Donald J. Trump, the former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a case stemming from a payment that silenced a porn star.
Dow Sinks 330, Nasdaq Loses 184, S&P Drops 31
Most of Wall Street rose Thursday, but falls for some big tech stocks dragged indexes lower.
Jury deliberation meant tense, ultimately boring hours of waiting for lawyers, journalists and others at the Manhattan courtroom where former President Donald Trump's hush money trial is being held. It's the same for TV networks covering the case — except they have hours of time to fill for viewers. Rather than switch to something else, they have largely stuck close to the courthouse. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP)
Data on millions of PayPal users should boost its new advertising business run by Mark Grether, who formerly led Uber’s advertising group. At least that’s what the company hopes as targeting signals vanish.
David Ellison’s Skydance has sweetened its offer to acquire Paramount Global, in an attempt to make it more palatable to the company’s Class B stockholders.
DTVA was formed on the heels of challenging outcomes with features The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron. Initially, DTVA was restricted from using established Disney legacy characters, but nevertheless had huge successes with new shows like The Wiggles and Adventures of the Gummi Bears, both of which became popular in syndication.
Fable Studio, an Emmy-winning San Francisco startup, on Thursday announced Showrunner, a platform the company says can write, voice and animate episodes of shows it carries. Under the initial release, users will be able to watch AI-generated series and create their own content — complete with the ability to control dialogue, characters and shot types, among other controls.
The former Bad Robot executive will be senior adviser to the office of the CEO at Lionsgate.
With growing digital channels of video content — streaming, connected TV, and otherwise — advertising quality and ad experience are facing some issues, according to a new report from Comcast’s FreeWheel.
Bill Pruitt, who worked on the first seasons of the NBC reality show, writes in a story on Slate that Trump used the word while dismissing the idea that a Black contestant, Kwame Jackson, could be an early winner on the series.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who started talking about more deals shortly after inking a massive merger, irritating Wall Street, has been publicly quiet on that front for a bit. Today, he said he sees opportunities in M&A with the company on a stronger financial footing and rolling out streamer Max globally to achieve necessary scale.
The former GM of WACH Columbia, S.C. is tapped to succeed the retiring Mike Oates as head of Gray’s CBS-NBC duopoly.
Reality TV contestants are barely paid, and the experience can feel like abuse. Former cast members of Netflix’s megahit are speaking out — and calling for solidarity.
The spinoff of The Good Wife and The Good Fight is a unique breakout — a broadcast TV ratings success that thrives on bright colors, quips and kindness.
Shonda Rhimes’ medical drama continues to draw new fans and has become the most-streamed Disney show around the world.
One series will involve bandmates auditioning and rehearsing without ever seeing each other.
Siding against Amazon, a federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with charges that the company used “dark patterns” to dupe people into signing up for Prime subscriptions, and also thwarted subscribers' attempts to cancel.
Peltz sold all of his Disney stock at roughly $120 a share, making about $1 billion on the position, according to a person familiar with the matter. The stock currently trades for about $100 per share. The exit comes weeks after Peltz’s Trian Partners lost a proxy battle at Disney in early April as shareholders reelected the company’s full slate of board nominees.
Development and production have been sluggish since the strikes, leaving desperate workers in the lurch: "All of a sudden the faucet just turned off."
CBS has the grayest primetime audience (and the largest one), while Fox’s five animated series helped age down that broadcaster during the 2023-24 season.
CTS to acquire, prepare, create, package and deliver linear TV and OTT channels.
Robert De Niro, announced as the winner of the NAB’s Leadership Foundation’s Service to America Leadership Award the day before, will not get the award. The NAB noted that the June 4 awards event is “proudly bipartisan,” and said on Wednesday the actor’s “recent high-profile activities will create a distraction.”
Shares opened higher in Europe on Thursday after a retreat in Asia as rising bond yields weighed on stock prices. (Ahn Young-joon/AP)
Kennedy alleges the requirements to participate in the June 27 debate were designed to ensure only Biden and Trump would qualify and Kennedy claims he is being held to a higher standard. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
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