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...CBS agreed to pay the NFL about $2bn a year, the Financial Times reported at the time....
...While pursuing the NWSL rights deal, Berman said she stressed the importance of expanding women’s football on free-to-air television....
...Paramount+ and Channel 5 sit very comfortably together the same way CBS and Paramount+ sit in the US.”...
...The NCAA men’s basketball tournament, also known as March Madness, generates $870mn in annual revenues from its broadcast agreements with Paramount’s CBS and Warner Brothers Discovery....
...LIV Golf has been pitching itself to American television companies in a roadshow in recent weeks....
...Skydance would be open to selling some assets, such as television network CBS, as part of an effort to restructure the company and monetise parts of the business that do not fit well together....
...They have large stables of cable television networks, which are losing subscribers due to “cord cutting” and are heavily exposed to a weak TV advertising market....
...But I’m kind of joking,” said one longtime adviser to the Murdochs, referring to the HBO television show about a fictional media empire....
...Audacy was born from the merger of stalwarts, Entercom Communications and CBS Radio in 2017. In 2019, it generated nearly $350mn in annual ebitda....
...And its traditional TV business, which includes CBS and MTV, is in steep decline as “cord-cutting” continues....
...In an interview with CBS television before departing Beijing, Blinken said he had discussed the subject of Chinese spying operations in Cuba in his meetings with top officials....
...saying: “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.”...
...Trump cited a CBS poll released on Sunday that showed 62 per cent of likely Republican primary voters said they would back him, his largest lead to date in the race to clinch his party’s nomination....
...Disney is in the midst of a rethink of its television business, including ABC and sports behemoth ESPN....
...The rights, which expand from one contract with Paramount’s CBS to four partners including Disney’s ESPN and ABC, Amazon Prime Video, and Scripps’ Ion Television, represent a forty-fold increase in value...
...A CBS survey released on Sunday, cited by Trump, showed that 62 per cent of likely Republican primary voters now say they would back the beleaguered former president....
...“For decades people have been talking about soccer becoming more popular on television in the US, and it’s really starting to happen, it’s happening,” Sean McManus, chair of Paramount’s CBS Sports, told...
...In 2016 Les Moonves, the then head of CBS, said that Trump’s campaign “may not be good for America but it’s damn good for CBS.” There is no reason to think that has changed....
...He was a ruthless dealmaker, outmanoeuvring Barry Diller in an epic battle for Paramount studios in 1994, followed six years later by the even larger acquisition of television network CBS for $40bn....
...Speaking to CBS television before departing from Beijing, Blinken said he discussed Chinese spy operations in Cuba with top officials in China during his recent visit....
...Top US media companies CBS, Comcast’s NBC and Fox have agreed to pay roughly $7.5bn over seven years to show Big Ten college sports, according to a person familiar with the matter, a record contract that...
...Nexstar Media, a publicly traded owner of 200 local US television stations, took a 75 per cent stake in the network last year....
...potential candidates within Comcast include Jonathan Levy, Sky News’ director of news gathering; Chris Howard, the editor of news output; and David Rhodes, a group director at Sky who served as president of CBS...
...The head of Sky News has stepped down after 17 years running the UK-based news service, marking a new era for the Comcast-owned channel as it grapples with the decline of traditional television....
...“First Apple and now this . . . television, cable and satellite companies will struggle to respond”....
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