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

Podcast: Channels with Peter Kafka · Vox Media Podcast Network

Opublikowano: 2026-05-20

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: take a business built around cable TV — an industry in obvious decline — and use the cash it still generates to build new businesses. I talked to Lazarus on the day Versant reported its first real earnings as a standalone company — and the day its stock bounced after getting hammered out of the gate. He says the early selloff was pred...