Business

Nexstar closed its Tegna acquisition, creating a broadcast giant reaching ~80% of U.S. TV households and significantly increasing leverage in distribution, advertising, and local news. The deal matters because FCC waivers effectively loosen ownership caps, paving the way for more…

Warner Music Group struck a multiyear first-look documentary deal with Netflix, giving the streamer a repeatable pipeline of music films and series built around WMG artists, songwriters, and catalog rights. The agreement matters because it turns Warner’s music IP into…

Ampere Analysis finds HBO Max leads peers in bundle scale across partners, markets, and packages. Streaming growth is increasingly driven by distribution deals, with discounted wholesale pricing functioning as the core customer acquisition cost. As more growth comes through hard…

Tubi and TikTok are turning creator traction into a formal development pipeline for long-form AVOD programming. The Creatorverse Incubator gives Tubi a faster, lower-risk way to build scripted and unscripted shows around pre-validated creator IP, while TikTok adds both audience…

Basics of Streaming breaks down how connected TV is shifting advertising from a passive, reach-driven model into an interactive, performance-focused channel where viewers can take immediate action. Interactive and shoppable ad formats combine video delivery, real-time decisioning, UI overlays, and…

Nexstar and Tegna's proposed merger has sparked coordinated opposition from state attorneys general and DirecTV, who argue the deal would concentrate too much power over local broadcast stations, advertising, and retransmission negotiations. The fight centers on whether bigger station groups…

EverPass is taking over commercial distribution of NFL Sunday Ticket, ending DirecTV’s 30-year run and shifting bars into a centralized streaming-based system. The move consolidates access to fragmented sports rights across services like YouTube, Amazon, and Apple, but also concentrates…

From the Archives revisits HDHomeRun as an early hybrid model that turned free over-the-air broadcasts into IP-based streams across connected devices. It showed how local infrastructure could replicate core streaming behaviors like multi-device access and DVR without relying on licensing…

Comcast and Charter are deploying NVIDIA-powered GPU infrastructure at the edge of their networks, shifting AI inference closer to users and turning broadband footprints into distributed compute platforms. Comcast is focusing on monetizable services like real-time ad rendering, SMB AI…

Josh D’Amaro takes over as Disney CEO and immediately faces the core issue the strategy couldn’t answer on paper: whether the rest of the business can keep pace with a parks-led model. While Experiences continues to drive performance, streaming engagement,…