When Comcast decided to spin off its cable channels into a new standalone venture in November (working title: SpinCo), it added some extra spin of its own: The new company built around channels like USA, MSNBC, CNBC, E! And Golf Channel would have leading sports properties like the Olympics, PGA Tour, Premier League soccer and the WWE. Those sports would...

The combination of the NFL, college football and Yellowstone helped Paramount record its biggest share of TV usage in nine months. Nielsens Media Distributor Gauge for November shows Paramount outlets responsible for 9.3 percent of TV viewing in the United States, the companys highest mark since February, when CBS aired the Super Bowl. It improved from 8.7 percent in October...

Warner Bros. Discovery has tapped former Netflix exec Eric Pallotta to spearhead social strategies and editorial campaigns as part of marketing for the Max streaming platform. As group senior vp of global brand, social and editorial for WBDs direct-to-consumer division, Pallotta will drive social strategies and editorial campaigns for the studios flagship streaming platform. I am so honored to join...

A federal judge has denied a bid to dismiss a lawsuit from media giants aiming to pool together their sports licensing rights to form a new streaming service, which was challenged by rival sports streamer Fubo. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett on Monday ruled against The Walt Disney Co., Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery. The case will proceed to...

Virgin Music Group, which is owned by Universal Music Group, has struck a deal to acquire Downtown Music Group Holdings for $775 million. The acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2025, pending regulatory approvals. Downtown Music Group Holdings was originally established as a music publishing company in 2007, and now has more than 20 offices across...

Chris Cuomo isnt going anywhere. The veteran TV news anchor has inked a new multiyear deal with NewsNation that will keep him at the upstart cable. Cuomo hosts his eponymous program at 8 p.m. on the Nexstar-owned cable news channel. Cuomo is at the center of an expansion push from NewsNation, which opened a new studio in New York last...

On Oct. 17, families at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles received news they must have been dreading for more than a year. A ninth grader had died at home that morning. It is important for us to share with you that the student took his own life, the school said. The death of a 15-year-old, whom a classmate later described...

After French media and telecom giant Vivendis split into four companies, the stocks of pay-TV and film companyCanal+, advertising powerhouse Havas and publishing firm Louis Hachette Group, which consists of the Vivendis 66.53 percent stake in Lagardre and full ownership of Prisma Media, started trading in Europe on Monday. Shares of Canal+, parents of Paddington producer StudioCanal, are now trading...

Almost every time Robert Zemeckis called cut on a scene in Here, Tom Hanks would run back to the playback monitors. The veteran actor had been on dozens of sets through his 40-year career but nothing like this. On Here, he plays a character whose arc is traced from high school to senior citizen with the help of a generative...

Composer Tyler Bates has been sued for allegedly pilfering a singer and former collaborators voice on productions he scored. Azam Ali, in a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges Bates created a digital replica of her voice, which was used on new projects, including Cartoon Networks animated series Primal, without consent or compensation to the singer....

Donald Trump might, perhaps inadvertently, shake up where Hollywood looks to shoot tentpoles and TV shows. With the entertainment industry in a spending slump after the 2023 writers and actors strikes, shooting facilities and production crews north of the U.S. border have had a slow year. But Trumps election victory sparked optimism when it boosted the American dollar against the...

A prime piece of TV real estate is hitting the open market: New episodes of Sesame Street. The long-running childrens series is looking for a new home for its original episodes, after Warner Bros. Discovery opted not to renew the Sesame output deal with HBO and Max. That being said, Max is staying in business with the shows producer Sesame...

Former soccer star David Beckham and Netflixs chief content officer Bela Bajaria will join forces for a fireside chat at the inaugural MIP London content and networking market in February. Collaborators on the Emmy award-winning documentary series Beckham and with the Brits Studio 99 now in production on the doc following his wife, Victoria Beckham, the pair will share the...