Fubo TV ended the fourth quarter with 1.67 million subscribers, up from 1.613 million North American subscribers in the third quarter and 1.45 million in the second quarter, the sports-focused streamers latest financial earnings report on Friday revealed. Fubo ended the quarter with overall revenue at $433.8 million, up 8 percent from a year-earlier $410 million. During the three months...

iHeartMedia, the AM and FM giant powered by 870 radio stations and growing digital ambitions, saw its podcast revenue rise to $139.6 million in the fourth quarter, up about 6 percent year-over-year. The company cited increased demand from advertisers, even as it saw rising operating expenses due to content costs and podcast profit sharing costs. The company reported total revenue...

As concerns about runaway production mount while California looks to balance its budget and prepares for potential federal funding cuts, top entertainment unions are pulling out all the stops to support proposed expansions to the states film and TV tax incentives program. A group of industry labor groups called the Entertainment Union Coalition is traveling to Sacramento on March 4...

Audacy has expanded its sales and distribution partnership with CBS and will now work with the podcast slates from CBS Entertainment, CBS Media Ventures, CBS News and CBS Studios. The audio company has been the ad sales and distribution partner for CBS Sports since 2022, and has now struck an exclusive, multi-year agreement with CBS on the additional business segments....

NBC News is developing a new subscription streaming service, one that will be geared toward mobile video consumers. Cesar Cond, the chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, announced the service at a summit hosted by Semafor in Washington Thursday. Details are scarce, but Cond said that the company is targeting a fourth quarter launch, and thatit would complement the companys other...

Warner Bros. Discovery is doing away with the term DEI, but says it is still committed to inclusion within its company. In a memo sent to staff Thursday, the company said it plans to continue to tell inclusive and diverse stories and to build an inclusive team through its recruiting and training programs. But the company said it is making...

Stay Alive til 25. That was the battle cry of an industry post-COVID, the strikes and a collective depression (both literal and figurative). We Can Rebuild. This was the hope of legions of writers, drivers, vendors, actors, electricians, costumers, builders, location managers, production assistants, union members, caterers, small business owners all who have taken hit after hit, year after year,...

Escorting an A-lister to their seat just in time to receive an award as they dash back from a bathroom break. Ensuring a presenters dressing room is outfitted to specifications. Dealing with a publicist attempting to skirt clearance protocols for talent. This random assortment of tasks may seem arbitrary, even trivial. Yet these duties, along with dozens of others details...

Actors Equity has voted to ratify a new five-year agreement after an eight-month strike against developmental productions. The new contract includes a cumulative pay increase of more than 8 percent for Equity members, which was the unions top priority in the agreement. It also includes increased pre-production time for stage managers and the creation of a joint working group between...

Former Venu CEO Pete Distad will lead Foxs new direct-to-consumer streaming platform. Distad will be CEO of the recently announced platform, which has yet to be named, but will include channels from Fox News, Fox Sports and the Fox broadcast network. In the new role, Distad will report to Paul Cheesbrough, chief executive officer of Tubi Media Group. Pete is...

CBS News has named Tom Cibrowski president and executive editor, tapping an ABC News veteran to lead the news division at a critical moment. Wendy McMahon, president and CEO of CBS News and Television Stations and CBS Media Ventures, announced Cibrowskis hiring Thursday morning. Cibrowski succeeds Adrienne Roark, the former CBS News president of newsgathering, who left for a job...

Forty five years after its creation, ESPN is expanding the SportsCenter franchise, bringing the sports news show to an entirely new platform: Disney+. ESPN says that it will launch a new Disney+ exclusive version of the franchise called SC+ beginning March 3. Weekday episodes will be hosted by Gary StriewskiandRandy Scott and go live at 9 a.m. and be available...

In what will likely be Endeavors final earnings report as a public company, the owner of WME and TKO Group Holdings reported revenue of nearly $1.6 billion, a net loss of $237 million, and adjusted EBITDA of $277 million. Endeavor, of course, is in the midst of a handful of complex transactions: It is offloading its IMG, On Location and...