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...Warner Bros Discovery shares fell 19 per cent on Wednesday for their biggest daily drop since March 2021 after the entertainment group warned investors it was “unlikely” to meet its goals for paying off...
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...Disney’s ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery plan to launch a sports streaming service later this year that will aggregate the games offered by the media groups’ traditional television networks....
...industry, and was seen as an endorsement of the company’s investment in its Paramount+ streaming platform, as well as its ability to compete with deeper pocketed rivals such as Netflix, Disney and Warner Bros...
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...Warner Bros Discovery had 96mn streaming subscribers at the end of June, while HBO received 125 Emmy award nominations this year, more than any other network....
...Whenever questions about CNN’s declining ratings have come up over the past year, Warner Bros Discovery chief executive David Zaslav has urged patience....
...Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, Comcast and Paramount — US entertainment conglomerates that have been growing ever larger for decades — are facing pressure to shrink or sell legacy businesses, scale back...
...An advertiser exodus from Elon Musk’s X gathered pace on Friday, with Apple, Walt Disney, Comcast, Paramount and Warner Bros all pausing spending on the social media platform amid concerns about antisemitic...
...After leaving the company that further deals would turn into Warner Bros Discovery, Levin married his third wife, Laurie Ann Levin, who ran a holistic healing institute in Los Angeles....
...The other shadow hanging over Warner Bros Discovery is uncertainty about Zaslav’s endgame....
...It could have been an oversight, but I doubt it: both Mattel and Barbie’s studio Warner Bros want to please Chinese consumers. Film creativity is not dead, though....
...Warner Bros Discovery lost more than $1bn in the first quarter, underscoring the heavy costs Hollywood giants are enduring as they pivot their businesses towards streaming to offset shrinking audiences for...
...Nolan later announced that after two decades making Warner Bros movies, his relationship with the studio was over....
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...Thompson, who started out as an editorial trainee at the BBC more than four decades ago, will lead CNN’s business and also act as “editor-in-chief” for the news network, parent company Warner Bros Discovery...
...CNN, which is owned by Warner Bros Discovery, will be gearing up to cover the 2024 US presidential election — the type of big news event that the network would have once dominated....
...The problem is this is a crowded space, with rivals including Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery is set to do the same thing. A good TV series rarely spawns a superior sequel....
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