Paramount Global/Skydance merger - Variety: CBS News Digital’s WGA East Union Members Reach Deal on Three-Year Contract, One Week Before Skydance Is Set to Take Over

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Writers Guild of America East members at CBS News Digital reached a deal with management on their first collective-bargaining agreement, coming after more than a year of negotiations.

Deadline: FCC Chair Launches Inquiry Into NBCU Over Treatment Of Local Affiliates

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The chairman of the FCC has opened another inquiry into a major media company, this time over the relationship between Comcast‘s NBCUniversal and its local broadcast affiliates.

Hollywood Reporter: ‘E! News’ Shutters, and a Celebrity Golden Era Comes to an End

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The demise of E! News, which will air its final TV broadcast on Sept. 25, marks the latest nail in cable TV’s coffin.

Hollywood Reporter: Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer’s Pay Fell to $9.8 Million in 2025

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Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer saw his total compensation fall to $9.8 million for fiscal 2025, according to the company’s latest proxy filing released Tuesday.

Advanced Television: TF1 H1 revenue flat; record audiences for TF1+

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French broadcaster TF1 group has reported consolidated revenue amounted to €1.1 billion in the first half of 2025, stable year on year (- €1 million).

Advanced Television: Samba TV partners with Kochava

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Samba TV, a specialist in AI-driven media intelligence, has announced a strategic partnership with Kochava, the omnichannel measurement and attribution company.

Advanced Television: Fernandes heads social creative at Little Dot Studios

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Little Dot Studios, an All3Media company, has appointed Steph Fernandes as its new Head of Social Creative, Entertainment.

Advanced Television: ITV Studios signs scripted deal with Canada’s CBC

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ITV Studios has announced a series of sales to CBC across its drama slate.

Hollywood Reporter: TNT Sports Quadruples Down on Savannah Bananas, Will Televise Banana Ball Championship

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TNT Sports will be seeing yellow over the next couple of months, with the sports division inking the biggest TV deal yet for the Savannah Bananas and Banana Ball, including the first ever Banana Ball tour championship.

Broadband TV News: Canal+ drops wholesale subscribers

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Canal+ says it is treating the maintenance of its direct-to-consumer subscriber bases as a “priority”, while adopting a more “selective approach” on wholesale distribution.

Hollywood Reporter: ‘NBC Nightly News’ EP Meghan Rafferty Exits to Join Versant

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NBC Nightly News executive producer Meghan Rafferty will exit the evening newscast to join Versant, the forthcoming Comcast spinoff that will include most of the company’s cable TV brands.

Variety: Versant Names Tom Rogers Senior Adviser

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Tom Rogers helped launch MSNBC and CNBC.

Deadline: Broadcast TV Lobby Praises FCC Chairman For Deregulatory Push, Even As He Also Investigates Some Of Their Members

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The ads from the broadcast lobby have popped up on social media in recent months: “Thank you Chairman Carr!”

Paramount Global/Skydance merger - New York Post: Former CBS anchor Connie Chung warns Paramount merger marks ‘the end’ of the network and ‘honest’ journalism

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Former CBS anchor Connie Chung warned on CNN Friday that the recent merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media could be the “end” of journalism as she once knew it.

Broadband TV News: Maximilian Orgonyi to lead transformation and AI strategy at RTL Deutschland

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RTL Deutschland has expanded its executive leadership, appointing Maximilian Orgonyi as Chief Transformation Officer with effect from 1 August 2025.

Deadline: Canal+ Revenue Falls 3.3% To $3.6B But Says Earnings On Track; ‘Paddington’ Company Raises $330M

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Canal+ has posted half-year revenue of €3.08B ($3.57B), down 3.3% year-on-year on a reported basis, but is telling shareholders earnings are expected to get a “significant” increase in H2.

Advanced Television: OSN CEO steps down

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The CEO of Dubai-based pay-TV operator OSN has stepped down after three years in the job.

Variety: Sanford Panitch to Remain Sony Pictures President, Studio Announces Key Promotions as Josh Greenstein Departs

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Sanford Panitch will remain as president of Sony‘s Motion Picture Group.

Hollywood Reporter: Warner Bros. Discovery’s Post-Split Companies Will Be Warner Bros. and Discovery

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Warner Bros. Discovery, meet Warner Bros. and Discovery.

Paramount Global/Skydance merger - Variety: Josh Greenstein to Join Paramount Following Skydance Sale

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Josh Greenstein has been tapped to join Paramount following the company’s sale to Skydance.