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...The valuation multiple now ascribed to ESPN may be too low for Disney’s business, which includes theme parks and the movie studio....
...Murdoch’s Fox News channel, with the most conservative audience of the three cable networks, has fared better than its rivals, while CNN has suffered more dramatic declines....
...In her 25 years at Fox, the studios she oversaw racked up 184 Emmy awards — and she took the Fox Broadcast group from fourth place to first during her four years running the business....
...Politicians from Margaret Thatcher to Donald Trump have sought the approval of Murdoch properties including The Sun, The Australian and Fox News, America’s most-watched cable news channel....
...At Warner’s movie studios, Zaslav acknowledged that there were “some real misses” over the past year....
...In 1995, he persuaded Ted Turner to sell CNN — another pioneering cable channel — and the rest of his TV, movie and sports empire to Time Warner....
...US networks Fox and NBCUniversal reported that advertising revenue was falling, while publishers such as News Corp, The New York Times and the UK’s Reach have posted declines....
...Former BBC and New York Times head Mark Thompson has been appointed chief executive of CNN, as the troubled cable news channel seeks to turn round its business after a rocky year and a half....
...CNN has fallen to a distant third place in the ratings, behind rivals Fox News and MSNBC....
...But CNN’s ratings have fallen well behind rival networks MSNBC and Fox....
...Paramount, which owns assets including the eponymous movie studio and television channels in addition to Simon & Schuster, has been shopping the publisher again as it looks to focus on the streaming video...
...(Armstrong & Wu) One good read AQR’s Clifford Asness on Dumb Money, the new movie about GameStop....
...Disney acquired a 5 per cent stake in DraftKings in 2019 when it bought 21st Century Fox....
...So the Fox acquisition was a huge deal for Disney because it basically got a hold of Fox’s movie and television productions, its FX cable network, the National Geographic properties, Hulu, as I mentioned...
...The most anticipated movie of the year would have made a fine centrepiece....
...This is down from the more than $2bn CNN earned in 2020, but it is still higher than the channel’s revenue from 2019 and all previous years....
...He took on a lofty, expensive new project: launching a cable news channel....
...Seen from a distance, Hollywood’s “hot labour summer” could look a little like pampered movie stars throwing a strop....
...Zaslav, a lawyer by training, began his TV career at the NBC network, where he helped launch the business-focused cable channel CNBC and news network MSNBC. He took over at Discovery in 2007....
...It occasionally slips into fourth place behind Newsmax, an upstart rightwing cable channel....
...A comic book becomes a movie which becomes a video game which becomes a theme park attraction, and so on....
...While not a movie, the Channel 5 reality series Rich House, Poor House sees families of different income levels trade homes, budgets and lifestyles (“In six weeks, they spend what you do in a year.”)...
...Sunday Ticket is a subscription service which allows viewers to pay to watch out-of-market NFL games not available on their local CBS or Fox affiliate channels, a quirk of the geographically diverse US landscape...
...It is also boosting its distribution channels in Ethiopia to amplify the reach of its latest superheroine series, Zufan, a sci-fi story that is inspired by the “Scramble for Africa” in the 19th century and...
...Advertising revenue across Warner’s television channels — which include CNN and HGTV — fell 11 per cent from a year ago to $1.9bn....
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