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August 6, 2026
Nielsen to Acquire DoubleVerify for $2.15 Billion in Bid to Augment Digital Measurement
Audience-measurement giant Nielsen said it would acquire the digital-media monitor DoubleVerify in an all-cash transaction that takes place as more media companies and advertisers are putting the c...
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August 6, 2026
Fox Appears to Block NFL’s Effort to Re-Do Massive Rights Deal
Did Lachlan Murdoch just tackle the NFL? The Fox CEO on Thursday surprised investors by announcing that Fox’s current deal with the National Football League would remain as is through its end after...
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August 6, 2026
Versant Sees Q2 Profit Fall on Revenue Declines, Despite Ad-Sales Improvements
Versant Media said second-quarter net income fell by 30% as the new media company continued its efforts to add non-traditional assets to lend ballast to its linear media operations. The owner of MS...
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August 6, 2026
Warner Bros. Discovery Q2 Profit Slumps on NBA Ads, Movie Schedule, Write-Downs
Warner Bros. Discovery has a great story to tell about its streaming business –if only its other operations didn’t get in the way. The parent of HBO, TNT and the Warner Bros. movie studio said net ...
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August 5, 2026
Disney Says Commercials for Super Bowl LXI Have Sold Out
Disney said it had sold out all its commercial inventory tied to its coming 2027 telecast of Super Bowl LXI, showing a remarkable push to a financial touchdown that seemed in danger of being blocke...
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August 5, 2026
Disney, TikTok Strike Content-Sharing Deal Aimed at Boosting Short-Form Programming on Disney+
Disney is going long on short-form content. The entertainment giant struck an alliance with TikTok that will have creators on the popular quick-hit video service making shorts tied to characters an...
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August 4, 2026
Paramount Q2 Profit Dips, With Streaming Boost Offset by TV Declines
Paramount Skydance said second-quarter profit fell, even as the company was boosted by its streaming media and studios operations, while its large TV division shed ad dollars and subscribers. David...
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August 3, 2026
Jimmy Fallon is Nearly Last Late-Night Host Standing Amid Summer Hiatus
And then there was Fallon. NBC’s “Tonight Show” is the only late-night program to keep on keeping on as usual as the nation moves into late summer, a sign of how the wee-hours format continues to b...
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August 3, 2026
CBS Bets Tony Dokoupil’s ‘Big Question’ Segment Makes Sizable Difference in Evening-News Battle
Tony Dokoupil’s job hinges on breaking news. He has recently been taking precious seconds to try and knit some of it together. On a recent Friday night, the “CBS Evening News” anchor stopped the ra...
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August 3, 2026
MS NOW Launches Peter Alexander’s ‘State of Play’ August 10
Peter Alexander carries his years of experience at NBC News over to MS NOW, where he lands next week. The veteran Washington correspondent and weekend “Today” host will launch a new 11 a.m. program...
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August 3, 2026
Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi Take Journalist-in-Residence Roles at Columbia University
The stopwatch keeps ticking after “60 Minutes.” Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley were both named journalists-in-residence at Columbia University’s School of Journalism Monday, a position that will b...
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July 31, 2026
Tony Romo on Leave at CBS Sports After DUI Arrest
Tony Romo may face a delay of game after being arrested in Milwaukee last week on suspicion of driving under the influence. CBS Sports said Friday that Romo, its star NFL analyst and a former Dalla...
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July 30, 2026
Christine Romans’ ‘Current’ to Debut August 3 on NBC News Now
NBC News hopes Christine Romans’ new program, “Current,” will add voltage to its streaming efforts. The show will debut August 3 on the live-streaming outlet NBC News Now, and run from 10 a.m. to n...
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July 29, 2026
ACLU, National Coalition Against Censorship and 20 Other Groups Line Up to Support Disney in Tangle With FCC
A consortium of 22 different advocacy organizations are lining up to support Walt Disney Co. as it continues to tangle with the Federal Communications Commission. “We urge you to continue to defend...
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July 29, 2026
Comcast Taps Social Media Reality Series to Tout Xfinity as Tool for Creators, Influencers (EXCLUSIVE)
MONTCLAIR, N.J. — Nothing seems amiss in this well-appointed home in a tony New York City suburb…except for the intriguing experiment taking place inside. Six college students who have cultivated t...
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July 29, 2026
YES, MSG Networks Will Move Streaming Sports to DAZN
The streaming rights to many of New York’s sports teams are traveling. MSG Networks and YES Network struck a new partnership that will make DAZN the exclusive direct-to-consumer streaming home of t...
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July 29, 2026
Fox, iSpot Aim to Deliver Faster Data Tying Ads to Business ‘Outcomes’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Advertisers are accustomed to getting quick info on how many people their commercials reach on TV day after day. Now Fox hopes to give them speedy data about something that many marketers consider ...
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July 28, 2026
Ross Douthat, Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni, Trevor Phillips to Join CBS’ ‘60 Minutes’
Ross Douthat, the conservative New York Times columnist, will join CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” along with author Sebastian Junger, new CBS News correspondent Trevor Phillips and filmmaker Gianna Toboni...
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July 23, 2026
Variety and CNN Expand Programming Partnership to Deliver Exclusive Awards Season Coverage
Variety and CNN are back in business for awards season. After producing Actors on Actors and a town hall with Timothée Chalamet and Matthew McConaughey, the two legacy brands have unveiled an expan...
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July 23, 2026
Disney, ESPN Lend ‘Toy Story’ Boost to Athletes Unlimited Softball League
When ABC this Saturday shows the first game in the annual championship series of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League, it will do so with a few special guests in tow. Woody and Jessie, the famous...
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July 22, 2026
World Cup May Be Over, but Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks Thinks Hydration Breaks Could Return
The World Cup wrapped over the weekend, but the TV industry may well be kicking it around for quite some time. Fox Sports lured massive crowds to the event even though “home teams” from the U.S. an...
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July 21, 2026
Zoom, With New Story, Bets on Indie Journalist to Tell It
Zoom has since the days of the coronavirus pandemic been known for its expertise in video. Now the company wants to demonstrate its talent for putting on a show. Starting this week, Zoom is launchi...
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July 21, 2026
Andrea Zapata Joins VideoAmp as SVP, Agency Partnerships
Andrea Zapata, a veteran of the rapidly changing fields of audience research and measurement, has joined VideoAmp, one of a bevy of upstart measurement-technology firms hoping to make inroads with ...
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July 20, 2026
Liberty Mutual’s New Commercial Character Offers Insurance Against Ad-Avoiding Consumers
What’s yellow, fluffy and has a name that’s likely to get stuck in your head? The insurance sector’s newest TV star. Liberty Mutual worked its way into consumers’ brains over the past decade with a...
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July 20, 2026
Fox’s Red Seat Ventures, Amazon Strike Programmatic Advertising Partnership
Fox Corp.’s Red Seat Ventures is the latest entity to strike up a partnership with Amazon in a bid to give advertisers broader reach in programmatic venues. Amazon will give advertisers the chance ...
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July 20, 2026
ESPN Plunges Back Into Shohei Ohtani Money Transfer Scandal With New Tisha Thompson Podcast
Tisha Thompson in 2024 broke news about one of the biggest and most surprising scandals in sports — the transfer of large sums of money from baseball great Shohei Otani’s bank account to illegal bo...
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July 17, 2026
Rob Lowe Strikes Marketing Partnership With Accredited Debt Relief
Rob Lowe may best be known for roles in the political series “The West Wing” and more recently, “9-1-1 Lone Star.” But his next job may be his most serious of them all. The actor will work with Acc...
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July 16, 2026
Beehiiv Bets New Suite of ‘Community’ Tools Will Forge Stronger Connection Between Creators, Subscribers
David Begnaud reaches thousands of people with newsletters and podcasts, all part of his new creator venture “Do Good Crew,” which highlights stories of kindness, generosity and inspiration. If onl...
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July 16, 2026
MS NOW Taps Brian Swarth as Senior Vice President of Marketing
Brian Swarth, a veteran of promoting series such as Showtime’s “Billions,” Audacy’s “Fly on the Wall with David Spade and Dana Carvey” and AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire,” will join MS NOW as it...
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July 16, 2026
NBC Sports Uses World Cup Fever to Spark Interest in Premier League Return
NBC Sports hopes to keep the nation’s summer of soccer alive, harnessing the interest in its World Cup telecasts on Telemundo and Peacock for its annual focus on Premier League play. NBC Sports and...
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