Paramount Global for sale latest - Broadband TV News: CBS News staff are bracing for possible layoffs

Story from Broadband TV News:

CBS News staff are bracing for possible layoffs as its parent company, now part of Paramount Skydance, moves ahead with $2 billion in cost cuts due to declining traditional TV ad and distribution revenue, reports Variety.

RTÉ News: Former bogus self-employed RTÉ worker loses WRC case

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A former bogus self-employed worker at RTÉ has lost his claim to retrospective pay and holiday entitlements from the broadcaster as a result of the misclassification of his employment status for over six years.

Warner Bros Discovery axe some channels in America

HBO Family and the few Cinemax channels set to close after tonight have now been pulled from Xfinity, YouTube, & Spectrum far as I know.

Paramount Global for sale latest - Variety: Paramount Skydance Shares End Roller-Coaster, Memestock-Fueled Week Up 30%, Boosting Market Cap by $2 Billion

Story from Variety:

Paramount Skydance, over its first full week on the stock market under new owners, saw its stock jump 30% — and boomed as much as 60% in intraday trading Wednesday.

Variety: ‘CBS Evening News’ Executive Producer Guy Campanile to Return to ’60 Minutes’

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Guy Campanile, a longtime “60 Minutes” producer who was tasked with managing a significant overhaul of the venerable “CBS Evening News,” is returning to his old stomping grounds.

Deadline: PBS To Cut Budget By 21% Following Public Media’s Loss Of Federal Funding

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PBS plans to cut its budget by 21% as public media faces the loss of $1.1 billion in federal funding over the next two fiscal years.

Paramount Global for sale latest - Deadline: Paramount+ Opening Up To Outside Studios, May Experiment With Release Patterns, Won’t Try To Replicate CBS-Style Programming

Story from Deadline:

Paramount+ is once again a real buyer following Skydance’s acquisition of the streamer’s parent Paramount Global.

Broadband TV News: DAZN CEO hits out at Belgian telecom operators

Story from Broadband TV News:

The CEO of DAZN Belgium has criticised the country’s telecom companies after the continued failure to reach agreement on the distribution of topflight football.

Advanced Television: DAZN offers free La Liga highlights globally

Story from Advanced Television:

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has secured the global rights to build an official La Liga Channel on the DAZN platform for the 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons, as it continues to expand its free football offering.

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

Story from Advanced Television:

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

Story from Advanced Television:

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: Viaplay doubling up on Premier Sunday

Story from Advanced Television:

Viaplay Premier Sunday is returning for the 2025/2026 Premier League season with double the number of live broadcasts (from 10 to 20).

Advanced Television: DirecTV, Learfield sign multi-year deal

Story from Advanced Television:

DirecTV, the US broadcaster, has announced a multi-year, strategic and year-round collaboration with six US university athletic departments ahead of the 2025 college football season.

Hollywood Reporter: Starz Sheds 520,000 Subscribers As Revenue Declines Post-Lionsgate Split

Story from Hollywood Reporter:

Newly-solo Starz released its second quarter financials on Thursday, with revenue down and a swing to an operating loss.

Advanced Television: Prime Video carries Ligue 1 Plus

Story from Advanced Television:

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.

Advanced Television: Warner Bros Discovery seals deal for 2025 World Athletics Championships

Story from Advanced Television:

The best track and field athletes on the planet will compete for the right to be crowned World Champion this September with Warner Bros Discovery set to screen the action through a new broadcast partnership with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Paramount Global for sale latest - Hollywood Reporter: Paramount Skydance Gets Volatile Memestock Rally As David Ellison Takes Over

Story from Hollywood Reporter:

Shares in newly-minted Paramount Skydance are nearing meme darling status on the heels of closing a merger between the storied Hollywood studio and David Ellison’s Skydance, and then unveiling a deal with UFC and parent TKO to make Paramount+ the new streaming home to UFC events in the U.S.

Paramount Global for sale latest - Deadline: As Paramount Stock Surges, David Ellison Leans Into “Long Term” Approach In L.A. Meet & Greet; Praises CBS News As “Home Of Walter Cronkite”

Story from Deadline:

“We’re in the business of long-term value creation,” David Ellison proclaimed Wednesday as the stock of his newly minted Paramount, A Skydance Corporation leaped double digits in the first week of his reign.

Paramount Global for sale latest - Deadline: Shari Redstone Sued By Paramount Investor Mario Gabelli Over Terms Of Skydance Deal

Story from Deadline:

Mario Gabelli, the longtime fund manager who has made noise over the past two years about the terms of the Paramount-Skydance merger, has sued former Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone.

Paramount Global for sale latest - Deadline: Paramount Leadership On Not Spinning Off Cable Networks, Holding Onto BET & Plans For BET+

Story from Deadline:

There are three media companies that own a movie studio and a TV studio, a streamer and a substantial number of cable channels: NBCUniversal, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount.