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Who Actually Picks Your In-Flight Movie?

Eight in ten passengers use the seatback screen, and the Big Four US carriers alone carry over 525,000 of them. Yet the teams choosing what plays on those screens are astonishingly small — Southwest's entire department is one person. This episode digs into the hidden machinery of in-flight entertainment: the content service providers like Spafax and Anuvu, the non-theatrical licensing deals where a single film on a single British Airways A380 can run $61,000 for one month, and the four-to-six-month windows that govern new releases. We also explore why there's no Nielsen for planes, how one…

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