Sling TV will pay $530,000 to settle a lawsuit from California accusing it of failing to provide an easy-to-use mechanism for consumers to stop the sale of their personal information and provide sufficient privacy protections for children. Under the deal, the Dish-owned company will streamline the opt-out process and provide parents with clear disclosures and tools to minimize the collection...

Actors Equity has voted to ratify its contract with the Broadway League. The vote comes after the union for actors and stage managers reached a tentative agreement with the Broadway League over a new contract Oct. 18, after threatening to strike if a deal could not be reached. After weeks of negotiations, Equity had voted to authorize a strike if...

The price of a share of Netflix is about to get less expensive, with the streaming giants board of directors signing off on a 10-for-one stock split, the company said Thursday. Netflix was trading at $1,089 at market close Thursday. At that price, shares would trade at about $109 post-split. The split is meant specifically to reset the market price...

Roku reported net revenue of $1.21 billion and net income hit 24.8 million for its third quarter, with both beating Wall Street expectations. The company also achieved positive operating income for the first time since 2021, reaching $9.5 million. Platform revenue was up 17 percent year over year, hitting $1.065 billion, due to strength in video advertising and streaming services...

Beauty vlogger Nabela Noor has signed with CAA for representation. Based in Pennsylvania and with roots in Bangladesh,Nooris a homemaker, designer, author and influencer as the founder of her own home and lifestyle brand, Nabela Noor Home (NNH). Noor reaches an audience of over 12 million social media followers and has had around two billion views for her digital content....

Comcast is very much interested in MA dealmaking, but it still has a high bar for potential acquisitions, co-CEO Mike Cavanagh told Wall Street analysts Thursday. Cavanagh was asked about reports that Comcast may be interested in pursuing Warner Bros. Discovery, and whether Comcast would be able to get a deal through given the current regulatory regime. The executive noted...

The local TV giant Nexstar has signed its chairman and CEO Perry Sook to a new employment contract, one that will keep the executive at the helm of the company through March 2029. Sook, who founded Nexstar in 1996, is also the third largest shareholder in the company after the institutional firms Blackrock and Vanguard, holding 5.8 percent of the...

Fox topped Wall Streets expectations for its fiscal first quarter of 2026, despite a profit decline. News, Tubi and the NFL were the usual bright spots for this time of year, carrying advertising revenue to a six percent increase. Content (and other) revenues doubled that growth on a percentage basis. On a conference call following the earnings release, Fox executive...

Comcast is promoting Steve Croney to the role of CEO of its Connectivity Platforms division, succeeding Dave Watson on Jan. 1, 2026. Croney is currently the chief operating officer of the unit. In the new role, Croney will be responsible for Comcasts residential and commercial connectivity businesses, including broadband, wireless and its entertainment distribution platforms, the company said on Thursday...

SiriusXM reported third-quarter revenue of $2.16 billion, above analyst expectations but down 1 percent from the prior-year period, and net income of $297 million, after reporting a net loss of $29.6 billion a year ago. The company reported earnings per share of $0.84, above analyst expectations and compared to a loss of $8.74 in the third quarter of 2024. The...

Peacock, the streaming service ofComcasts entertainment unitNBCUniversal, lowered its third-quarter loss to $217 million compared with $436 million in the year-ago period. The streamer, whose new programming in the latest period included The Paper and M3GAN 2.0, ended September with 41 million paying subscribers, steady compared with the end of June and 36.0 million a year ago, the company said...

Ramsey Naito is the latest executive at Paramount to depart the studio as CEO David Ellison continues his leadership shakeup. Naito, who has been the president of Paramount Animation since September 2021, shared in a message to employees Wednesday evening, I want to sharewith you that I am leaving thecompany and closing this very special chapter with all of you....

Its been around three years since the first AI copyright lawsuit was filed. The state of play is still unclear, but winners and losers in certain cases are emerging. So far, one of the losers appears to be OpenAI in a lawsuit from book authors, who have steadily been building a formidable case that may force the tech giants hand...