Variety: Amazon Brings Streaming to Masters Golf Tournament

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Amazon Prime Video is taking a different swing at a sports that hinges on exactly that sort of thing.

Broadband TV News: Ligue1+ surpasses one million subscriber milestone

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LFP Media has announced its streaming platform Ligue 1+ has exceeded one million subscribers, achieving the target initially set for the entire 2025/2026 season within the first month of competition.

Advanced Television: Prime Video brings Prime Vision to Champions League

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Prime Video has unveiled new broadcast enhancements for football fans watching the UEFA Champions League (UCL) on Prime Video this season, with the League Phase kicking-off on September 16th.

Deadline: Prime Video & RTL Team To Return ‘Gladiators’ To Germany After Three Decades

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Gladiators, ready!

Deadline: Sony Entertainment Television Board ‘Rise And Fall India’

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Here’s yet another example of linear TV networks and streamers working together.

Hollywood Reporter: David Zaslav Says TV Has Become a “Terrible Consumer Experience”

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For a guy who has spent pretty much his entire career in television, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav doesn’t seem to be a fan.

Deadline: Amazon Merges MGM Alternative TV With Studios Division; ‘The Voice’ & ‘Survivor’ Producer To Sit Under Vernon Sanders

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MGM Alternative TV is joining the rest of Amazon’s studio business after the unscripted production arm behind series such as Survivor and The Voice was moved under the oversight of Vernon Sanders.

New York Post: Warner Bros. boss David Zaslav is the real ‘Man of Steel’ in shifting media landscape

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They hate him in Hollywood, but increasingly they’re loving David Zaslav on Wall Street.

Deadline: Karin Lindstrom Joins Warner Bros Discovery Nordics After Amazon MGM Studios Exit

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Karin Lindström has joined Warner Bros Discovery in a senior Nordics programming role after her exit from Amazon MGM Studios.

Deadline; Media Stocks, Markets Soar As Fed Chief Signals September Rate Cut: “The Balance Of Risks Appears To Be Shifting”

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It’s been a long wait but Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell energized stocks today as he cracked open the door to a possible interest rate cut at the Central Bank’s September meeting.

Deadline; Amazon MGM Studios: Kara Smith & Tom Lieber Get New Roles As Laura Lancaster Restructures TV Co-Productions Division

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Laura Lancaster, Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series – Co-Productions at Amazon MGM Studios, has expanded the roles of her top lieutenants Kara Smith and Tom Lieber in the department that handles development and production of series coming from outside studios.

Advanced Television: Prime Video unveils inaugural 2025-26 NBA schedule

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Prime Video has announced 67 of the regular-season games for the inaugural season of the NBA on Prime as the NBA unveiled the full 2025-26 regular-season schedule.

Advanced Television: FilmRise short-form video on Amazon’s Fire TV channels in US

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FilmRise, a Radial Entertainment company and US-based film and television studio and streaming network, has expanded its content offering to include short-form content curated from FilmRise’s library on Fire TV Channels, available via all Fire TV and Echo Show devices in the US.

Advanced Television: Prime Video carries Ligue 1 Plus

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Prime Video has joined the roster of platforms hosting the new in-house Ligue 1 Plus direct-to-consumer (DTC) service having agreed a carriage deal with LFP, the French football governing body.

Variety: Amazon Reorganizes Audio Entertainment Operations; Wondery CEO Jen Sargent to Exit

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Amazon is reorganizing its audio entertainment operations with plans to consolidate some of the production now done across its Wondery and Audible brands.

Broadband TV News: RTLzwei and Warner Bros. Discovery joint ad sales venture gets green light from cartel office

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Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) has cleared the planned joint advertising sales company between RTLzwei and Warner Bros. Discovery, paving the way for the two broadcasters to consolidate their TV ad marketing efforts in a new venture called El Cartel Brothers.

Paramount Global/Skydance merger - Hollywood Reporter: Inside the $3 Billion ‘South Park’ Fight That May Blow Up Its Future

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The premiere for the 27th season of South Park later this month is in serious doubt amid wrangling between series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Paramount Global and incoming studio owner Skydance, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Deadline: ‘Bluey’ Tops Streaming Rankings Dominated By Acquired Titles From ‘Supernatural’ To ‘South Park’ In First Half Of 2025, Nielsen Says

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The results are in, and the streaming landscape was once again primarily dominated by acquired content in the first half of the year, according to a new report from Nielsen.

Deadline: Prime Video Italy Adds NBA As It Unveils Packed 2025 Slate Featuring ‘The Traitors Italia’ & Slew Of Romcom Movies

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Prime Video Italy unveiled its upcoming 2025 slate in Rome on Thursday, in an event attended by a host of local stars such as Michela Andreozzi, Stefano Cipani, Christian De Sica and Diana Del Bufalo as well as best-selling writer Felicia Kingsley and U.S. filmmaker Jessica Yu.

Advanced Television: France Télévisions seeks YouTube partnership; budget concerns

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Following its content distribution deal with Prime Video, France Télévisions is now seeking to strengthen its partnership with YouTube, the president of the French PSB Group, Delphine Ernotte Cunci, has revealed.