The battle between Paramount Global and measurement giant Nielsen is fast becoming a war of words. In a dispatch sent to clients earlier this week, Nielsen CEO Karthik Rao said that Paramount has been pushing for “a nearly 50% reduction in the price of our service” in as-yet-unfruitful negotiations between the two sides that has resulted […]

David Chalian, a veteran political journalist who has long helped put together CNN’s most important nights of election coverage, has been named the network’s Washington Bureau chief. Chalian will now oversee the network’s Washington, D.C. bureau as well as CNN’s Washington political news coverage. He will continue to supervise CNN’s daily political reporting across all […]

James Longman was named chief international correspondent for ABC News, a new role for the veteran overseas journalist. “His intrepid reporting and powerful storytelling have elevated ABC News’ global coverage since he joined seven years ago, and in this new, well-deserved role, James will continue to deliver best-in-class journalism for our audiences across all programs […]

Bill Sammon, a veteran of Washington D.C. media outlets and a former longtime senior editorial executive at Fox News Channel, has been named a senior vice president at Nexstar Media, where he will oversee news coverage of the nation’s capital for both The Hill and NewsNation, two of the company’s media properties. Sammon, who left […]

GoDaddy was once known for outlandish Super Bowl commercials that sometimes used scantily-clad models. Now the web-services giant is getting ready to return with a promotional message that taps science rather than scandal. The company will take to Super Bowl LIX next year to tout Airo, an artificial-intelligence service that helps small-business owners establish an […]

Netflix, a company that once dismissed the concept of allowing commercials around its popular streaming content, now can’t seem to get enough of them. The streaming giant said Tuesday that its ad-supported tier now reaches 70 million users around the globe, compared with the 40 million it revealed in May and the 22 million it […]

Chris Wallace came to CNN to get heavily involved with reaching streaming audiences, and it looks like he will leave the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed news outlet still looking to do the same. Wallace, a veteran commentator who held forth on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Sunday” as well as NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” told […]

At the start of Election Night, even executives at Fox News Channel didn’t think Donald Trump had a decisive edge over Kamala Harris. “At 5 p.m., the most likely outcome was a very close election,” says Arnon Mishkin, who has directed Fox News’ decision desk for years. “Different people looked at the data and said […]

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, […]