CBS and Viacom: The Long Road to Re-Merging the Redstone Empire
Shari Redstone’s push to reunite the two media giants culminates Tuesday after years of legal battles, lowball offers and executive turmoil
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Verizon Sells Tumblr to WordPress’ Parent Company
Automattic Inc. grabs blogging platform for fraction of what Yahoo paid for it a five years earlier
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Why Verizon Media’s RYOT Predicts 5G Will Revolutionize Animation
“It’s really going to democratize and allow people to do crazy cool animations without having the institutional knowledge,” Nigel Tierney, head of content at Verizon Media’s RYOT studios, says
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Sprint and T-Mobile’s $26 Billion Merger Approved by Justice Department
Telecom giants cover 80 million Americans combined
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Quibi: How Past Short-Form Video Fumbles May Signal Tough Road Ahead
“It’s going to be tough getting people’s attention on smartphones,” Colin Dixon, the chief analyst at nScreenMedia, says
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How Quibi CEO Meg Whitman Plans to Bring ‘Watercooler’ Shows to Mobile Video
“What I’m doing here reminds me of eBay in its earliest days. The consumer tech has changed a ton, but the fundamentals are the same around user experience and user interface,” Whitman tells TheWrap
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Dan Krauss Documentary ‘5B’ About the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Acquired by Verizon Media (Video)
Film tells story of the caregivers who built Ward 5B in 1983 at San Francisco General Hospital
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Complex Networks Partners With Viacom’s Pluto TV on 24/7 Channel (Exclusive)
Complex’s content will be available on-demand and through its own 24/7 channel on Pluto TV
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RYOT’s Head of Immersive Jake Sally on the Challenges of Storytelling in Virtual Reality
5 Questions: “The idea of free choice in VR is particularly tricky, because it’s never really your choice is it?,” Sally says
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Verizon Follows Comcast in Dropping Jennifer Lopez’s Fuse Media Network
The network criticized Comcast and Verizon for not being committed to diverse programming
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Disney-Verizon Blackout Avoided as New Carriage Deal Is Reached
ESPN and ABC viewers who subscribe to Verizon’s FiOS service would have been among those impacted
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Verizon Takes $4.6 Billion Write Down on Oath
Failed AOL-Yahoo joint venture sees its value slashed to about $200 million — after Verizon paid $9 billion for both companies
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How to Watch or Live Stream Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (Video)
TheWrap’s got your back, balloon lovers
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How to Watch Chiefs-Rams on ‘Monday Night Football’ for Free
Here’s an NFL viewing guide for cord-cutters and cord-nevers
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How Media Companies Can Ride the Wave of Global Video Growth (Guest Column)
…by tapping into the benefit of content without borders
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Verizon Beats Q3 Earnings Estimates Despite Oath’s Limp Performance
Oath revenue drops 7 percent year-over-year as AOL-Yahoo joint venture continues to lag
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Here’s a Fall 2018 Playbook for TV Marketers
Oath’s Matt Young has some advice for TV marketers
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Facebook Watch Has a Big Consumer Awareness Problem
Publishers who spoke with TheWrap’s VideoInk are losing faith that users are “Watch’ing”
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President Trump Will Send You a Text Today, Whether You Want It or Not
A new emergency text system will be tested by POTUS on Wednesday
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How to Watch Sunday’s Saints-Falcons NFL Game Online for Free
NFL viewing guide for cord-cutters and cord-nevers
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Verizon Lays Off 50 in Video Business Consolidation (Exclusive)
Company also laid off 150 employees last year
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Oath CEO Tim Armstrong Stepping Down Next Month
Chief operating officer K. Guru Gowrappan will take over the joint AOL-Yahoo venture
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Verizon Media Chief Tim Armstrong In Talks to Leave Company
Exec has been in charge of Oath, the joint AOL-Yahoo venture
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Viacom Acquires AwesomenessTV
Awesomeness CEO Jordan Levin will leave the company after a transition period
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Go90 Failure Just Cost Verizon $658 Million
That’s on top of the several hundred million dollars sunk into shuttered streaming service
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Mitú Shakeup: Founder Beatriz Acevedo, CEO Herb Scannell Out at Latino Network
They will stay on as advisors, investor Mark Suster tells TheWrap
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Verizon Shutters Go90 After Betting Hundreds of Millions on Short-Form Video
Service shuts down after launching in 2015
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Shari Redstone v. Les Moonves: A Timeline of the Battle for CBS
Two years of sparring culminates with a tumultuous month of courtroom battles — with more drama to come
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Will CBS’ Latest Attempt to Stop Shari Redstone Hold up in Court?
Network’s vote to dilute Redstone’s controlling interest probably won’t stick, legal expert tells TheWrap
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Senate Votes to Block FCC’s Repeal of Net Neutrality
Legislative battle now moves to the House of Representatives
