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🇺🇸 Brooks and Capehart on the Senate primaries in Texas
[USA]
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the Republican and Democratic Senate primaries in Texas, the reaction to Pres...
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🇺🇸 Netflix isn’t buying Warner Bros: All of the latest updates
[USA]
Just months after Netflix struck a deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Games, the streaming giant has backed out of the arrangement, declining to raise its offer beyond P...
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🇺🇸 California Attorney General Warns Paramount That Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition is ‘Not a Done Deal’
[USA]
Rob Bonta, California’s Attorney General, is promising to conduct a “vigorous” review of Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery as he warned the companies not to get ahead of the r...
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🇺🇸 Media Layoffs Continue as Equalpride Axes Staffers at LGBTQ Standouts Out, Advocate and Pride.com
[USA]
Commenting on the latest round of cuts, a source tells THR, “These brands mean a lot to people, and we need to be telling our stories now more than ever.”
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🇺🇸 Netflix drops bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, paving way for Paramount Skydance
[USA]
Streaming giant declines to match Paramount Skydance's $31 per share offer for Warner Bros. Discovery
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🇺🇸 Netflix declines to raise offer for Warner Bros. Discovery [USA]
Netflix said it would not submit a higher offer for Warner Bros. Discovery after the company's board described Paramount Skydance's latest offer as "superior."
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🇺🇸 Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
[USA]
The move was a stunning development in the long-running corporate battle for the storied media giant.
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🇺🇸 In reversal, Warner Bros. jilts Netflix for Paramount
[USA]
Warner Bros. says Paramount's sweetened bid to buy the whole company is "superior" to an $83 billion deal it struck with Netflix for just its streaming services, studios, and intellectual propert...
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🇺🇸 Warner Bros. Discovery Declares New Paramount Bid a ‘Superior Proposal’; Netflix Has Four Business Days to Match
[USA]
The board of Warner Bros. Discovery said Thursday it has determined that the latest offer from Paramount Skydance is a “superior proposal” to its existing pact with Netflix. The move sets off a four-d...
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🇺🇸 Warner Bros. Discovery says Paramount's offer is 'superior' to Netflix deal
[USA]
Warner Bros. Discovery's board said Thursday that Paramount Skydance's latest offer to acquire the company, including its cable networks, is "superior" to its current deal with Netflix.
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🇺🇸 NBC Expects Savannah Guthrie’s ‘Today’ Return, But Timeline Remains Uncertain
[USA]
The new normal at NBC’s “Today” is anything but. Anchors at the long-running A.M. franchise have grappled with many challenges over the years, ranging from personal health issues to talent transitions...
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🇺🇸 Scripps CEO Adam Symson Renews Contract Through 2029 Amid Company’s Major Cost-Cutting Plan, Reacquisition of 23 ION Affiliate TV Stations
[USA]
E.W. Scripps Co. has renewed its contract with CEO Adam Symson through 2029. The longer-pact announcement came during the company’s quarterly earnings call Thursday, when Symson briefed analysts on Sc...
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🇺🇸 Warner Bros. Discovery Leaders Talk ‘Stunning’ Film Studio Revival, a ‘Reset Year’ for Gaming and Discovery Global Cable Spinoff Plans
[USA]
Warner Bros. Discovery leaders David Zaslav and JB Perrette talked up the potential of upcoming slates for Warner Bros. and HBO Max and the future of Discovery Global linear channels Thursday morning ...
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🇺🇸 HBO Max Continues Rollout With 12 Asia Pacific Launches
[USA]
HBO Max is continuing its global rollout by debuting in 12 Asia Pacific markets. Warner Bros. Discovery will debut the global streaming service HBO Max on March 26 in Bhutan, Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives,...
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🇺🇸 NBC Renewal Status Report: ‘Chicago’ And ‘Law & Order’ Franchises, ‘The Hunting Party’, ‘Brilliant Minds’ & ‘Stumble’
[USA]
NBC is coming off the purge of 2025 when six scripted series — dramas Found, The Irrational, Grosse Pointe Garden Society and Suits L.A. and comedies Night Court and Lopez vs. Lopez — were canceled ah...
Related: #Television Programming, #NBC Strategy, #Series Renewals -
🇺🇸 Paramount Sweetens Offer For Warner Bros. Discovery
[USA]
With Paramount and WBD’s seven-day negotiating window expiring tonight, the David Ellison company has, as expected, sweetened its bid from $30 a share, Deadline has confirmed, as it attempts to pry Wa...
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🇬🇧 Battle for Warner Bros heats up as Paramount's best and final offer submitted
[United Kingdom]
Paramount Skydance has offered even more money for Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), adding pressure on the media giant to accept a bid it has so far rejected.
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🇺🇸 Paramount Is Expected to Raise Price of Warner Bros. Discovery Bid. Will Netflix Walk Away?
[USA]
David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has a Monday deadline to submit its best and final offer for Warner Bros. Discovery — and Paramount is expected to come back with an offer above its previous $30/sha...
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🇺🇸 Ted Sarandos Pushes Back On Trump’s Call For Netflix To Fire Board Member Susan Rice: “He Likes To Do A Lot Of Things On Social Media”
[USA]
Ted Sarandos attempted to playdown Donald Trump’s fiery request over the weekend for Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice, when questioned on the social media outburst in an interview on the BBC’s ...
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🇺🇸 Trump Says Netflix Should Fire Board Member Susan Rice “Immediately, or Pay the Consequences”
[USA]
His comments come after Rice said in a recent interview that those who have "take[n] a knee to Trump, I think they are now starting to realize, ‘Wait a minute, this is not popular. Trump is not popula...
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🇺🇸 Warren Buffett's company invests in The New York Times 6 years after he sold all his newspapers
[USA]
Six years after Warren Buffett sold off all of Berkshire Hathaway's newspapers and predicted unending declines for the industry, Berkshire disclosed a new $350 million investment in The New York Times...
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🇺🇸 Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Nvidia, New York Times, Palantir & more
[USA]
These are the stocks posting the largest moves in premarket trading.
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🇺🇸 Warner Bros rejects Paramount’s revised offer, but gives studio a week to negotiate better deal
[USA]
Related: #Mergers and Acquisitions, #Corporate Finance
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🇬🇧 Washington Post editor acknowledges ‘genuine trauma’ over mass layoffs
[United Kingdom]
<p>Matt Murray defends paper’s strategy as ‘demoralized’ staffers ask tough questions in contentious town hall</p><p>Top Washington Post editor Matt Murray acknowledged “a widespread sense of loss, o...
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🇺🇸 Activist investor Ancora publicly opposes the WBD-Netflix deal
[USA]
An investment group is trying to sway Netflix shareholders to reject the WBD deal in favor of Paramount.
Related: #Corporate Mergers, #Streaming Competition, #Shareholder Activism -
🇺🇸 Paramount sweetens offer for Warner Bros. shareholders in hostile takeover fight
[USA]
Paramount is intensifying its efforts to take over Warner Bros
Related: #Corporate Consolidation, #Hostile Takeover -
🇺🇸 News Corp updates on $1 billion stock repurchase program
[USA]
Related: #Finance, #Corporate Strategy
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🇺🇸 Washington Post begins sweeping layoffs as it scales back news coverage
[USA]
The storied newspaper, owned by Jeff Bezos, will eliminate its sports department and reduce its coverage of foreign news.
Related: #Layoffs, #News Coverage, #Journalism -
🇺🇸 Disney names Josh D'Amaro as new chief executive
[USA]
The media giant chooses the head of its amusement park business to replace longtime boss Bob Iger.
Related: #Leadership Change, #Strategic Direction, #Competition -
🇺🇸 Washington Post Plans Cuts to Reshape Newsroom
[USA]
The changes are expected to include significant layoffs in areas like sports and international coverage.
Related: #Business, #Journalism