Business
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Disney Cuts Hundreds of Jobs Across TV, Film, Corporate Finance and More in Latest Round of Layoffs
This marks the fourth and largest staff reduction at the media conglomerate’s TV operations in the last year
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TelevisaUnivision US Ad Sales President Donna Speciale Steps Down
She will be replaced by Tim Natividad, who will assume the role starting June 9
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Allen Media Group Hires Moelis to Explore Sale of TV Stations
Byron Allen’s media company has 28 owned and operated ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX affiliate television stations in 21 U.S. markets
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Hallmark Media Sets John Matts as President, Jessica Tasler Noble as CCO
Outgoing chief culture officer Sabrina Wiewel will become executive vice president of Crayola Studios
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Producers Open Up on Tech’s Takeover of Hollywood – and Its ‘Dictatorial’ Approach to Budgets
Scott Free’s David W. Zucker lamented that the relationship between producers and studio execs has become “grossly imbalanced”
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California Senate Launches Paramount-Trump Settlement Talks Investigation, Invites Bill Owens and Wendy McMahon to Testify
The lawmakers argue settling the $20 billion lawsuit to clear regulatory approval of the pending $8 billion Skydance merger could violate federal anti-bribery laws and the state’s unfair competition law
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National Legal and Policy Center Proposes Replacing Comcast’s Brian Roberts With Independent Chairman
The conservative lobbying firm argues his dual role as CEO and chairman gives him an “inordinate amount of insufficiently checked power”
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Starz Posts Widened $136 Million Operating Loss, 6% Revenue Decline in First Report After Lionsgate Split
The results for its fourth quarter of 2025 included a $177 million restructuring charge, primarily from reassessing its content portfolio
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OpenAI Says Studio Deals Have Stalled in Hollywood
COO Brad Lightcap says OpenAI’s tools are not “good enough” for professional filmmakers yet
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Trump Lawyers Claim He Suffered ‘Mental Anguish and Confusion’ From ‘60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview
The president’s attorneys say the interview at the heart of the lawsuit is not protected by the First Amendment
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Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video Claim 92% of Streaming Sports Programming
The three streamers, along with Apple TV+ and Paramount+, saw TV, movie and sports programming grow 5% in the second quarter of 2025, with the latter category up 7.8%, per Nielsen’s Gracenote
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CAA Taps Brent Weinstein to Oversee Digital Media, Podcast and Games Businesses
The executive will also lead the talent business ventures and speakers divisions and be involved in the agency’s M&A and investment activities
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Reed Hastings Joins Anthropic Board of Directors
In addition to serving as Netflix’s board chairman, the executive has been a member of the boards of Facebook and Microsoft
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Shout! Studios Promotes Rashad Qasem to Vice President of Content Licensing and Strategy | Exclusive
The executive previously served as associate vice president, content licensing and strategy
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CNN COO David Leavy Pivots Back to Role at Warner Bros. Discovery
His move back to WBD will reunite him with boss David Zaslav, whom he served for years before joining the cable channel
