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Paramount-WBD Deal Architect Gerry Cardinale Says Most Of $6B In Expected Cost Savings Will Not Be Layoffs
Gerry Cardinale, Paramount board member and principal architect of the company’s imminent merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, insists that most of the deal’s cost savings will not come from layoffs.
The company has promised investors it will deliver $6 billion in cost savings from the $110…
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David Ellison’s “Coziness” With Donald Trump Is “Way Overstated”, Per Paramount Backer Gerry Cardinale
Gerry Cardinale, Paramount board member, investor and key architect of its pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, says the notion that CEO David Ellison is tight with Donald Trump has been “way overstated.”
“Forget about where you are on the political spectrum,” Cardinale said at the…
Starz Goes Dark On Verizon FiOS Amid Carriage Dispute; Verizon Responds
UPDATED with Verizon statement: Starz on Wednesday warned of the potential loss of all of its channels, Starz on Demand and the Starz app through Verizon FiOs amid negotiations with Verizon on a distribution agreement. Now, the company says those channels have gone dark.
“Since an agreement was…
Ynon Kreiz, Newly Minted Co-CEO Of Paramount, To Get Pay Bump After WBD Merger Close, $31.5M Signing Bonus
Ynon Kreiz, who was tapped Wednesday as Co-CEO of the soon-to-merge Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, will collect a $31.5 million signing bonus and at least $35.1 million a year in total compensation by 2027.
In an SEC filing Thursday, Paramount laid out terms of the former Mattel CEO’s…
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Hearst Renews CBS Weekend Series ‘The Visioneers With Zay Harding’ Through 2028
Hearst Media Production Group has renewed CBS weekend educational series The Visioneers with Zay Harding for two more seasons, through 2028.
The show was first announced by Hearst in March 2025.
Season 3 of the 30-minute eco-adventure original, which is produced by the Hearst production…
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Ynon Kreiz Anointed Co-CEO Of New Paramount-WBD; David Ellison Says Mega-Studio Is “Transformational Moment For Our Industry”
Mere minutes after a federal judge signed off Wednesday on the antitrust settlement deal between Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery and a dozen blue state attorneys general, David Ellison has named Ynon Kreiz co-CEO of his soon-to-expand media giant.
In a statement, Paramount said the former…
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Ex-Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz In Line For High-Level Paramount Exec Post
Former Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz has talked with Paramount CEO David Ellison about taking on a senior executive role, sources familiar with the discussions tell Deadline.
Mattel announced Wednesday morning that Kreiz was stepping down after a succession process, with former Condé Nast CEO Roger…
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Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch Jumps To Top Job At Mattel, Succeeding Ynon Kreiz
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch has stepped down in order to take the top job at Mattel.
Ynon Kreiz, who steered the toymaker through its Barbie movie breakthrough, is poised to take “a senior leadership position at another public company,” an announcement by Mattel said Wednesday.
Lynch, whose…
Disney Hit By Layoffs, A Couple Hundred Workers Cut
EXCLUSIVE: Disney has initiated layoffs as it continues to tighten its belt under recently appointed CEO Josh D’Amaro. Today’s cuts are said to impact a couple of hundred employees, largely in areas such as tech and HR, which is a smaller number than the two previous rounds of layoffs earlier this…
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Broadcast To Hit A Double, Peacock Going Deep In NBC Sports Coverage Of MLB Wild Card Playoffs
Sports fans of a certain age can readily recall NBC’s coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs regularly pre-empting the network’s “Must-See TV” primetime lineup in the 1990s.
While the ratings and programming landscape has changed dramatically over the intervening decades, this year’s…
Paramount To Move Its Class B Shares From Nasdaq To New York Stock Exchange In Early October
Paramount said Friday it plans to start moving the listing of its Class B shares from the Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange in early October.
Noting the still-pending $110 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery as a key variable, the company said in an SEC filing that the date of the…
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Shares In Barry Diller’s People Inc. Surge On Report Of Role-Reversal Acquisition Bid From MGM Resorts
Shares in Barry Diller’s People Inc. surged 9% in early trading Friday after a report of an unusual role-reversal acquisition bid from MGM Resorts.
Earlier this week, People said it was dropping its $18 billion plan to acquire full control of MGM Resorts, in which it already holds a 27% stake…
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