viewers flop on a couch and watch a whole season of a show all at once. But Netflix knew it was onto something. All ...
05.14.2019 Justin Long Gets Personal on "Life is Short" \| 1 Life is Short with Justin Long finds the actor sitting down with some of the funniest and most intriguing people of today, like Dax Shepard, Olivia Wilde and Neil Patrick Harris. No topics are out of bounds, and no questions ...
05.13.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - HBO Gets in the Game \| 5 We take a step back to explore how a little company called Home Box Office went from serving B-movies to 325 homes in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania to become the juggernaut that we know as HBO. In the process, HBO, became ...
05.08.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - The Digital Divide \| 4 You know the expression “content is king”? Well it turns out, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it’s a hard-working algorithm that burrows into customer habits and viewing patterns. With that, Netflix had a clear upper hand on Blockbuster. That, and the ...
05.06.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Dirty Tricks \| 3 Thinking like your enemy is the best way to beat them, and during the war, Blockbuster tried every trick in the book to get inside Netflix. Sometimes they succeeded — sending “housewives” into warehouses as spies — and sometimes things ...
05.01.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Origins \| 2 After Hastings pleaded with Antioco to buy Blockbuster online, Antioco agreed to present Hasting’s proposal to the board. What he didn’t tell him was that he was pushing the board to reject the offer so Netflix would wither and die. ...
04.29.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Sudden Death \| 1 The way we watch is changing so rapidly that we’ve decided to revisit our very first and most popular Business War: Netflix versus Blockbuster. We’re re-airing an expanded eight-part series following Netflix’s battles against HBO and today’s new entrants into ...
04.24.2019 Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - The Future of Cars \| 4 Electric. Diesel. Driverless. Automobile Magazine’s New York Bureau Chief, Jamie Kitman, joins to talk about the latest developments in the car industry and what’s next for Ferrari and Lamborghini. Support us by supporting our sponsors! Zip Recruiter - To try ...
04.22.2019 Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - Supercar Speed Freaks \| 3 It is 1997. For decades, Lamborghini has struggled to survive as a company, and to compete with its nemesis Ferrari. All that is about to change. Volkswagen buys Lambo and injects it with cash and bulletproof German engineering. For the ...
04.17.2019 Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - Lamborghini Spawns an Icon \| 2 It’s 1970. At his factory in Italy, Ferruccio Lamborghini is desperate to build a car that can outdo his rival, Enzo Ferrari, whose Ferrari factory is just 20 miles away. With the help of genius designers and engineers, Lamborghini comes ...
04.15.2019 Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - The Gauntlet \| 1 It’s the early 1960s. In Maranello, Italy, Enzo Ferrari has made a name for himself building the most exotic road cars in the world. But when a dissatisfied customer named Ferruccio Lamborghini shows up to complain about his Ferrari’s busted ...
04.10.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Today's Toys \| 7 Bratz. Monster High. Funko. These are the toys that rule the roost in 2019. Veteran toy industry analyst Sean McGowan joins to discuss the big business of toys today, how Hasbro and Mattel can compete, and what’s going on with ...
04.08.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Screen Dreams \| 6 With the world plugging into the Internet, toys are under pressure. Kids are swapping plastic play for screen-based entertainment and both Mattel and Hasbro need to adapt. The question is: how? Mattel’s also finding out the hard way that Barbie’s ...
04.03.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - The Shotgun Wedding \| 5 A few months ago, Mattel’s revenues were just fifty million dollars behind Hasbro’s. But now that Hasbro’s swallowed Tonka—the classic maker of Nerf, Play-Doh, and Monopoly—Mattel is half a billion dollars behind, and CEO John Amerman isn’t happy about it. ...
04.01.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Resurrection Joe \| 4 It’s the early 1980s and things are not looking good for Hasbro. The company hasn’t had a hit since Hungry Hungry Hippos; its founding CEO Merrill Hassenfeld has just died; now Star Wars dolls have just about gobbled up the ...
03.27.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - The House of Cards \| 3 Sizzlers, Mattel’s new motorized Hot Wheels, were supposed to be the top toy this Christmas. But sales have fizzled, leaving Mattel $30 million below target. For the last ten years, Mattel’s done exceptionally well by its investors, but now the ...
03.25.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Boy Toy \| 2 It’s the 1960s and Hasbro is struggling. The pencil manufacturer turned toymaker hasn’t had a major success since Mr. Potato Head hit the shelves in 1952, and it’s starting to lose money. If the company doesn’t act fast, it’ll be ...
03.20.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Dream Doll \| 1 It’s the late 1940s and two small toymakers are taking their first uneasy steps. The names of these young hopefuls are Hasbro and Mattel. One’s an offshoot of a pencil manufacturer. The other a husband-and-wife garage start-up. But toy-mayking, they ...
02.25.2019 USFL vs NFL - Risky Business \| 7 Mike Pesca, Slate, joins to talk about the biggest risks facing the NFL, whether the Patriots are good or bad for the league, and what our culture would look like if football never took off as a professional sport in ...
02.20.2019 USFL vs NFL - Football Day in Court \| 6 The battle between the NFL and the USFL finally comes to a head. Donald Trump has bullied his way to the top of the USFL and pressured his league into suing the NFL for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. But ...
02.18.2019 USFL vs NFL - The Empire Strikes Back \| 5 For nearly two full years, the mighty NFL sat idly by as the upstart USFL tried to chip away at its status, talent, and reputation as the most powerful sports league on the planet. Now, the NFL is ready to ...
02.13.2019 USFL vs NFL - Making Spring Football Great Again \| 4 Description: It’s 1984, and at USFL franchise offices across the country, multi-million dollar contracts are flowing like Gatorade. As the United States Football League prepares for kickoff on its second season, owners race to recruit the best college players, and ...
02.11.2019 USFL vs NFL - A Challenge to the King \| 3 By most measures, the USFL’s debut season is a success. The games post solid numbers--in both ticket sales and television ratings--offering undeniable proof that there’s an audience for professional spring football. Still, the league is hemorrhaging money. At a post-season ...
02.06.2019 USFL vs NFL - A General Triumph \| 2 Description: The NFL has faced rival leagues in the past, and routinely squashed them without breaking so much as a sweat. The NFL’s powerful commissioner, Pete Rozelle, assumes the USFL will be no different. He sees the rival league as ...
02.04.2019 USFL vs NFL - Birth of a Spring Football League \| 1 For years, David Dixon has been trying to convince the National Football League to launch an expansion team in New Orleans, but he always comes up empty-handed. Finally, after one too many letdowns, Dixon realizes his only hope for a ...
01.30.2019 Best of Business Wars Daily \| 1 Oreo vs. Hydrox. Twitter vs. TikTok. Business rivals are doing battle every day. On Business Wars Daily, we give you a brief daily update, Monday through Friday, on the latest wars between the world’s biggest companies happening right now. On ...
01.28.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Breakfast Wars \| 7 Egg McMuffins, Croissan’wiches and coffee. Today’s fast food fight is all about breakfast time. Wall Street Journal reporter Julie Jargon joins to talk about where Burger King and McDonald’s are headed, the rise of eating at home, and how fast-casual ...
01.23.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Super Fan Supernova \| 6 It’s a new century and times are tough for the burger giants. Burger King’s in a rut and McDonald’s is about to report its first loss in nearly 40 years. Both brands need to reinvent themselves fast. But can they ...
01.21.2019 McDonald's vs Burger King - Battle of the Burgers \| 5 Burger King is under pressure. McDonald’s is wowing the nation with a new way to eat chicken and Wendy’s is quickly closing in on the number two fast food spot. Backed into a corner, Burger King prepares to bite back ...
01.16.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Have It Your Way \| 4 It’s the 1970s, and the burger barons are turning to TV advertising to propel profits skyward. McDonald’s is betting that a little song and dance can give it the competitive edge, but Burger King is stepping up their ads as ...
01.14.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Feeding Frenzy \| 3 By the mid-1960s, Americans have developed a taste for fast, delicious, affordable food — and they’re demanding more. U.S. fast food franchises — McDonald’s, Burger King and Burger Chef — know that if they want to feed America and win ...
01.09.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Cooking with Gas \| 2 It’s the late 1950s and fry cooks are flipping as fast as they can. But McDonald’s and Insta-Burger King’s desire for national success far outstrips their ability to deliver. It’s not enough to just make a better burger: bad contracts, ...
01.07.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Fastest Burger in the West \| 1 It’s 1948, and somewhere around the edge of the Mojave Desert, a drive-in restaurant is making waves. It's called McDonald’s and it’s like no burger joint anyone’s seen before—a carhop-free eatery with lightning fast service, and shockingly low prices. But ...
12.20.2018 Zankou Chicken Murders - The Death of an American Dream \| 2 Mardiros Iskenderian was known for two things: the unbelievable generosity he showed to the Armenian community, and the deep love he expressed for his family—particularly for his mother, whom he treated like a queen. So why did Mardiros try to ...
12.18.2018 Zankou Chicken Murders - Out of Beirut \| 1 It’s January 14th, 2003, and 56-year-old Mardiros Iskenderian, the founder of the family-owned chain of rotisserie restaurants Zankou Chicken, is leaving the house for the first time in months. Twenty years ago, the Iskenderians transplanted their business from war-torn Beirut ...
12.18.2018 Waze vs Apple Maps \| 3 The debut of the Apple iPhone in 2007 means unprecedented changes for human communication. But even its inventor Steve Jobs at first fails to realize that the most powerful part of his invention isn’t the music player or the web ...
12.13.2018 Browser Wars - Even When They Lose They Win \| 6 Microsoft has officially won the battle against Netscape, but for Bill Gates, the browser war is far from over. The federal government has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, and called Gates to Washington, D.C. for questioning. Hotshot prosecutor David ...
12.11.2018 Browser Wars - Microsoft on the Hot Seat \| 5 To compete with Netscape, Bill Gates is forced to do the one thing he hates most: give tech away for free. He bundles Internet Explorer with Windows, effectively making his browser ubiquitous--and Netscape’s redundant. Suddenly, Netscape, the company that launched ...
12.06.2018 Browser Wars - An Offer They Can’t Refuse \| 4 It’s summer 1995, and Bill Gates is worried about the sudden rise of the Internet. In the world of computers, Gates is used to being in the driver’s seat. Now it seems he’s not even in the car. Marc ...

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06.18.2019 Introducing 1865 1865 starts with the moment Lincoln got shot and follows the journey of the Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton. Stanton continues to push through Lincoln’s progressive agenda while dealing with the nuances around the assassination. But the moral gravity of ...
06.17.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Fighting the Crocodile \| 6 It’s a new century and the beer industry is changing fast. Beyond America, new brewery empires are forming and they want to buy their way into the lucrative U.S. market. And Miller is the first to fall, bought out by ...
06.12.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Surprise Attack Dog \| 5 It’s the 1980s and Miller’s glory days are over. Drinkers are deserting High Life and Anheuser-Busch is about to launch a $50 million attack on Miller Lite. With the pressure mounting, Miller hunts for a way to revive its momentum. ...
06.10.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Miller Killers \| 4 It’s the late 1970s and Miller is hurtling towards the top of the brewing industry on the back of High Life and Lite. Anheuser-Busch’s new leader August Busch III knows he must act fast to stop the threat. But before ...
06.05.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - It’s Miller Time! \| 3 Come the early 1970s, Miller has a new owner: tobacco giant Philip Morris. Armed with the Marlboro maker’s millions and marketing skills, Miller is about to shake up the beer business with a campaign targeting blue-collar workers thirsty for a ...
06.03.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Swinging for the Majors \| 2 By 1933 Prohibition is over, and that means the race is on to dominate a beer market that’s been reset. Under the leadership of Anheuser-Busch heir Gussie Busch, the company is out to reclaim the beer throne. But there’s a ...
05.30.2019 Introducing Inside Star Wars Heroes, villains, action... all set in a galaxy far, far away. Join Inside Star Wars and go behind the camera and find out how one of the most iconic series in film history came to be. Listen now at: http://wondery.fm/ISWED
05.29.2019 Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - The Beer Barons \| 1 It’s 1893 and Chicago is about to host The World’s Columbian Exposition. It’s going to be the biggest show the world’s ever seen, and that means it’s time for Adolphus Busch to shine. He’s the owner of Budweiser brewery Anheuser-Busch ...
05.27.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - What’s Next for Digital Streaming \| 9 On today's special interview episode, renowned media futurist Rich Greenfield returns to fill us in on the latest developments in the streaming wars and how these changes might impact viewers in the coming years. Greenfield is a media and tech ...
05.22.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Streamers Everywhere \| 8 It’s spring 2019, and the Mouse House is determined to challenge Netflix for streaming supremacy. Disney CEO Bob Iger draws gasps at an industry event when he announces the new Disney Plus streaming service will cost just seven bucks a ...
05.20.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Break the Wheel \| 7 Netflix goes from being a streaming company to a movement in which consumers all over the world decide what to watch, and when and how they watch. The future that Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph envisioned two decades earlier has ...
05.15.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Binge \| 6 Hollywood execs thought Netflix was crazy to give up advertising and spin off opportunities by letting viewers flop on a couch and watch a whole season of a show all at once. But Netflix knew it was onto something. All ...
05.14.2019 Justin Long Gets Personal on "Life is Short" \| 1 Life is Short with Justin Long finds the actor sitting down with some of the funniest and most intriguing people of today, like Dax Shepard, Olivia Wilde and Neil Patrick Harris. No topics are out of bounds, and no questions ...
05.13.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - HBO Gets in the Game \| 5 We take a step back to explore how a little company called Home Box Office went from serving B-movies to 325 homes in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania to become the juggernaut that we know as HBO. In the process, HBO, became ...
05.08.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - The Digital Divide \| 4 You know the expression “content is king”? Well it turns out, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it’s a hard-working algorithm that burrows into customer habits and viewing patterns. With that, Netflix had a clear upper hand on Blockbuster. That, and the ...
05.06.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Dirty Tricks \| 3 Thinking like your enemy is the best way to beat them, and during the war, Blockbuster tried every trick in the book to get inside Netflix. Sometimes they succeeded — sending “housewives” into warehouses as spies — and sometimes things ...
05.01.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Origins \| 2 After Hastings pleaded with Antioco to buy Blockbuster online, Antioco agreed to present Hasting’s proposal to the board. What he didn’t tell him was that he was pushing the board to reject the offer so Netflix would wither and die. ...
04.29.2019 Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Sudden Death \| 1 The way we watch is changing so rapidly that we’ve decided to revisit our very first and most popular Business War: Netflix versus Blockbuster. We’re re-airing an expanded eight-part series following Netflix’s battles against HBO and today’s new entrants into ...
04.24.2019 Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - The Future of Cars \| 4 Electric. Diesel. Driverless. Automobile Magazine’s New York Bureau Chief, Jamie Kitman, joins to talk about the latest developments in the car industry and what’s next for Ferrari and Lamborghini. Support us by supporting our sponsors! Zip Recruiter - To try ...
04.22.2019 Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - Supercar Speed Freaks \| 3 It is 1997. For decades, Lamborghini has struggled to survive as a company, and to compete with its nemesis Ferrari. All that is about to change. Volkswagen buys Lambo and injects it with cash and bulletproof German engineering. For the ...
04.17.2019 Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - Lamborghini Spawns an Icon \| 2 It’s 1970. At his factory in Italy, Ferruccio Lamborghini is desperate to build a car that can outdo his rival, Enzo Ferrari, whose Ferrari factory is just 20 miles away. With the help of genius designers and engineers, Lamborghini comes ...
04.15.2019 Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - The Gauntlet \| 1 It’s the early 1960s. In Maranello, Italy, Enzo Ferrari has made a name for himself building the most exotic road cars in the world. But when a dissatisfied customer named Ferruccio Lamborghini shows up to complain about his Ferrari’s busted ...
04.10.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Today's Toys \| 7 Bratz. Monster High. Funko. These are the toys that rule the roost in 2019. Veteran toy industry analyst Sean McGowan joins to discuss the big business of toys today, how Hasbro and Mattel can compete, and what’s going on with ...
04.08.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Screen Dreams \| 6 With the world plugging into the Internet, toys are under pressure. Kids are swapping plastic play for screen-based entertainment and both Mattel and Hasbro need to adapt. The question is: how? Mattel’s also finding out the hard way that Barbie’s ...
04.03.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - The Shotgun Wedding \| 5 A few months ago, Mattel’s revenues were just fifty million dollars behind Hasbro’s. But now that Hasbro’s swallowed Tonka—the classic maker of Nerf, Play-Doh, and Monopoly—Mattel is half a billion dollars behind, and CEO John Amerman isn’t happy about it. ...
04.01.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Resurrection Joe \| 4 It’s the early 1980s and things are not looking good for Hasbro. The company hasn’t had a hit since Hungry Hungry Hippos; its founding CEO Merrill Hassenfeld has just died; now Star Wars dolls have just about gobbled up the ...
03.27.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - The House of Cards \| 3 Sizzlers, Mattel’s new motorized Hot Wheels, were supposed to be the top toy this Christmas. But sales have fizzled, leaving Mattel $30 million below target. For the last ten years, Mattel’s done exceptionally well by its investors, but now the ...
03.25.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Boy Toy \| 2 It’s the 1960s and Hasbro is struggling. The pencil manufacturer turned toymaker hasn’t had a major success since Mr. Potato Head hit the shelves in 1952, and it’s starting to lose money. If the company doesn’t act fast, it’ll be ...
03.20.2019 Hasbro vs Mattel - Dream Doll \| 1 It’s the late 1940s and two small toymakers are taking their first uneasy steps. The names of these young hopefuls are Hasbro and Mattel. One’s an offshoot of a pencil manufacturer. The other a husband-and-wife garage start-up. But toy-mayking, they ...
02.25.2019 USFL vs NFL - Risky Business \| 7 Mike Pesca, Slate, joins to talk about the biggest risks facing the NFL, whether the Patriots are good or bad for the league, and what our culture would look like if football never took off as a professional sport in ...
02.20.2019 USFL vs NFL - Football Day in Court \| 6 The battle between the NFL and the USFL finally comes to a head. Donald Trump has bullied his way to the top of the USFL and pressured his league into suing the NFL for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. But ...
02.18.2019 USFL vs NFL - The Empire Strikes Back \| 5 For nearly two full years, the mighty NFL sat idly by as the upstart USFL tried to chip away at its status, talent, and reputation as the most powerful sports league on the planet. Now, the NFL is ready to ...
02.13.2019 USFL vs NFL - Making Spring Football Great Again \| 4 Description: It’s 1984, and at USFL franchise offices across the country, multi-million dollar contracts are flowing like Gatorade. As the United States Football League prepares for kickoff on its second season, owners race to recruit the best college players, and ...
02.11.2019 USFL vs NFL - A Challenge to the King \| 3 By most measures, the USFL’s debut season is a success. The games post solid numbers--in both ticket sales and television ratings--offering undeniable proof that there’s an audience for professional spring football. Still, the league is hemorrhaging money. At a post-season ...
02.06.2019 USFL vs NFL - A General Triumph \| 2 Description: The NFL has faced rival leagues in the past, and routinely squashed them without breaking so much as a sweat. The NFL’s powerful commissioner, Pete Rozelle, assumes the USFL will be no different. He sees the rival league as ...
02.04.2019 USFL vs NFL - Birth of a Spring Football League \| 1 For years, David Dixon has been trying to convince the National Football League to launch an expansion team in New Orleans, but he always comes up empty-handed. Finally, after one too many letdowns, Dixon realizes his only hope for a ...
01.30.2019 Best of Business Wars Daily \| 1 Oreo vs. Hydrox. Twitter vs. TikTok. Business rivals are doing battle every day. On Business Wars Daily, we give you a brief daily update, Monday through Friday, on the latest wars between the world’s biggest companies happening right now. On ...
01.28.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Breakfast Wars \| 7 Egg McMuffins, Croissan’wiches and coffee. Today’s fast food fight is all about breakfast time. Wall Street Journal reporter Julie Jargon joins to talk about where Burger King and McDonald’s are headed, the rise of eating at home, and how fast-casual ...
01.23.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Super Fan Supernova \| 6 It’s a new century and times are tough for the burger giants. Burger King’s in a rut and McDonald’s is about to report its first loss in nearly 40 years. Both brands need to reinvent themselves fast. But can they ...
01.21.2019 McDonald's vs Burger King - Battle of the Burgers \| 5 Burger King is under pressure. McDonald’s is wowing the nation with a new way to eat chicken and Wendy’s is quickly closing in on the number two fast food spot. Backed into a corner, Burger King prepares to bite back ...
01.16.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Have It Your Way \| 4 It’s the 1970s, and the burger barons are turning to TV advertising to propel profits skyward. McDonald’s is betting that a little song and dance can give it the competitive edge, but Burger King is stepping up their ads as ...
01.14.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Feeding Frenzy \| 3 By the mid-1960s, Americans have developed a taste for fast, delicious, affordable food — and they’re demanding more. U.S. fast food franchises — McDonald’s, Burger King and Burger Chef — know that if they want to feed America and win ...
01.09.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Cooking with Gas \| 2 It’s the late 1950s and fry cooks are flipping as fast as they can. But McDonald’s and Insta-Burger King’s desire for national success far outstrips their ability to deliver. It’s not enough to just make a better burger: bad contracts, ...
01.07.2019 McDonald’s vs Burger King - Fastest Burger in the West \| 1 It’s 1948, and somewhere around the edge of the Mojave Desert, a drive-in restaurant is making waves. It's called McDonald’s and it’s like no burger joint anyone’s seen before—a carhop-free eatery with lightning fast service, and shockingly low prices. But ...
12.20.2018 Zankou Chicken Murders - The Death of an American Dream \| 2 Mardiros Iskenderian was known for two things: the unbelievable generosity he showed to the Armenian community, and the deep love he expressed for his family—particularly for his mother, whom he treated like a queen. So why did Mardiros try to ...
12.18.2018 Zankou Chicken Murders - Out of Beirut \| 1 It’s January 14th, 2003, and 56-year-old Mardiros Iskenderian, the founder of the family-owned chain of rotisserie restaurants Zankou Chicken, is leaving the house for the first time in months. Twenty years ago, the Iskenderians transplanted their business from war-torn Beirut ...
12.18.2018 Waze vs Apple Maps \| 3 The debut of the Apple iPhone in 2007 means unprecedented changes for human communication. But even its inventor Steve Jobs at first fails to realize that the most powerful part of his invention isn’t the music player or the web ...
12.13.2018 Browser Wars - Even When They Lose They Win \| 6 Microsoft has officially won the battle against Netscape, but for Bill Gates, the browser war is far from over. The federal government has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, and called Gates to Washington, D.C. for questioning. Hotshot prosecutor David ...
12.11.2018 Browser Wars - Microsoft on the Hot Seat \| 5 To compete with Netscape, Bill Gates is forced to do the one thing he hates most: give tech away for free. He bundles Internet Explorer with Windows, effectively making his browser ubiquitous--and Netscape’s redundant. Suddenly, Netscape, the company that launched ...
12.06.2018 Browser Wars - An Offer They Can’t Refuse \| 4 It’s summer 1995, and Bill Gates is worried about the sudden rise of the Internet. In the world of computers, Gates is used to being in the driver’s seat. Now it seems he’s not even in the car. Marc ...

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Introducing 1865

Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Fighting the Crocodile | 6

Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Surprise Attack Dog | 5

Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Miller Killers | 4

Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - It’s Miller Time! | 3

Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - Swinging for the Majors | 2

Introducing Inside Star Wars

Anheuser-Busch vs Miller - The Beer Barons | 1

Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - What’s Next for Digital Streaming | 9

Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Streamers Everywhere | 8

Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Break the Wheel | 7

Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Binge | 6

Justin Long Gets Personal on "Life is Short" | 1

Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - HBO Gets in the Game | 5

Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - The Digital Divide | 4

Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Dirty Tricks | 3

Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Origins | 2

Netflix vs Blockbuster Revisited - Sudden Death | 1

Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - The Future of Cars | 4

Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - Supercar Speed Freaks | 3

Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - Lamborghini Spawns an Icon | 2

Ferrari vs. Lamborghini - The Gauntlet | 1

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