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Today — 23 December 2024Main stream

DAZN Buys Australia’s Foxtel in $2.2 Billion Deal With News Corp and Telstra

22 December 2024 at 23:46
Sports streaming company DAZN is buying Australia’s Foxtel Group from majority shareholder News Corp and minority shareholder Telstra in a deal with an enterprise value of $2.2 billion. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, will bring together Foxtel — Australia’s original pay-TV operator, with 4.7 million subscribers — with DAZN, the privately held […]

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Netflix Scores FIFA Women’s World Cup Exclusive U.S. Rights for 2027 and 2031

20 December 2024 at 14:17
Netflix’s next shot on goal in live sports: the FIFA Women’s World Cup. FIFA and Netflix announced an agreement granting the streamer exclusive rights in the U.S. to the 2027 and 2031 installments of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. The companies said the deal “represents a landmark announcement for women’s football.” The FIFA Women’s World […]

Search Google for ‘Squid Game’ and You Can Play a Surprise Game From the Netflix Series

19 December 2024 at 19:11
Ahead of the Season 2 premiere of global hit “Squid Game,” Google is getting in on the deadly fun and games. Netflix partnered with Google Search on the Easter egg activation. To play the game, search “Squid Game” on Google and tap the brown envelope that appears at the bottom of the screen. The Google […]

Neil Cavuto Exits Fox News After 28 Years

19 December 2024 at 16:15
Neil Cavuto, a longtime Fox News anchor who joined when it launched in 1996, is exiting the cable news network. Cavuto’s contract with Fox News was due to expire at the end of 2024; the network offered him a new deal and he declined, a source familiar with the situation said. His departure comes as […]

Supreme Court Will Hear TikTok’s Appeal Challenging Ban

18 December 2024 at 16:26
The Supreme Court agreed to hear TikTok’s appeal for an emergency injunction blocking a federal law that would ban the popular video app unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake. The high court’s decision in the matter is a test of where the justices come down in weighing American’s constitutionally protected right to free speech […]

YouTube Sues Gan Jing World, Accusing Video Site of ‘Stealing’ Content to ‘Create a Clone of YouTube’

18 December 2024 at 11:05
YouTube filed a lawsuit against Ganjingworld, which operates the Gan Jing World video-sharing site, alleging that it has been “automatically vacuuming up YouTube user channels and associated content from YouTube.” Ganjingworld’s service “clones most of YouTube’s functionalities and its overall appearance,” YouTube says in the suit, filed Wednesday in California state court. “But GJW’s imitation […]

YouTube Teams With CAA to Let Talent Identify — and Pull Down — AI Deepfakes of Themselves

17 December 2024 at 18:00
In what’s being touted as the first partnership of its kind, CAA is collaborating with YouTube on a program promising to let actors, athletes and other talent fight back against AI-generated fakes uploaded to the video platform. YouTube’s message to Hollywood is that it’s trying to be a good partner to creative industries by taking […]

Keith Olbermann on How MSNBC Should Approach Trump 2.0

17 December 2024 at 15:00
What does MSNBC do now? After Trump accomplished the Undead thing and retook the White House? After Comcast announced plans to spin off the network (along with others) in such haste that its new company was named “SpinCo”? After Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went on their show and welcomed our new insect overlords? After […]

TikTok Files Emergency Appeal With Supreme Court Seeking to Block U.S. Ban

16 December 2024 at 21:30
TikTok filed an appeal with the Supreme Court seeking an emergency injunction to block a U.S. law from going into effect that would impose a nationwide ban on the popular app unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake in TikTok. In a statement Monday, TikTok said, “The Supreme Court has an established record of upholding […]

Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max Taps Netflix Alum Eric Pallotta to Oversee Social, Editorial Marketing

16 December 2024 at 21:30
Eric Pallotta is joining Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max direct-to-consumer streaming division as group senior VP of global brand, social and editorial. In the newly created role, Pallotta will lead the development of social strategies and editorial campaigns worldwide for Max. In addition, he will work with Zach Enterlin, executive VP, brand, content and creative for […]

NFL Inks Deal With Betches to Produce Football Content Targeted at Gen Z, Millennial Women

16 December 2024 at 13:00
The NFL already has women fans. According to the league, this year’s Super Bowl LVIII game had a record-breaking increase in female viewership, with women representing almost half of the total audience. But the NFL is continually looking to find new ways to grow its fanbase, particularly among younger consumers. To that end, the NFL […]

Netflix Gets Festive With Virtual Yule Logs for ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Bridgerton,’ ‘Spellbound’

13 December 2024 at 17:50
Now burning up on Netflix: a new spin on the classic TV yule-log. With less than two weeks to go before Christmas, Netflix has launched three themed virtual yule logs, each 60 minutes in length, based on Shonda Rhimes’ “Bridgerton” series, South Korean hit “Squid Game” (with Season 2 set to premiere Dec. 26) and […]

Amazon, Meta Are Both Donating $1 Million to Donald Trump’s Inauguration Fund

13 December 2024 at 12:01
Amazon and Meta, seeking to get in Donald Trump’s good graces, are each giving $1 million to the president-elect’s inauguration fund. Trump has previously lashed out at both Meta and Amazon, among other Big Tech companies, and the donations by the two massive internet corporations are seen as efforts to curry favor with the incoming […]

Warner Bros. Discovery Sells MotorTrend Group to Hearst

12 December 2024 at 19:30
Warner Bros. Discovery has sold the MotorTrend Group of automotive brands to Hearst Magazines. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. MotorTrend Group’s portfolio, which includes MotorTrend, Hot Rod, Roadkill and Automobile, “embodies car culture from electric vehicles to timeless classic customs,” according to the companies. The group’s brands reach more than 30 million users per […]

Lloyd Braun, Sarah Bremner, Noah Oppenheim Launch Prologue Entertainment, Indie Studio Backed by Jeff Zucker and RedBird

12 December 2024 at 17:00
A trio of entertainment veterans — Lloyd Braun, Sarah Bremner and Noah Oppenheim — have come together to form independent production studio Prologue Entertainment, with an investment from Jeff Zucker and RedBird Capital Partners. Prologue, with offices in New York and L.A., is set up to develop and produce premium scripted series and film content, […]

‘Hot Ones’ Studio Sold by BuzzFeed for $82.5 Million to Soros Fund, Sean Evans and Other Investors

12 December 2024 at 14:05
“Hot Ones” is going solo. BuzzFeed announced a deal to sell First We Feast, the studio behind the popular YouTube chicken-wing-eating celebrity talk show “Hot Ones,” for $82.5 million in cash to a group of investors. The consortium of buyers includes First We Feast founder Chris Schonberger and “Hot Ones” host Sean Evans, alongside podcast […]

Paramount Consolidation of U.S. TV and Streaming Distribution Teams Results in Staff Cuts

11 December 2024 at 22:45
Paramount Global is undergoing additional restructuring leading up to its expected merger with Skydance Media in 2025. The media conglomerate is integrating the group that handles distribution for the Paramount+ and Pluto TV streaming services with its U.S. TV networks distribution teams to “create one unified distribution team that is optimized for growth across our […]

Sacha Baron Cohen as Elon Musk? Actor Would Be the ‘Most Hilarious Choice’ to Portray Mogul in Movie, According to Musk’s Grok AI Chatbot: ‘Comedic Goldmine’

11 December 2024 at 19:27
Elon Musk, who seems to consider himself a comedian, has opined that “The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.” So it seemed reasonable to ask Grok, the artificial-intelligence chatbot from Musk’s xAI startup that last month became public to all users on X (née Twitter): Who would be the most hilarious actor to portray […]

Judge Blocks Onion’s Acquisition of Infowars Assets, Saying ‘I Don’t Think It’s Enough Money’

11 December 2024 at 04:55
A bankruptcy judge in Texas rejected the bid of satire site the Onion to acquire the assets of Infowars — the bankrupt outlet of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — saying the auction process lacked clarity and that the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims deserved more money than the Onion’s parent had bid. Judge […]

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