Paramount Global added 3.5 million new Paramount+ subscribers in its third quarter, but those gains failed to offset meaningful declines in its larger TV and film businesses. The owner of the CBS broadcast network, the Paramount movie studio and cable networks Comedy Central said third-quarter revenue fell 6% to $6.73 billion from $7.13 billion in […]

Two leading Wall Street analysts pressed executives at Warner Bros. Discovery about the possibility of breaking up the troubled media conglomerate as executives tried to defend their vision of operating the home of CNN, the Warner Bros. studio and the Max streaming service for the longer term. “Your company is trading like a company that’s […]

Some of the nation’s biggest TV anchors saw the plans they had for Election Night change almost as soon as the first exit polls came in. Early preparations for election coverage had called for hours and hours spent on sifting through what was supposed to be a neck-and-neck race. Instead former President Donald Trump quickly […]

Most of the nation’s big TV-news anchors used the same phrase throughout Election Night: “We’re not there yet.” As things turned out, they were. TV networks came to the 2024 Election ready for a rehash of the one they covered in 2020. Executives had 24-hour coverage sessions mapped out for the battle between former President […]

Brian Williams didn’t come to Election Night to break news, but rather to put it all together. The NBC News veteran kicked off an interesting American experiment Tuesday evening by taking to Amazon’s Prime Video to host a live hours-long Election Night special on the streaming giant’s massive platform. Williams got to use his gift […]

Joy Reid got the call while she was waiting in a restaurant at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to get on a plane to Paris. Nicolle Wallace received a summons, she remembers, when “I was in the middle of nowhere with my son and had no makeup.” To respond to similar requests, says […]

A surge in ad revenue tied to the coming 2024 presidential election and to a summer filled with soccer broadcasts boosted results in Fox Corp’s first fiscal quarter. The owner of the Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports and Fox News Media said net income attributable to Fox Corporation stockholders came to $827 million, or $1.78 […]

Who needs Maya Rudolph when you can show off the real thing? U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is expected to appear on “Saturday Night Live,” according to a person familiar with the matter, the latest Oval Office hopeful to visit the show in an election year in a bid to win […]

Nielsen will let the media outlets it tabulates add their own audience data to its ratings tabulation, a move that the measurement giant sees as an inevitable one in the age of streaming but that detractors suggest could give an unfair early advantage to established digital players such as Amazon. The Media Rating Council, an […]

Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, filed a lawsuit seeking $10 billion from CBS News and “60 Minutes,” alleging the venerable newsmagazine’s interview of his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, was used to mislead voters in the middle of the 2924 election. A version of the interview that aired during the actual “60 Minutes” broadcast […]

Unlike its rivals, NBCUniversal long ago developed a healthy fear of zombies. Not the shambling, undead kind that lurch around trying to eat brains, but rather the media variety: “Undead” cable networks that long ago gave up all hopes of cultivating audiences around the clock and instead run only a few hours of original programming, […]

Not many people who work at Fox News Channel get to push back at Sean Hannity. Lawrence Jones is one of them. When Jones was just getting started at the Fox Corp.-backed conservative-leaning news outlet, Hannity took him under his wing, and offered advice, even the chance to start appearing on his well-watched primetime program. […]

Comcast found a way to get it past its usual challenges of consumers leaving its cable offerings and getting people to visit its theme parks: the Olympics. This summer’s extravaganza from Paris helped the cable-and-entertainment conglomerate power its way past some of its business issues, with overall revenue up 6.5% to $32.07 billion compared to […]

Disney hopes the Grammys can sing a new tune. The annual music awards program, which has been shown on CBS since 1973, will move to Disney outlets starting in 2027. The company said it will simulcast the kudosfest across ABC, Hulu and Disney+ as part of a 10-year deal that will make it the home […]

Can Amazon unite the NFL and the NBA for a unique business proposition? The streaming giant, which launched a new Black Friday NFL game last year — the first of its kind and an event created specifically for Amazon’s Prime Video service — will add an NBA match to the mix next year, executives disclosed […]

Nicolle Pangis, a former CEO of the cable-ad-sales entity Ampersand, will join Netflix as its new vice president of advertising, a role that has not been easy to navigate at the streaming giant as it seeks to make dollars from Madison Avenue a bigger part of its overall business plan. More to come…

Andrea Mitchell, one of the longest-running presences on MSNBC, will give up the reins to her daily noontime show at the NBCUniversal-backed cable-news outlet following the presidential inauguration in 2025, she informed viewers Tuesday at the end of her program. The veteran journalist is expected to retain her roles as NBC News’ chief Washington correspondent […]

The flow of ad dollars to women’s sports is growing. After launching an initiative earlier in 2024 to double the amount of money its clients spend on women’s sports, GroupM, the large WPP-backed media-investment giant, says it has exceeded its initial goals. “Doubling spend in women’s sports within a matter of months marks a significantmilestone […]

After throwing characters from Marvel and Toy Story into its ongoing battle to lure young viewers to its increasingly expensive sports telecasts, Disney’s ESPN is really bringing in the big guns. Characters from the long-running animated series “The Simpsons” will join a December 9th “Monday Night Football” game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys […]