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JTN Networks, parent company of Just the News, acquires The Post Millennial and Human Events, which has been featuring columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/right-wing-media-brands-merge-j…

JTN Networks Acquires Post Millennial And Human Events In Union Of Brands On The Right
JTN Networks, the parent company of Just the News, has acquired the Human Events and The Post Millennial, uniting news brands on the right. Human Events, which was founded in 1944 and has more recently featured columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec, the MAGA influencer, will end daily publication this month and will be transformed […]

Ranking NFL Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year candidates at midseason: Who makes top five? https://www.nfl.com/news/ranking-nfl-offensive-and-defensive-rookie-of-the-year-candidates-at-midseason-who-makes-top-five<…

Spotify's video podcasts deal with Netflix will bring 16 shows to the platform, including The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables, and Serial Killers (Spotify)
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-14/netflix-partnership-the-ringer…

Spotify Studios and The Ringer Video Podcasts Are Coming to Netflix — Spotify
Early next year, your favorite video podcasts are getting a bigger stage. Spotify and Netflix are teaming up to bring sports, culture, lifestyle, and true crime video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer to Netflix to complement the streamer’s existing programming and unlock new audiences and wider distribution for the shows.  Audiences will be...

After Trump's budget cuts, radio and TV stations are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they mull whether to drop national programming altogether (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/poli

NPR and PBS Must Transform After Trump’s Cuts Cripple Broadcasters
Radio and television stations, facing enormous budget holes, are pleading with NPR and PBS to lower their fees as they examine whether to drop national programming altogether.

WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj-restructures-…

WSJ restructures health, science and education, makes layoffs - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday: Dear all, Today we are announcing changes to how we structure our health, science and education teams at The Wall Street Journal. The health group is returning to the business team after becoming a separate coverage area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Coverage of […]

DMG Media launches two social publishers to produce original content for the Daily Mail's TikTok and Instagram; its social channels have 150M followers in total (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/social_medi

Mail invests heavily in creating content for Tiktok and Instagram
Daily Mail publisher DMG Media has launched two social publisher arms, “doubling down” on reaching young people and what they can offer advertisers.

Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/spotify-will-now-let-free-users-pic…

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch
On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media.

Google and Disney's agreement gives YouTube TV users access to ESPN's full lineup of sports, including ESPN Unlimited, at no additional cost by the end of 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/youtube-tv-disney-bla…

YouTube TV and Disney Reach Deal Ending Two-Week Blackout of ESPN, ABC
ESPN, ABC and other Disney TV networks are coming back to YouTube TV, after the media conglomerate and Google reached a deal on pricing and terms for a renewed carriage deal.

A look at the networks, studios, executives, and libraries of Paramount and WBD amid merger talk, and similarities with Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-merger-hollyw…

Sizing Up A Possible Paramount-WBD Merger, Hollywood Wonders If This Episode Is A Repeat
Paramount's interest in acquiring all of Warner Bros. Discovery gave Hollywood flashbacks to the 2019 Disney-Fox deal.

Early Nielsen data shows that the 77th Emmys drew 7.42M viewers across CBS and Paramount , marking a four-year viewership high and up 8% YoY (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/emmys-2025-tv-ratings-1236544441/

Emmys Hits 4-Year Viewership High, Achieving Best Audience Since Last Time CBS Hosted
What TV ratings did the 2025 Emmy Awards ceremony achieve and how did they stack up compared to previous years?