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...He had made his start in the entertainment industry in the early 1970s at an obscure, money-losing outpost of the Time Inc empire called Home Box Office....
...WWE signed a $1bn rights agreement with NBC’s Peacock streaming network in 2021, which will be up for renewal in 2026....
...Maga Inc, a pro-Trump super Pac, has booked just $6.5mn....
...The Turner television networks are in Atlanta....
...You have to wonder, though, what Jack Nicholson, picked by Stanley Kubrick for his unrealised biopic, would have sounded like....
...Payment networks do restrict things that are legal, like menstrual blood or cats. Is that actually Visa or Mastercard? Here’s Stanley again....
...Landgraf, chair of Disney’s FX network, conceded that he could be wrong this time too....
...AT&T agreed to spin off and merge WarnerMedia with rival Discovery earlier this year at a significantly lower price than it paid to acquire the entertainment group in 2016....
...News of the deal sent stock in Sony tumbling 12.8 per cent on Wednesday, the Japanese entertainment conglomerate’s steepest one-day drop since the financial crisis....
...ESPN presents one of the most interesting conundrums in the entertainment business....
...He joins from Morgan Stanley, where he was vice-chair of global investment banking and a managing director for Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities’ investment banking division....
...Murdochs, Redstones and Turners The merger is a remarkable coup for Zaslav, a hyper-ambitious executive who has catapulted himself to the top of the food chain in entertainment....
...Alongside rival Turner, the network paid $24bn in 2014 to renew their deals with the NBA through the 2024 season — more than triple the value of their previous agreement....
...In Dubai, Credit Suisse is hiring Morgan Stanley dealmaker Tara Luthra to expand its investment banking business in the Middle East, Bloomberg reported....
...A year on and the Jacksonville-based organisation is proving a worthy opponent to industry behemoth World Wrestling Entertainment....
...Back to sellside, and Morgan Stanley’s gone negative on Next....
...Two years ago, International Entertainment Corporation, a Hong Kong-listed operator of hotels and casinos controlled by the poker player Stanley Choi, bought Wigan for £22m from longtime owner Dave Whelan...
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...But that put a floor on the price for HBO Max, due to the network’s valuable contracts with cable distributors....
...Both international and domestic companies are competing for dominance in what is one of the world’s biggest entertainment markets....
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...US broadcaster Turner has offered its advertisers a full refund on inventory they bought for the cancelled NCAA college basketball tournament, according to Michael Neuman, partner for Scout Sports & Entertainment...
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Morgan Stanley estimates that in five years, Americans could pay for 305m subscriptions to streaming services, rising from around 180m today....
...The hiring of Mr Greenblatt follows last week’s tumultuous departures of Richard Plepler, the HBO chief who oversaw the pay TV service’s golden age, and David Levy, the head of Turner’s entertainment division...
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