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WBD and Sling Quietly Drop Litigation

Warner Bros. Discovery and Dish have discontinued their litigation against each other over Sling TV ’s flexible streaming passes. With no one really noticing, the two filed a stipulation of voluntary

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Sofia the First Gets a Second Act

“Sofia the First” creator Craig Gerber knew it was time to revive his preschool series when he started seeing the theme song and other original numbers from the series go viral every so often.

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Canela Media Turns to AI to Scale Hispanic Content

Canela Media is pulling 62 million monthly active users and 6 million social followers, while pushing into new territory by using AI to create microseries and dub content at scale.

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Lawsuit Blocking Nexstar-Tegna Gets Help

The lawsuit standing in the way of Nexstar and Tegna’s $6.2 billion merger has been led by DirecTV and eight state attorneys general, who each hail from Democratic states. Late Thursday, that group received reinforcements.

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Carr: Early ABC License Renewals Not Tied to Kimmel

FCC monthly meetings are often focused on something that isn’t on the agenda. April was no different.

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Kimmel, Disney Back on the Hot Seat

It feels like September again with Jimmy Kimmel back in the news facing attacks from President Trump and other federal leaders. But the tensions feel a bit higher this time around.

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John Malone on WBD-PSKY Merger

John Malone joined a Syndeo Institute event and dished all about the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger and the negotiations that led to PSKY CEO David Ellison stealing the bride from Netflix in February.

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Is Streaming Too Focused on Latency?

For years, the difference between streaming and broadcast TV was a wide latency gap. That discrepancy has since shrunk, but some wonder whether there’s a huge business need to further reduce latency.

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ESPN’s WrestleMania Plan Marks a Linear TV First

WrestleMania 42 isn’t just the first to be exclusive to ESPN platforms but also the first time part of the main card has aired live on linear television.

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