Hints and tips:
...cable channels,” said the former head of the BBC and The New York Times....
...Away from sports, Sky also faces a crucial renegotiation with Warner Brothers Discovery over extending its deal to show HBO programming beyond 2025....
...Disney urged affected subscribers to consider signing up for Hulu, the streaming service in which it has a majority stake, along with Comcast....
...Media companies and cable distributors have clashed over what content should be made available to cable customers and streaming platforms....
...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....
...Warner’s net debt stood at $43bn at the end of September, or 4.1 times its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, while Paramount had $14bn in net debt, or 6.1 times its ebitda, according...
...It also does not have the burden of legacy cable television networks that Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros and Universal do....
...Its broadcast and cable TV network business grapples with falling ad revenue and a shrinking subscriber base. Comcast however believes Hulu is worth much more....
...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...
...The total was almost 11 times as big as what clubs spent on transfers in the same period in 2020....
...Before that big step, ESPN is also launching a sports streaming joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros this autumn....
...It is on its way to shrinking its leverage ratio from 4.6 times currently to under 3 times over the next 18 months....
...Warner is also in talks to bring in Mark Thompson, a respected news veteran who ran the BBC and the New York Times, to right the ship at CNN, according to a person familiar with the matter....
...After all, even as cord-cutting has chipped away at the pay TV audience, there are still some 50mn households paying for cable or satellite television....
...Get out your glad rags because it’s time for the rich and powerful to show off in front of the cameras....
...Earlier this month, more than 3mn people tuned in to watch Clark break the all-time scoring record in college basketball — for men and women....
...And so all of a sudden, his raison d’être is changed,” says one former Time Warner official. “He couldn’t have bought the company at a worse time.”...
...The remaining package of games on Saturday lunchtime has been acquired by TNT, the broadcaster co-owned by BT and Warner Brothers Discovery....
...Warner board member....
...Major studio chiefs, including Disney’s Bob Iger, Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav, Donna Langley, chair of Comcast’s NBCUniversal Studio, and Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos, are said to have been deeply...
...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....
...“You have to be willing to pivot,” he told the Financial Times....
...In a matter of days, Disney boss Bob Iger and his team will begin a months-long process with Comcast to determine the value of the cable giant’s 33 per cent stake in streaming service Hulu....
...Comcast holds a 33 per cent stake, and the two companies agreed at the time that either could initiate a sale or purchase of all of Hulu at a minimum valuation of $27.5bn....
...In a rollercoaster interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday, Musk said that a recent exodus of big brands — which included IBM, Apple, Walt Disney, Comcast and...
International Edition