- A Comcast-WBD Deal: CNN As A Sister Network Of MSNBC?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 31, 2025
Legacy media companies want smaller, more aggressive business units - and ...
- HBO Max Raises Prices Amid Merger Talks
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 23, 2025
The announcement came a day after WBD said it would evaluate ...
- Drink Up, Linear TV: But Go Easy On Bubbles And The Sugar Rush
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 23, 2025
Linear TV, the thinking goes, will still be around - with f ...
- Media Landscape Is Changing At Breakneck Speed
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, October 23, 2025
So much is going on in the rapidly changing world of B ...
- WBD's Playground: Who Wants To Play - With What Media Toys?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Many would wonder why Netflix, the dominant premium streaming platform, would consid ...
- A Possible Versant-WBD Deal? FCC Can't Touch This, But...
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 17, 2025
A possible Versant-WBD deal has no broadcast license issues to consider ...
- Netflix's Peters On WBD Deal: What's The 'Track Record'?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 10, 2025
"One should have a reasonable amount of skepticism around big media merge ...
- Paramount-WBD Merger: Adding A TikTok Side Benefit?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 26, 2025
Should we be worried about CBS News being combined with CNN? N ...
- Disney, Fox See August Football Viewing Hikes
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Disney grew 2% to a 9.5% total day viewing share of a ...
- Paramount/WBD Deal: Digital-First Counteroffers?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 15, 2025
A bigger story is that the quick all-cash bid was rushed ...
- Tech-Sector Invader Seeks To Disrupt TV Industry
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Monday, September 15, 2025
Skydance's prospective takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery represents the arrival of ...
- Paramount Skydance Reportedly Mulling All-Cash Deal To Acquire WBD
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 11, 2025
WBD's stock price rocketed up 26% to $15.79 in midday Thursday tradin ...
- 'Last Rites' Conjures $83M Box-Office Opening
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 8, 2025
With only $9.1 million spent on national TV advertising, the film ...
- Linear, D2C Ads Take A 'Step Back'
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Total "normalized" ad revenue - which excludes seasonal/one-time events - for Fo ...
- MSNBC's Name Change: Will There Be Regrets?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 19, 2025
MS NOW stands for My Source New Opinion World. Will the n ...
- Warner Bros. Scores Another Big Opening With 'Weapons'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 11, 2025
It is the studio's seventh first-place opening this year and the six ...
- Something Bugs Me About WBD's 'Unmerger'
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, August 1, 2025
Changes come so quickly in the TV business these days that on ...
- Warner Bros. Discovery Names Post-Split Companies, Senior Execs
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 28, 2025
Warner Bros. will house its studios and streaming businesses including Warner Bro ...
- Universes Collide As Harry Potter, James Bond Enter TV Fray
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, July 15, 2025
The gods of Hollywood continue to create new universes with expansions in ...
- Netflix Sees Rapid Q2 Subscriber Gains
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 11, 2025
Netflix added 32 million gross global subscribers in Q2, while Walt Disney ...
- Big Cable TV Brands' Moves: HBO, Showtime Shift, Depart - And Return?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 26, 2025
Paramount will drop the "Showtime" name from its ad-free service - n ...
- The Right Sports TV Mix - Market Size, Storylines, Underdogs
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, June 25, 2025
The NBA Playoffs generated 31.4 billion viewing minutes for the month acro ...
- Roku/Amazon Ad Deal: Streaming Powerhouses Join Forces
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, June 16, 2025
The two big streaming businesses say the streaming ad-inventory integration will all ...
- Amazon Ads' Heroic 'Acts Of Kindness' Soars With 'Superman'
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Messaging and activations will span Amazon platforms, including Prime Video advertising f ...
- Dividing WBD In Two? Not Entirely, Analyst Says
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The proposed live, linear cable TV networks group WBD Global Networks wi ...
- WBD Slicing Away Cable Nets An Easier Split Than Comcast? Something Else?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
On the surface, and plainly, WBD keeps the good stuff - a ...
- Warner Bros. Discovery Split Is 2022 Merger In Reverse
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
WBD's decision to split itself into two separate companies represents a b ...
- WBD To Spin Off Cable Networks
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, June 9, 2025
The remaining WBD company will consist of Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bro ...
- YouTube Dominates April Nielsens, Gains 29% Year-Over-Year
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Disney, in second place, dropped 7% to 10.7% vs. 11.5% share ...
- HBO Max Rebranding Was Upfront Week's Best Story
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, May 16, 2025
It is as if streaming management at Warner Bros. Discovery suddenly slapp ...