Marie Donoghue, the VP of global sports video at Amazon’s Prime Video, is leaving the company. Donoghue informed her staff on Thursday with a farewell email. Prime Video just concluded its second season as the home of the NFL’s Thursday Night Football package. Donoghue reported to Jay Marine, who heads the company’s sports division. Amazon confirmed Donoghue’s exit to the media, but provided no further comment. Donoghue joined Amazon in 2018 as VP of global sports video for Prime Video and spearheaded th ...

Top U.S. cable operator Comcast has reached a carriage renewal with Paramount Global, averting a potential blackout of service around the New Year’s holiday. The deal, confirmed to Deadline by a Paramount spokesperson, comes before the expiration of the current pact at the end of the year. In January 2022, Paramount (then known as ViacomCBS) and Comcast announced a “multi-year” carriage renewal. Talks proceeded quietly in recent days, without any of the consumer-facing warnings about looming deadlines that ...

A consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion in damages over allegations Google tracked users who thought they were browsing the internet privately has been settled. No terms have been disclosed. The”incognito” mode on Google’s Chrome browser still followed users, as emails revealed during the trial proved. The data was used to sell ads. The judge in the case confirmed a preliminary agreement to settle the class action lawsuit, originally filed in 2020. Lawyers were seeking at least $5,000 for ...

James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley and soon to be a member of Disney‘s board of directors, is not fazed by the possibility of the media giant going through a proxy fight. During a lengthy sit-down with CNBC, the exec acknowledged that a battle is brewing with activist investor Nelson Peltz, whose investment firm nominated him along with ex-Disney CFO James Rasulo for board seats. The duo are co-ordinating their efforts with Ike Perlmutter, the former head of Marvel. Disney said a board committee will cons ...