Friday December 12, 2025 IN THE NEWS The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have struck a three-year licensing deal that makes Disney the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform. Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos, drawing from a set of more than 200 […]
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM OMEDA Thursday December 11, 2025 IN THE NEWS YouTube TV will start offering over 10 cheaper, genre-specific packages early next year that give “more choice and flexibility to our subscribers,” the company said in a blog post. YouTube TV Plans will include a sports plan with a comprehensive […]
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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM OMEDA Tuesday December 9, 2025 IN THE NEWS Paramount launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, three days after WBD announced a deal with Netflix that had won the approval of both companies’ boards. Paramount circumvented the WBD board to offer shareholders what it described […]
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM PREMION Monday December 8, 2025 IN THE NEWS Did you hear? Netflix rocked the media industry on Friday with the announcement that it had reached a deal valued at $72 billion to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s film and television studios, HBO Max, and HBO. If the deal is […]
Friday December 5, 2025 IN THE NEWS “CBS Evening News” co-anchor Maurice DuBois is leaving as part of a larger overhaul of talent at the network. DuBois announced his departure via Instagram Thursday, adding that December 18 will be his last broadcast at CBS News. “It has been the Honor of a Lifetime,” he […]
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM HALLMARK CHANNEL Thursday December 4, 2025 IN THE NEWS Comcast has set January 2 as the date to spin off most of its portfolio of cable networks into a new publicly traded company, Versant, led by CEO Mark Lazarus. The new entity will include MS NOW, CNBC, E!, […]
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM PREMION Wednesday December 3, 2025 IN THE NEWS AMC Networks and TNA Wrestling struck a multi-year agreement to bring TNA’s flagship weekly show, “Thursday Night iMPACT!”, to AMC. AMC will feature the show as a two-hour block of TNA Wrestling every Thursday from 9-11p, starting, January 15. “TNA’s […]
Tuesday December 2, 2025 IN THE NEWS Older viewers are fueling much of the growth in influencer content, according to data from Ampere Analysis – among 55–64-year-olds, weekly viewing of influencer content in the US has jumped from 44% in 2020 to 54% in 3Q25. “The biggest surprise in our latest data wasn’t how […]
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM SCREENVISION Cinema Wins the Holiday and Everything After Record attendance, premium attention, and a slate built to outperform every other screen. Whether it’s Broadway musicals or animated franchises, cinema delivers. ~27.2M packed theaters this Thanksgiving, ~8.6M for Wicked: For Good, and ~14.5M for Zootopia 2. December surges with Avatar: Fire and […]