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

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Gladiators, ready!

Variety: Sony Pictures Television Reups Movie Slate Deal With Turkish Pay Operator Sinema TV

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Sony Pictures Television has extended its first-run feature film slate deal with Turkish pay TV operator Sinema TV.

Broadband TV News: FranceTV Publicité partners with RTL AdAlliance to expand international reach

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FranceTV Publicité, the advertising sales house of French public broadcaster France Télévisions, has signed an exclusive agreement with RTL AdAlliance to represent its television and digital advertising inventory across most of Europe and selected international markets.

Advanced Television: Eutelsat renews Multimedios Televisión deal

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Eutelsat has announced the renewal of its multi-year partnership with Multimedios Televisión, a Mexican FTA broadcasters and part of Grupo Multimedios, the national media conglomerate.

Advanced Television: NHK’s 8K doc wins IBC Innovation Award

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A spectacular marine documentary, captured in 8K UHD by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, has won an IBC Innovation Award at the 2025 event.

Advanced Television: TikTok’s Jordan joins Little Dot Studios

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Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company), has appointed Erik Jordan as its new VP, Content Strategy, US.

Warner Bros. Discovery/Paramount Skydance Corporation merger - New York Post: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav wants bidding war for his media giant — even as Paramount Skydance plans takeover offer

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Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav is looking to set up a bidding war for his media conglomerate – even as David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance plans a multibillion-dollar takeover offer, The Post has learned.

Cord Cutters: Comcast is Laying Off More Staff at CNBC

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CNBC, a leading business news network, has initiated a downsizing plan targeting up to two dozen employees within its international operations, which are primarily based in London and Singapore, with additional offices in other global cities.

Warner Bros. Discovery/Paramount Skydance Corporation merger - Cord Cutters: Warner Bros. Discovery Hopes Amazon, Apple, or Netflix Will Buy Its Struggling Company

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The media industry is undergoing a seismic shift as Warner Bros. Discovery’s chief executive, David Zaslav, maneuvers to ignite a fierce bidding war for his sprawling conglomerate, even while David Ellison’s freshly merged Paramount Skydance gears up for a massive multibillion-dollar acquisition push to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.

Broadband TV News: German media regulator clears RTL’s acquisition of Sky Deutschland

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German media regulator KEK has given the green light for RTL Group’s planned takeover of Sky Deutschland and its subsidiary NBC Universal Global Networks Deutschland.

Warner Bros. Discovery/Paramount Skydance Corporation merger - Variety: Why Does David Ellison Want Paramount to Swallow Warner Bros. Discovery Whole? To Beat Rival Suitors to the Punch

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David Ellison’s Skydance Media just completed the $8 billion takeover of Paramount Global five weeks ago.

Warner Bros. Discovery/Paramount Skydance Corporation merger - New York Post: Sizing Up A Possible Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger, Hollywood Wonders If This Episode Is A Repeat

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News that Paramount is exploring a bid for all of Warner Bros. Discovery, just weeks after closing its merger with Skydance, has bent a few brains from Wall Street to Hollywood despite recent speculation that something was in motion.

Warner Bros. Discovery/Paramount Skydance Corporation merger - New York Post; The Larry and David show: Flush Ellisons set sights on Warner Bros. Discovery

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Look no further than David Ellison’s father for reasons number one, two and three behind Paramount Skydance’s reportedly likely and imminent bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.

Broadband TV News: RTL Deutschland expands content partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery

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German broadcaster RTL Deutschland has expanded its long-standing content partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery, securing a new package that includes rights to recent cinema blockbusters, US series and the studio’s extensive film and series library.

Broadband TV News: After Intelsat merger, SES launches new brand

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The newly merged SES, one of the world’s largest satellite operators formed in the wake of its merger with Intelsat, unveiled a completely new brand today.

Broadband TV News: Eutelsat adds two more FAST channels

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Eutelsat is adding two more channels on it FAST channels line-up.

Warner Bros. Discovery/Paramount Skydance Corporation merger - Variety: Warner Bros. Discovery Shares Spike on Report David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance Readying Acquisition Bid

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Shares of Warner Bros. Discovery shot up as much as 33% Thursday on a report by the Wall Street Journal that Paramount Skydance is prepping a takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery in its entirety.

Advanced Television: Warner Bros Discovery, Nielsen sign measurement and analytics deal

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Warner Bros Discovery and Nielsen, the specialist in audience measurement, data and analytics, have signed a new, long-term, multi-year deal, effective immediately.

Advanced Television: Eultelsat distributes SoFast’s Baywatch TV in MENA

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Eutelsat and SoFast, a player in the creation, playout and monetisation of FAST and linear channels, have partnered to distribute the channel Baywatch TV, subtitled in Arabic.

Warner Bros. Discovery/Paramount Skydance Corporation merger - Deadline: Warner Bros. Discovery Stock Soars Amid Report of David Ellison Offer

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Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders finally have a growth stock on their hands — for today, anyway.