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Disney could use an activist investor like Nelson Peltz
An activist investor like Trian Partners’ Nelson Peltz on Walt Disney ‘s (DIS) board could help prod the entertainment conglomerate to address its financial woes and implement much-needed ...
Vice Media restarts sale process at lower valuation
Vice Media offices display the Vice logo in Venice, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Vice Media is restarting its sale process after earlier interested bidders balked at the initial price tag, ac...
LIV Golf reaches broadcast rights deal with CW Network
Signage on a golf ball at the LIV golf tournament on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois. Brian Cassella | Tribune News Service | Getty Images LIV Golf reached a m...
Alec Baldwin to be charged in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting
Alec Baldwin will be criminally charged by New Mexico prosecutors for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film “Rust,” authorities said Thursday. B...
Crypto Media House CoinDesk Taps Bankers to Explore Potential Sale
CoinDesk’s CEO to explore ways to attract growth capital for the company. CoinDesk has received several inbound indications of interest in the firm. Last year, CoinDesk had revenue of $50 million. Acc...
Tennis Channel to air Major League Pickleball tournament matches
The Tennis Channel is embracing pickleball. Major League Pickleball announced Thursday the cable channel will broadcast the league’s premier level tournament semifinals and finals in Mesa, Arizo...
China tightens media control with tiny stakes in two Alibaba units
Alibaba completed its acquisition of video platform operator Youku Tudou in 2016. Pictured here is an old version of the Youku logo. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images BEIJING — State-backed ent...
Board also light on media experience
Nelson Peltz David A. Grogan | CNBC Disney directors unanimously rejected activist investor Nelson Peltz’s request to join the board this month, in large part due to his lack of media industry e...
IQiyi stock pulls back sharply after large ADS offering
Shares of iQiyi Inc. IQ, -16.44% plunged 17.2% in afternoon trading Tuesday, putting them on track for the biggest one-day drop in 10 months, after the China-based streaming-video company took advanta...
Disney defends Iger, says activist Peltz has ‘no track record’ in big media
Nelson Peltz David A. Grogan | CNBC Disney pushed back on Nelson Peltz’s bid for a board seat Tuesday, as the entertainment giant’s proxy fight with the investor and his activist firm, Tri...
Netflix, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines, Morgan Stanley, and More Stocks to Watch This Week
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Insights on the Blockchain in Media, Advertising and Entertainment Global Market to 2027 – U.S. Market is Estimated at $145 Million – ResearchAndMarkets.com
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Blockchain in Media, Advertising, and Entertainment: Global Strategic Business Report” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The global market for Blo...
Netflix, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines, Morgan Stanley, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
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Bloomberg, WSJ, CoinDesk Among the Media Outlets Seeking to Know Who Bailed Out Sam Bankman-Fried
“The public’s interest in this matter cannot be overstated,” said one filing made Thursday to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Southern District of New York on behalf of the Associated Press, B...
For All His Criticisms of Disney, Peltz and Iger Probably Agree: Streaming Has to Be Fixed
“Great news: Nelson Peltz made a slide deck about me,” said no CEO ever. But maybe Walt Disney Bob Iger had mixed feelings about the 35-pager that dropped this past week. One one hand, it says that he...
Reveal Secret Signatures On SBF’s $250M Bond: Media Lawyers
Eight mainstream media outlets are calling for the release of two unknown names who co-signed Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250 million bond. In a letter filed with the court on Thursday, lawyers from Davis Wr...
RFK Jr. Sues BBC And Other Media Outlets Over Covid ‘Censorship’
Topline Robert F. Kennedy Jr and a band of anti-vaccine activists have filed an antitrust lawsuit against some of the world’s top news media organizations alleging the companies worked with social med...
‘Flash’ star Ezra Miller avoids jail with trespassing plea deal
Actor Ezra Miller arrives at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Justice League’ at Dolby Theatre on November 13, 2017 in Hollywood, California. Axelle/bauer-griffin | Filmmagic ...
Rupert Murdoch deposition delayed in Dominion-Fox lawsuit
Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp and co-chairman of 21st Century Fox, arrives at the Sun Valley Resort of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 10, 2018 in Sun Valley, Idaho....
Disney CEO Bob Iger went sailing on his yacht while activist investor Nelson Peltz ramped up pressure on the media giant
With its stock price flailing and under rising pressure from activist investor Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners, newly reinstalled Disney (DIS) CEO Bob Iger reportedly spent the holidays enjoying the op...
Major Media Demands Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250M Bail Sureties
Eight significant media organizations demand SBF bail sureties identities. The U.S. attorney claimed public interest cannot be overstated. United States District Court of the Southern District of New...
Media power group files request to reveal SBF’s secret bail signatories
A collection of news media giants requested that the court handling fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal case reveal who, other than his parents, signed his $250 million bail bond. T...
ConocoPhillips in Talks to Sell Venezuelan Oil in U.S. to Recover Billions It Is Owed
ConocoPhillips, which abandoned Venezuela after its assets were nationalized in 2007, is now open to a deal to sell the country’s oil in the U.S. as a way to recover the close to $10 billion it is owe...
AEW has interest in merging with WWE
WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon speaks at a news conference announcing the WWE Network at the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas. Getty Images All Elite Wrestling, a professional wrestling league ...
Peltz may be overreaching with Disney proxy fight
Bob Iger, chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Co. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Activist investor Nelson Peltz spent about 30 minutes Thursday morning speaking with CNBC’s ...