Prime Video Australia has struck multi-year pay-1 window streaming deals with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Roadshow Films for their major global and local films. The agreements, which began in August, means Prime Video is the exclusive streaming home to the likes of SPE’s 28 Years Later and Roadshow’s In the Grey. From SPE are including Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later, Karate Kid: Legends, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Australian horror Bring Her Back, upcoming crime Caught Stealing an ...

Group 1 - YouTube's first global live stream of an NFL game attracted an audience of 17.3 million, with 1.1 million viewers from outside the U.S. [1] - The average minute audience for the game was lower than typical domestic NFL broadcasts, but it marked a significant milestone for both the NFL and YouTube as it was the first game available for free to a worldwide online audience [1][2] - The NFL has been increasing its international game schedule, with speculation about potentially awarding a franchise to a non-U.S. city [3] Group 2 - YouTube has partnered with the NFL since 2023 to distribute its Sunday Ticket streaming package, enhancing its integration of league content into its creator community [4] - The broadcast included popular YouTube personalities and new content from creators, showcasing a blend of traditional sports broadcasting with digital content creators [5] - The halftime show featured Colombian pop star Karol G, further integrating entertainment with the sports event [5]

Paramount has tapped Kenneth R. Weinstein, former president and CEO of the Hudson Institute, to serve as ombudsman for CBS News. Skydance committed to hiring an ombudsman as it sought FCC regulatory approval of its acquisition of Paramount. He’ll report to Jeff Shell, president of Paramount. Per Paramount, under the ombudsman process, Weinstein will take complaints from consumers, employees and others. He will review them and, if they require action, will raise it to Shell and George Cheeks, chair of TV Me ...

The U.S. added 22,000 jobs in August, with unemployment rising slightly to 4.3%, in the latest sign of a slowing economy. The numbers, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, have taken on new scrutiny after President Donald Trump fired the head of the agency following July’s lackluster jobs report, even as economists warned that the move was a step toward politicizing the statistics gathering of the federal government. The latest jobs figures were lower than a number of economists expected. As is typical, th ...

Media moguls and frequent business collaborators John Malone and Barry Diller spent part of Thursday’s panel session at the Paley Center for Media recalling the one that got away: Paramount Pictures. During a luncheon session that also featured Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and former Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, Malone touched on a lot of the material in his new book. Born to Be Wired: Lessons from a Lifetime Transforming Television, Wiring America for the Internet, and Growing Formula One, Di ...

Warner Bros. Discovery is the latest legacy media company to challenge the use of its content in generative AI, filing suit against Midjourney, claiming that the company is engaged in the “theft” of its intellectual property. With the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday, WBD is joining The Walt Disney Co. and NBCUniversal in challenging Midjourney’s use of their content. WBD’s attorneys wrote in the lawsuit, “Midjourney thinks it is above the law. It sells a commercial subscrip ...

Nexstar, the CW owner and giant broadcaster that’s angling to get even bigger, said it’s made a home in local media because that’s a lucrative place to be.   “Everybody’s focused on networks and streaming and top down and national media. The local media space, which has been ignored, is one we’ve chosen to build a dominant position in, and it’s that last mile connection with both the viewer and the advertiser that I say is the least sexy, most sticky part of the media ecosystem,” Sook told investors at the ...

With Comcast on track to spin off Versant by year end, CFO Jason Armstrong said more details of the standalone linear network company are coming soon and the new entity will enter the world solid and with “lots of options.” Comcast and all traditional media companies faced a choice amid cable’s inexorable decline as subscribers dwindle but the business still throws off cash. “Either they are cash generating and permanently in support of the existing growth businesses, or they are separable,” Armstrong posi ...

Truth Social parent Trump Media & Technology Group has partnered with a SPAC called Yorkville Acquisition Corp. and Crypto.com to launch Trump Media Group CRO Strategy, a digital asset treasury company focused on the cryptocurrency CRO. The deal calls for Trump Media to purchase about $105 million in CRO – the token of the Cronos ecosystem – repping about 2% of the total CRO market cap as of announcement, for its balance sheet. Crypto.com will purchase $50 million in shares of common stock in Trump Media. ...

This is the first price hike for Apple TV+ since a previous $3 increase in October of 2023. Apple TV+ is hiking the monthly price of its service to $12.99 from $9.99 effective today for new customers. Existing subscribers will be topped off in their next renewal. The streamer, home to original series The Morning Show, Ted Lasso, Slow Horses and Severance – the latter recently nabbing an impressive 23 Emmy nominations — is the only major service to eschew an advertising- supported option. Its annual rate of ...