Upon closing of Paramount Global and Skydance Media’s $8 billion merger, Oracle co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison will hold a minority voting interest of approximately 35.5% in the combined company. When Skydance first submitted its broadcast license transfer application to the FCC in September, the initial filing stated that the Skydance investor consortium would hold…
EXCLUSIVE: The White House went on the offensive Thursday morning as an irate Donald Trump fumes over last night’s South Park Season 27 premiere that depicted him as a Satan-canoodling and less than well-endowed pompous bully, to put it mildly. “The President is seething over the childish attack by South Park,” an administration source tells…
South Park returned to television on Wednesday after a nearly two-and-a-half-year hiatus, kicking its 27th season off with a hilarious and, as expected, controversial premiere, where the show took on President Donald Trump, showing a depiction of him in bed with series regular, Satan. Government censorship, the death of wokeness, ChatGPT, and religion in the nation’s…
Examining the decision to end “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS announced Thursday that it was ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in 2026 and would also be sunsetting “The Late Show” franchise, calling it “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night.” Jim…
Paramount Global has agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to end his lawsuit over edits to a “60 Minutes” interview — a legal tussle that roiled CBS News, spurred high-level departures and threatened to derail the company’s hoped-for sale. Under the terms of the deal, the money will be allocated to Trump’s future presidential…
With a rifle in her hands, Helen Mirren brings steely determination to her role as Cara Dutton in “1923,” the latest chapter of Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” saga that continues to break viewership records. The second season premiere drew more than 5.4 million viewers — the biggest original premiere in Paramount+ history. The series transports viewers back…
Paramount-owned channels including CBS, Comedy Central and MTV are set to go dark on YouTube TV Thursday night if a contract renewal agreement is not reached, both companies say. “The contract Paramount has with Google’s YouTube TV to carry CBS, Nickelodeon and 21 other networks is about to expire,” Paramount stated on a webpage devoted…
For years, the world’s biggest media companies struggled to make money off of their streaming services. The culprits: pricey content, user churn, and lots of competition. In 2024, that finally changed. The five giants — Netflix (NFLX), Disney (DIS), Paramount (PARA), NBCUniversal’s Peacock (CMCSA), and Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max (WBD) — collectively reported a profit…