#Media Industry

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• 🇺🇸 CNN Correspondent Stephanie Elam to Exit — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Stephanie Elam will leave CNN, where she has worked as a correspondent for more than twenty years over two different stints. Elam has in recent years worked as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. In re...

  Related: #Career Transition, #Broadcast Journalism
• 🇺🇸 “Streamflation” Might Be Nearing a Crisis Point — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  As the monthly cost of streaming subscriptions keeps creeping up (alongside gas, groceries, and seemingly everything else) consumers will be forced to make tough choices.

  Related: #Consumer Economics, #Inflation
• 🇺🇸 Cumulus Media A earnings missed by $6.72, revenue topped estimates — 10/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Earnings Report, #Corporate Finance
• 🇺🇸 Angel Studios projects first quarter 2026 revenue of up to $109 million — 10/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Entertainment Finance, #Business Growth
• 🇺🇸 ‘Live With Kelly and Mark’ Post-Oscars Episode Viewership Grows 13% Over Last Year (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  It’s One Rating Win After Another for Disney’s syndicated talk strip “Live With Kelly and Mark,” which saw this year’s “After the Oscars” episode jump by double digits vs. last year with total viewers...

  Related: #Television Ratings, #Awards Season
• 🇺🇸 Thai Randolph Launches NILE & Co., Creator-Driven Media Company That Has Acquired BuzzFeed’s As/Is and Goodful Brands — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Entertainment industry veteran Thai Randolph has taken the wraps off her new venture: NILE & Co., described as a content and commerce platform that works with “creators who move culture.” Randolph is ...

  Related: #Business Venture, #Digital Content
• 🇺🇸 Disney to lay off up to 1,000 workers — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Entertainment giant Disney is cutting up to 1,000 marketing-related jobs under new CEO Josh D'Amaro, according to reports.

  Related: #Corporate Restructuring, #Labor Market
• 🇺🇸 Former Paramount Comms Exec Liza Burnett Fefferman Joins Anonymous Content as Chief Communications & Marketing Officer — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Anonymous Content has brought on Liza Burnett Fefferman to serve in the newly created role of chief communications and marketing officer. Fefferman was most recently executive vice president of commun...

  Related: #Executive Hiring, #Corporate Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Paramount Details Separation Agreement With Jeff Shell — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Paramount Skydance confirmed that its former president Jeff Shell exited the company on April 8 and outlined in a SEC filing how much he will be leaving with. He will be paid an amount in cash equal t...

  Related: #Corporate Governance, #Executive Compensation
• 🇺🇸 Disney is planning to lay off 1,000 workers — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Disney is planning to lay off 1,000 workers

  Related: #Corporate Restructuring, #Labor Market
• 🇺🇸 Andy Serkis, BBC Studios, Crunchyroll Chiefs Among Speakers at APOS 2026 Summit — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Actor, director and producer Andy Serkis will speak at the APOS Summit 2026, scheduled for June 16-18 at the Mulia Resort in Bali. The annual gathering, organized by Media Partners Asia, has confirmed...

  Related: #Entertainment, #Technology, #Business Summit
• 🇺🇸 OpenAP Names Warner Sales President Ryan Gould Chairman — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Ryan Gould, who helps oversee U.S. ad sales for Warner Bros. Discovery, has been appointed chairman of Open AP, the consoritum of media and tech companies working to make new digital ad-buying pracitc...

  Related: #Advertising Technology, #Corporate Leadership
• 🇺🇸 Disney Expected to Lay Off as Many as 1,000 Employees — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Disney is expected to lay off as many as 1,000 employees through role eliminations in the coming months, Variety has learned. Many of the cuts are expected to come from the media giant’s marketing dep...

  Related: #Corporate Restructuring, #Labor Market
• 🇺🇸 Disney plans to cut 1,000 jobs, WSJ reports — 09/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Corporate Restructuring, #Economy
• 🇺🇸 Gambler Revels in Paramount Chief’s Exit: “Don’t You Mess Around With Me” — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Jeff Shell’s fight with R.J. Cipriani, a notorious provocateur, may have been the proximate cause for his undoing but ultimately it was David Ellison's call. Cipriani is still going on the offensive.

  Related: #Corporate Governance, #Mergers & Acquisitions
• 🇺🇸 AMC Networks Changes Corporate Name To AMC Global Media — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  AMC Networks is changing its name to AMC Global Media, a rebranding in keeping with changes in the media landscape and within the company. The company announced the shift Wednesday in an SEC filing. L...

  Related: #Corporate Strategy, #Digital Transformation
• 🇺🇸 AMC Networks Rebranding as AMC Global Media — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The media company behind 'The Walking Dead' and Anne Rice universes is rebranding itself ahead of what it hopes will be its next genre-defining hit, 'The Audacity.'

  Related: #Corporate Strategy, #Entertainment
• 🇺🇸 Jeff Shell Steps Down as President of Paramount — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Mr. Shell, the former chief executive of NBCUniversal, is leaving after becoming entangled in a legal battle with a professional gambler, R.J. Cipriani.

  Related: #Corporate Governance, #Executive Misconduct
• 🇺🇸 Jeff Shell steps down from Paramount president role amid lawsuit — 08/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Leadership Transition, #Corporate Governance
• 🇺🇸 Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Unionized staff at ProPublica, one of the country's leading nonprofit newsrooms, are walking off the job for 24 hours beginning Wednesday and asking the public to honor a digital picket line. The roug...

  Related: #Labor Strike, #Artificial Intelligence, #Job Security
• 🇺🇸 Taiwan’s TAICCA Pushes Global Co-Pro Strategy With Four Series at Series Mania — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Taiwan is doubling down on its international co-production strategy at Series Mania, with state agency TAICCA unveiling four cross-border series at the Asia Co-Pro Pitch as CEO Erica Wang leads the de...

  Related: #International Collaboration
• 🇬🇧 Australia's ABC staff to go on strike for first time in 20 years — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The 24-hour long strike is expected to disrupt live television and radio broadcasts.

  Related: #Labor Dispute
• 🇺🇸 Starz Lays 7% Of Staff 10 Months After Separation From Lionsgate — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: In Starz’s Q4 earnings report in February, the company called 2026 a “positive financial inflection point” as the company projected a transition to profitability following its separation fr...

  Related: #Corporate Restructuring
• 🇺🇸 How A French Documentary Company “Invented Its Own Rules” To Break Into The World Of British TV Drama — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Kissous’ journey from French documentaries to British TV thrillers starring David Suchet and Joanna Scanlan isn’t a traditional one, but he insists his work has always had a throughl...

  Related: #Innovation
• 🇺🇸 Everything We Know About ‘The Morning Show’ Season 5 So Far — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Season 5 of Apple TV’s The Morning Show has begun adding new faces to its already stacked cast. Season 4 left off with a major character and actress making their departures about midway through. Alrea...

  Related: #Television
• 🇺🇸 Endemol Shine Australia Eyes U.S. Growth With Dan Cazzola Hire — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Endemol Shine Australia has been responsible for shows such as CBS’ The Summit, ABC’s Family Food Fight and Paramount+’s NCIS: Sydney. Now the Australian division of the Banijay-owned produ...

  Related: #Business Expansion
• 🇺🇸 LISTEN: Tales from Variety’s True Crime Summit at SXSW: Nancy Grace on Kouri Richins, Eva Pilgrim and Producers of ‘Wisecrack,’ ‘Quiet on Set’ and More — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, hear from Nancy Grace on Kouri Richins, “Inside Edition” host Eva Pilgrim, producers of “Quiet on Set,” “The Fall of Diddy,” “Lost Women of Alaska,” “Wis...

  Related: #True Crime, #Entertainment
• 🇺🇸 CBS News 24/7’s WGAE Members Hold 24-Hour Walkout After No Agreement Reached On New Contract — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Writers Guild of America East members at the streaming service CBS News 24/7 are holding a 24-hour walkout on Tuesday after no agreement was reached following the expiration of their contract last wee...

  Related: #Labor Strike
• 🇺🇸 Warner Bros chief David Zaslav in line for $700mn payday — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  One of Hollywood’s highest earners stands to reap huge rewards from Paramount’s $111bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

  Related: #Executive Compensation
• 🇺🇸 Profits Slashed At STV After “Challenging Year” — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  It has been a tough year for Criminal Record and Blue Lights maker STV, which saw profits slashed and made layoffs across the board. STV, which runs linear channels, a streamer and a production arm, S...

  Related: #Corporate Earnings