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2025 Podcast Winners: How the Audio Medium Embraced Video, Enticed Streamers and Engaged Billions
YouTube surpassed 1 billion monthly active podcast viewers in 2025 while SiriusXM overtook Spotify and iHeart as the top podcasting network
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Trump-Hosted Kennedy Center Honors Ratings Sink to Ceremony’s Lowest With 3.01 Million Viewers
Following the president’s takeover and renaming of the Kennedy Center, viewership for the once-prestigious event fell lower than its 2021 COVID-restricted ceremony
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Isiah Whitlock Jr., ‘The Wire’ Actor and Longtime Spike Lee Collaborator, Dies at 71
Whitlock appeared in six Spike Lee joints, including “BlacKkKlansman” and “Da 5 Bloods”
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Warner Bros. Plans to Reject Paramount’s Latest Bid Despite Larry Ellison’s ‘Irrevocable Personal Guarantee’
Paramount adjusted its hostile takeover bid last week to reassure shareholders of its financing and raise its breakup fee to $5.8 billion
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‘Stranger Things 5’ Scores 34.5 Million Views After Volume 2 Release, Helps Drive Netflix’s Biggest Christmas Day Ever
The ratings milestone comes as the tentpole series gears up for its grand finale on New Year’s Eve
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Tatiana Schlossberg, Writer and Granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, Dies at 35
She disclosed her terminal cancer diagnosis in November in a poignant essay for The New Yorker
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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Sets $2.5 Million Broadway Record as Season 5 Hits Netflix
The nine-performance record at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre was surpassed over Christmas week with a gross of $2,510,948
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The Biggest Business Blunders in Media and Entertainment in 2025
From putting Jimmy Kimmel on ice to rolling back DEI to a clueless investor pitch at the LA Times, there was no shortage this past year of baffling corporate moves
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2025 Ratings Winners: 13 Shows and Movies That Ruled Broadcast and Streaming This Year
From Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters” standout viewership record to ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” Gen Z resurgence
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Chappell Roan Walks Back Brigitte Bardot Tribute After Getting Schooled on Her Politics: ‘I Do Not Condone This’
The French film star died at the age of 91 on Sunday
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Beyoncé Becomes 5th Musician to Reach Billionaire Status
The singer-songwriter joins her husband Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Rihanna in the elite group
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Melanie Watson, ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ Actress, Dies at 57
After retiring from acting, she became a dedicated disability advocate
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Entertainment and Media Layoffs Up 18% With Over 17,000 Jobs Slashed in 2025
A wave of consolidation, AI-driven change and cost-cutting pushed entertainment and media layoffs sharply higher in 2025
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How 2025 Rewrote Hollywood’s Playbook for Leaner Scripted Shows | Analysis
A new normal for scripted programming comes into focus as the industry says goodbye to yesterday’s big-budgeted hits, and braces for further consolidation
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Media and Entertainment’s Biggest Innovations of 2025
Artificial intelligence brought evolution to the entertainment industry in 2025, but that’s not all that changed this year
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