- News Orgs Ask Judge To Preserve White House Access
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 7, 2026
CNN, Politico and MS NOW said in a new court filing th ...
- The Blame Game
Planning & Buying Insider, Ed Papazian - Monday, October 5, 2026
Many factors seem to have impelled the massive surge in streaming activi ...
- Under Skydance: Moving Beyond CBS, CNN
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Skydance has confirmed that CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss a ...
- Court Approves Paramount-WBD Merger
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 30, 2026
A federal judge entered an order allowing Paramount Skydance to complete i ...
- Paramount Settles: Can It Operate With Many Long-Term Restraints?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Can the company hold on with these restrictions for five years? A ...
- Production Outlook: Broadcast 'Resilient' Vs. Streaming, Cable
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 10, 2026
From 2022-25, U.S.-produced linear "orders" fell 26% to 1,304 per year fr ...
- Networks Ramp Up New-Season Promos
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 1, 2026
CBS/Paramount+ on-air messaging drove 3.6 billion impressions the last two weeks ...
- Cable-Streaming Costs: A Necessity? But With Options
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 31, 2026
The survey, from doxoINSIGHTS, shows high-profile comparisons between the two, offering ...
- Funding Democracy Unfiltered, CSPAN Taps First Chief Development Officer
TVBlog, Joe Mandese - Thursday, August 27, 2026
A 15-year nonprofit vet, Adele Hixon-Day joins from the Smithsonian and wi ...
- For Heaven's Sake, Get This Deal Done Already
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Statements from California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the man leading the lawsui ...
- What's Anti-Competitive - And Not - In Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 24, 2026
California AG Rob Bonta explains why the suit focuses only on certa ...
- Trad Pay TV Declines Again -- But At Moderate 4.1% Drop
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 19, 2026
But overall consumer spending on all video -- pay TV, streaming, oth ...
- Executives Predict State Of TV In 2029 In CNBC Survey
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 17, 2026
The television industry is in turmoil, with the rapid pace of change keepi ...
- Paramount Mulls CNN Edit Board To Address Post-Merger Concerns
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Paramount, which has a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $ ...
- Prime-Time Upfront Ad Sales Rise 9% To $33.7B, CPMs Fall 6%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Streaming rocketed 30% to $17.2 billion from the year before, with cab ...
- Streaming, FAST, Content Deals: What's Left For Indie Cable Groups?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 6, 2026
Disney-Hearst's $1.2 billion deal begs the question: what is next for A+ ...
- Video Podcasts: Media Buyers Talking Up More Edgy Chat?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Where are the budget shifts coming from for video podcasts? Most likel ...
- Disney Selling 50% A+E Stake To Hearst For More Than $1B
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 31, 2026
The midsized cable TV network group, including A&E Network, History Channel, Lifetim ...
- MS Now, CNN, NewsNation Viewing Up In July
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Collectively, viewership for the top five cable news networks was up 1 ...
- Has Charter Finally Dialed What's Left Of Legacy Pay TV?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Is Charter - as well as other legacy cable and satellite p ...
- Unpacking The Lawsuits Opposing Paramount-WBD Merger
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, July 29, 2026
It is difficult to see how this merger will leave consumers wi ...
- Measurement Has Become Data Buffet And Marketers Need To Stop Grabbing Everything
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Before advertisers and media buyers obsess over outcomes, they need to a ...
- Trump's WHCA Speech: Shout-Out To Ellison And So Much More
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Like driving by a car accident, it was difficult to look aw ...
- Judge Puts Brakes On Paramount-WBD Merger
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 20, 2026
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Paramount from completing its $1 ...
- Selloffs Could Help WBD-Paramount To Overcome Lawsuit: Analyst
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 15, 2026
A Paramount-WBD merger will have an overall 28.5% share, in terms ...
- States Sue To Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 13, 2026
The merger "would extinguish competition between Paramount and Warner Bros. and infli ...
- Media Thumbs Down: Big, Diverse Communications, Content Mergers Are Over
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Big "vertical," synergistic-seeking media mergers are officially no longer a thing n ...
- Comcast Splitting Again, Will Spin NBCU Into Its Own Public Company
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, June 29, 2026
The move comes less than a year after splitting NBCU into t ...
- Splitting Comcast, NBCU: Advertising Implications?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, June 29, 2026
Can global ad-tech company Freewheel invest and grow more rapidly without NB ...
- America's Great Streaming Shuffle Continues, And Cable Somehow Refuses To Die
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Thursday, June 25, 2026
Millions of people connect their TVs to the internet, but cable a ...