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Paramount Global on Thursday took a $6 billion write-down on its cable TV business, the day after Warner Bros. Discovery did the same for $9 billion. Why it matters: Both companies are struggling to convince Wall Street that their streaming bets will make up for those losses. Paramount Global's stock...

Cable TV biz crumbles

Welcome back to another extended edition of the Hot Mic Newsletter, GOLF’s weekly send covering all things golf media from me, James Colgan. The topic of this week’s newsletter is Phil Mickelson’s comments about LIV’s TV rights negotiations. As always, if you’d like to be the first to receive exclusive insights like these directly from me, click the link here to subscribe to our free newsletter send. But first, we go back to Troon, where something is … brewing.

Phil Mickelson addresses LIV TV ‘negotiations’ as CW rights dwindle

The Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox Sports have so far invested $400 million each in their highly anticipated sports streaming joint venture Venu, according to Fox Corp. COO John Nallen’s testimony Wednesday at a preliminary injunction hearing in FuboTV’s lawsuit against the three companies. Nallen...

Disney, Fox, WBD Invested $400 Million Each in Sports Bundle Venu

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	It was early February 2004 and barely a week into my tenure as editor in chief of Broadcasting & Cable when I first got to see the power of the venerable trade publication in action. Word had surfaced that Comcast was making a hostile $51 billion bid to acquire Disney, and only minutes later, it was B&C’s star reporter John Higgins who had a direct line to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and his lieutenants as they crisscrossed the country on the corporate jet to rally support from the financial community.How Paramount's First Big Sale Spurred a New Hollywood Era in...

As Broadcasting & Cable Goes Dark, a Former Editor In Chief Reflects on the 93-Year Legacy of Magazine

A soft advertising market continues to weigh on Nexstar Media Group, with the largest independent broadcast or major network affiliates reporting $522 million in advertising revenue during the second financial quarter (Q2) of the year. Total advertising revenue was up just 2.2 percent compared to Q2 2023, buoyed in part...

Nexstar narrows losses at CW Network during Q2

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The public builds a special relationship with popular news anchors. Even though we don't know them personally, they become trusted faces that we let into our homes via our TV screens on a daily basis. We rely on these journalists to deliver the hardest of news, from the 9/11 attacks to devastating natural disasters. It's a huge responsibility, and they work incredibly hard to get to that coveted primetime TV spot. Susan Hendricks is one of them. The HLN and CNN anchor has been in the business for decades and has come close to some of the worst crimes in America.

Here's What Happened To News Anchor Susan Hendricks

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Actor Buddy Ebsen, who died at age 95 in 2003, found fame by starring in two of the most popular classic television shows in history: The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962 to 1971) and Barnaby Jones (CBS, 1973 to 1980). On the Hillbillies, he played former Tennessee country mountain-folk-turned-wealthy Beverly Hills resident Jed Clampett. On Barnaby Jones, he was one of TV's most senior, slyest, health-conscious detectives. Ebsen, however, almost became even more famous for a certain big-screen classic film in which he ultimately did not appear.

'Beverly Hillbillies" Actor Buddy Ebsen Was "Bitter" about not playing the Tin Man in 'Wizard of Oz'

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Big Brother 26 contestant Angela Murray is already someone fans love to hate. However, several internet sleuths seemed to think that Angela looked familiar. In fact, she’s appeared in several other CBS productions. Could she be a network plant? Here’s everything we know about Angela Murray. Angela Murray...

‘Big Brother’ Is Angela Murray A CBS Plant?

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Some reality TV drama is so ridiculous and juicy that many believe it just has to be fake in some way. Over the years, Big Brother fans have accused the long-running CBS reality competition show of creating dramatic moments and storylines with producer plants, or people added to the cast to purposely create drama. And in Season 26, some believe that houseguest Angela Murray is a producer plant.But why do they think this, and what have the other houseguests said? The drama all started on the live feeds when Angela accused fellow player Matt Hardeman of conspiring against her and...

Angela Murray Was on Television Before She Became a 'Big Brother 26' Houseguest

[Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes and commentary from Donna Douglas are from an interview with her conducted by the author.]. Donna Douglas, who died of pancreative cancer at 82 in 2015, was an honest-to-goodness Southern Belle who displayed a natural beauty and talent in her portrayal of the hollering, rope-wearing, whistle-happy, and critter-cuddling Elly May Clampett on the 1960s classic TV hit, The Beverly Hillbillies.

TV's Beloved 'Beverly Hillbillies' Actress Donna Douglas: Nine Years After Her Death

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Electronics manufacturer Vizio grew the number of customers using its SmartCast streaming television platform to 18.8 million during the second financial quarter (Q2) of the year. The number represents an addition of 200,000 SmartCast users who purchased or activated a Vizio smart TV set during the three-month period that ended...

Vizio adds 200,000 more smart TV users during Q2

Los Angeles, CA

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Last month, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) released video footage that shows a veteran LAPD officer chasing a young man through a Pacoima housing project before fatally shooting him in the back as he ran away.

20-Year-Old Fatally Shot in The Back By LAPD Officer in Pacoima Projects

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Snoop Dogg has been serving as an NBC “special correspondent” at the Paris Olympics, and his alleged compensation package is making waves. Newsweek reports that […]

Is Snoop Dogg Really Earning $500K a Day as an NBC Paris Olympics Correspondent?

Bassett Vance Productions is working on a new drama series for NBC and Universal TV titled Keats , executive produced by Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance. Keats follows Alex Keats, a fourth-generation police officer returning to Philadelphia to bury her mother, a decorated officer who supposedly died by suicide.

Angela Bassett & Courtney B. Vance Are Producing a New Drama for NBC

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Before becoming a household name on the ABC sitcom "Home Improvement," Tim Allen faced significant legal issues and even spent time in prison.

The Real-Life Legal Issues Of Tim Allen, Explained

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Los Angeles County, CA

It's been 21 years since actress/singer Nell Carter, best known for the 1980s NBC sitcom, Gimme a Break!, died of natural causes at only 54. This is her story. Nell Carter was born September 13, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama. After initially finding fame on and off-Broadway, and via a brief role in 1977 on the TV datime drama, Ryan's Hope, Carter took the lead in Ain't Misbehavin'!, a live stage revue of the works of composer Fats Waller.

The Brief Life & Tragic Death of Nell Carter ('Gimme A Break' & 'Ain't Misbehavin'): 21 Years Later

Denver, CO

More dangerous substances are entering the Denver drug supply, Harm Reduction Action Center warned in a newsletter this week. “The Iron Law of Prohibition posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases,” HRAC Executive Director Lisa Raville wrote in the newsletter. That is exactly what is happening, she said.

Dangerous substances entering Denver drug supply

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Jacksonville, FL

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Three men and a woman have been arrested on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Charles Jones , a Jacksonville rapper known as Julio Foolio,” outside a hotel in Tampa.

4 arrested in slaying of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio

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A Conversation With: Adam Ware, SVP of Growth Networks, Sinclair

In the mid-1990s, Adam Ware found himself traveling a lot on Rupert Murdoch’s private jet. The trips were all business — he and several other young...

A Conversation With: Adam Ware, SVP of Growth Networks, Sinclair

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