Christmas Day NFL games came on a Wednesday. Increasingly, these non-traditional NFL playing days have become an issue.

Sports is here to stay, taking on a bigger role for networks and streamers alike - and competition for those airing rights will only get harder.

A new Pew Research Center report finds 54% of Americans turn to YouTube occasionally to get news content, while 25% get their news regularly from YouTube.

Possible merger combinations include obvious names like Comcast Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global and Fox Corp. Perhaps not too suspiciously, Walt Disney has been left off the list.

Unscripted TV has seen sharply slower development among TV networks and streamers since the actors' and writers' strikes of a year ago.

NBA games on ABC, ESPN, and TNT are down 19% so far this season to average 1.4 million viewers.

"Smaller and more profitable has been the message, and we would be surprised if Paramount did not ultimately benefit from this new potential cable aggregation market under a friendlier FCC."

Many big-budget, fantasy, action-adventure and animated movies and franchises including "Wicked," "Moana" and "Gladiator" will continue to pull crowds into theaters - young people, especially.

A federal judge has denied a bid by Disney, Fox Corp. and WBD to dismiss a lawsuit by virtual pay TV platform Fubo, that intends to prevent Venu Sports from operating.

Disney's Deborah Armstrong says "too much money is not coming to TV and it's going elsewhere" - adding that "the pie is flat."