A special committee of Paramount’s board of directors supports a merger with Skydance, a studio that has increased its offer in recent days. But the deal isn’t done yet.
Leaders from Televisa Univision, WCVB, KPIX and Ross will discuss the upshots of adopting virtual sets and AR into their news production and the challenges they’ve navigated along the way in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch Webinar on June 27 at 1 p.m. ET. Register here.
After a nine-year revival, Sony’s TriStar Television label, which was behind such series as The Afterparty, is being phased out again. Its two top executives, EVP Jennifer Turner, who ran the unit for the past two and a half years, and SVP Nicole Norwood, will be leaving the studio. TriStar Television has no current series on the air. Its development slate will be taken over by Sony Pictures Television’s drama development team. Pictured: The Afterparty, Lucky Hank, On Becoming a God in Central Florida and Good Girls Revolt (AMC/Showtime/Prime)
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Matt Loeb, the president of IATSE, told members Saturday that he is hopeful that a deal will be reached “soon” with the studios on a new agreement for 23 local unions across the country.
In the newsroom restructuring, Matt Murray and Robert Winnett will take on new editorial leadership roles at the newspaper.
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The final season of last year's viral phenomenon was previously available only on Peacock.
AI & THE MEDIA
AI Safety Becomes A Partisan Battlefield
Like "election integrity" in politics, everyone says they support "AI safety" — but now the term means something different depending on who's saying it. The noisy departure of the head of OpenAI's "superalignment" team, charged with limiting any harm from advanced AI, reignited a long-running Silicon Valley debate on AI safety.
In early trading Monday, Germany's DAX advanced 1% to 18,728.00 and the CAC 40 in Paris climbed 0.6% to 8,040.94. Britain's FTSE 100 added 0.4% to 8,313.50.
AI & THE MEDIA
Google Rolls Back AI Search Feature After Flubs And Flaws
Google appears to have turned off its new AI Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors. Pictured: Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, introduced A.I. Overviews, an AI feature in its search engine, last month. (Jeff Chiu/AP)
Seedtag, which recently launched its Contextual TV offering for connected TV advertising, said it acquired Beachfront Media, a sell-side platform with direct access to CTV inventory.
Martin Starger, a producer for such films as Robert Altman’s Nashville and Peter Bogdanovich’s Mask, died Friday. As the first president of ABC Entertainment, he helped bring such projects as Roots, Happy Days and Rich Man, Poor Man to television.
At Covington & Burling, he was at the forefront of law related to satellite communications, cellular phone service and broadband technologies.
Technology leaders from NBC Regional Sports Networks, Sinclair, Gray Television, Hearst Television and Fox Television Stations discuss the benefits and challenges of remote production in an IP environment in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch webinar on July 16 at 1 p.m. ET. Register here.
