Disney has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission accusing it of illegally collecting personal data from children on YouTube. The agency challenged the entertainment giants mislabeling of certain videos made for youngsters, which allowed it to serve targeted ads. The deal opens the door for similar payouts from big entertainment companies that...

Disney has been sued for pay discrimination by one of its former top lawyers, expanding a legal battle over claims from female employees who say theyre paid less than their male counterparts for similar work. The lawsuit points to systemic pay inequality at Disney, which last year settled a class action from roughly 9,000 workers in California across the companys...

French media giant Canal+ has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a 34 percent minority stake in UGC, one of Frances largest cinema chains, with an option to take full control of the company in 2028. The deal would combine Canal+s production and distribution arm, StudioCanal, with UGCs exhibition network of 55 theaters across France and Belgium, including the UGC Cin...

It was supposed to be a new chapter for Spin magazine and it sounded, at least in terms of the diminished expectations of the current media landscape, like a theoretically decent one, too. Next Management Partners, the Santa Monica-based venture capital firm that owns the Bob Guccione Jr.-edited magazine brand, had a deal in place to sell the publisher to...

Are the big broadcast networks planning a local TV takeover? Some veteran media executives think so, and filings with the Federal Communications Commission suggest that the idea is very much top of mind in the C-suites if the FCC lets them. To be certain, the local TV station business is already in dealmaking mode, with FCC chairman Brendan Carr making...

Anna Wintour has found her new U.S. editorial director for Vogue. Wintour has tapped protege and Vogue digital editor Chloe Malle as head of editorial content for the American edition of Vogue, taking the reins from Wintour, who ceded her role leading the publication in June. Malle reports to Wintour, and starts in the new role immediately. Wintour, who has...

Howard Stern will reveal all just not yet. The radio shock jock had been slated to return to his SiriusXM show Tuesday morning, after weeks of promos promised a big reveal following swirling speculation that his show would be canceled. However The Howard Stern Shows social accounts posted early Tuesday that Howard Stern will now speak Monday, September 8, urging...

Media mogul John Malone is opening up about advising David Zaslav, the chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, on his new contract with the media giant. In an interview with the New York Times about his memoir Born to be Wired, Malone, Zaslavs longtime mentor, told the publication that he recently advised the WBD boss on a new contract that...

Fox and Google have a deal. Foxs TV channels, including the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, and FS1, will remain available on YouTube TV, as the tech giant and the media company have come to terms on a new carriage deal, averting a blackout. Financial terms of the new agreement were not disclosed, but it covers all of Foxs suite...

Amid declining cable viewership industry-wide, Canadian media giant Rogers has unveiled a new streaming plan that brings together Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV+ for its subscribers. The Rogers Xfinity StreamSaver plan first rolled out in western Canada, before becoming available later this year in the rest of the country is priced at CAN$22 (US$16) per-month. Rogers estimates the savings from...

The CBS Evening News is turning to a veteran of the program to lead it as its new executive producer. Kim Harvey has been elevated to EP of the venerable evening newscast, which is marking 77 years on the air this year. Harvey succeeds Guy Campanile, who left the newscast earlier this month to return to 60 Minutes. Harvey has...

Will artificial intelligence upend or help the media and entertainment industry? That is one of the hot topics of debate of our time. In particular, will cheap AI-generated content outperform human creativity? Management consulting firm Bain Co., in a newresearch report,is optimistic that machines arent ready to replace humans, at least not yet. Media and the ways companies make money...

Its a tale as old as Hollywood: A writer drafts a screenplay and submits it to various competitions. They get some buzz, maybe even placing in a few, though their script ultimately doesnt land anywhere. Then, they see a movie that feels similar to what they wrote. And after looking at the films IMDB page, they realize that theyre a...