A legal brawl has broken out between Universal Music Group and Limp Bizkit over an alleged flaw in the record companys system that calculates royalties, with the band claiming that it didnt receive any fees for its music until this year when it uncovered the alleged defect. Limp Bizkit, in a lawsuit filed in California federal court on Tuesday, accuses...

OpenAI is partnering with Hearst, one of the nations largest owners of newspaper and magazine content. The collaboration, announced on Tuesday, spans over 20 magazine brands and 40 newspapers, becoming one of the companys most sizable media partnerships. Included in the agreement will be content from the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Runners World and Womens Health....

Fox is expanding its advertising sales team, bringing on Katrina Cukaj to serve as executive VP of ad sales and portfolio marketing. Cukaj will oversee Foxs entertainment ad sales for both linear TV and streaming, and will also oversee advanced advertising products, portfolio marketing and brand partnerships, agency relationships and Upfront negotiations. She will report to Foxs ad sales chief...

Canadian media giant Rogers Sports and Media is set to launch Warner Bros. Discovery-branded TV channels in Canada after rival Bell Media dropped a court action to block the distribution as planned from Jan. 1, 2025. Rogers became the exclusive English-language content rights holder, distributor, and advertising representative for the Discovery brands in Canada after it pulled the popular lifestyle...

The Chippendales Dancers are seeking to unionize with Actors Equity Association, which has been expanding the unions representation of 51,000 professional actors and stage managers on Broadway and in live theater. The dancers are part of the all-male revue known for their strip teases, based out of the Rio hotel and casino in Las Vegas. They also regularly tour and...

U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, led by CEO Alex Mahon, reported a record full-year 2023 loss of 52 million ($68 million) amid what it called a sharp and prolonged advertising downturn that saw U.K. ad revenue fall 9 percent, partially due to a correction after the post-COVID boom, as well as a strategic decision to keep spending on its digital transformation...

SkyShowtime, the European streaming joint venture of Comcast and Paramount Global, on Tuesday unveiled the upcoming launch of a new advertising-free premium plan, which will be offered alongside its existing Standard With Ads and standard, previously named Standard Plus, plans. The introduction of SkyShowtime Premium follows the launch earlier this year of the ad tier and will become available in...

Amazon is pushing back against a lawsuit accusing it of misleading Prime subscribers by charging them an additional fee to stream movies and TV shows without ads. In a bid to dismiss the proposed class action, the company argues that it previously disclosed that the bundle of Prime benefits is subject to change. It says that it never guaranteed that...

In a move that continues to beef up its editorial arm, Skybound has hired comic book industry veteran Nachie Marsham as senior editor. In that role, Marsham will manage Skybounds partnership with Lego Books, as well as develop a new slate of original comics. Marshams hiring positions the multimedia company to grow its editorial output and shores up its commitment...

The gossip column is dead. With one exception. In November of 1976, right after Rupert Murdoch bought theNew York Post, he tasked James Brady with executing his broad concept for a full page of short news items filed by a variety of contributors and edited with a consistent, and consistently cheeky, voice. Brady and a few stringers quickly pulled together...

A proliferation of mini rooms was a key stumbling block to resolving the 2023 Writers Guild of America work stoppage and the new three-year deal included minimum staffing requirements to end the Hollywood writers strike. But the Canadian TV industry apparently hasnt got the memo about new writers rooms staffing minimums, judging by the Writers Guild of Canadas latest equity,...

Nothing succeeds like success, but in Silicon Valley nothing raises eyebrows like a steady trickle out the door. The exit of OpenAIs chief technology officer Mira Murati announced on Sept. 25 has set Silicon Valley tongues wagging that all is not well in Altmanland especially since sources say she left because shed given up on trying to reform or slow...

The tech giant Meta is leaning further into video, announcing an artificial intelligence-powered video generation and editing tool, and a tweak to Facebook that will make its Reels video content more prominent for users of the social network. The Facebook tweaks were announced at an event in Austin, Texas Friday, while details on the the AI-generated video tool were published...