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David and Larry Ellison Sued by Paramount Investor Over Alleged Trump Side Deal
The lawsuit claims that the Ellisons illegally promised to overhaul CNN as the administration looks to reshape media.
The complaint follows a coalition of state attorneys general,
the Writers Guild of America
and Paramount subscribers filing lawsuits against the studio.
A fourth lawsuit has been filed looking to block Paramount‘s bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery
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David and Larry Ellison Sued by Paramount Investor Over Alleged Trump Side Deal
The lawsuit claims that the Ellisons illegally promised to overhaul CNN as the administration looks to reshape media. The complaint follows a coalition of state attorneys general, the Writers Guild of America and Paramount+ subscribers filing lawsuits against the studio.

Paramount agrees to a request from 12 states, led by CA, to link their federal antitrust case in the WBD merger to an existing Paramount subscriber lawsuit (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-states-antitrust-cas…

Paramount Agrees to States' Move to Link Antitrust Case to Subscriber Suit
Paramount has agreed to tie the antitrust suit to an earlier case, meaning the state case will end up before Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin.

Menopause und Perimenopause: Apple trackt Zyklus, gibt Tipps und mehr
iOS 27 und Co. bekommen neue Gesundheitsfeatures für Frauen in den Wechseljahren. Das betrifft nicht nur iPhone und Apple Watch.
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Menopause und Perimenopause: Apple trackt Zyklus, gibt Tipps und mehr
iOS 27 und Co. bekommen neue Gesundheitsfeatures für Frauen in den Wechseljahren. Das betrifft nicht nur iPhone und Apple Watch.

Sources: Paramount's WBD deal to absorb HBO Max may breach its joint venture agreement with Comcast to avoid direct streaming competition in European markets (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/paramount-warner-takeover-skyshowtime-c…

Paramount’s Warner Bros. Takeover Expected To Breach Its SkyShowtime Venture With Comcast
Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is expected to create complications for its SkyShowtime partnership with Comcast.

Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount.

Conflict of Interest:
Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts,
FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality
and should avoid acting on Paramount’s pending merger.
Mixing Business and Pleasure:
After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took …

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

Audible: Premium-Podcasts künftig auch in Apple-App anhörbar
Wem die Audible-App zum Anhören von Podcast-Inhalten der Amazon-Tochter nicht gefällt, kann dank „Connected Subscription“ nun auch Apples Player verwenden.

Audible: Premium-Podcasts künftig auch in Apple-App anhörbar
Wem die Audible-App zum Anhören von Podcast-Inhalten der Amazon-Tochter nicht gefällt, kann dank „Connected Subscription“ nun auch Apples Player verwenden.

Alan Cumming Urges UK Industry To Help Bring Down Paramount-Warner Merger, As Government Poised To Make Intervention (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/alan-cumming-paramount-warner-boycott-block-the-merger-1236982775/

Alan Cumming Urges UK Industry To Help Bring Down Paramount-Warner Merger, As Government Poised To Make Intervention
Alan Cumming is leading a Paramount-Warner boycott via a Block The Merger UK coalition as the government prepares to make an announcement.

Federal Communications Commissioner Olivia Trusty
cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.
Now, the commissioner and a guest enjoyed the star-studded celebration thanks to tickets gifted to her by Paramount worth more than $12,000, according to ethics disclosure records obtained by ProPublica.
The other commissioner who approved the merger watched from a prized perch.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr and his wife sat in a privat…

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

In a filing disputing state AGs' request for a temporary restraining order, Paramount argued its merger with WBD would increase theatrical motion picture output (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-slams-stat…

Paramount Slams States' Lawsuit Over Warner Bros. Merger
Paramount filed its opposition to the states' request for a temporary restraining order to pause the Warner Bros. merger.

Sources: execs expect a judge to grant a temporary restraining order requested by 12 state AGs in the Paramount-WBD merger, delaying it by two to three weeks (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/media/paramount-wbd-merger-lawsuit-tro-bonta

Paramount and Warner Bros. expect a delay in closing the deal
Executives involved in the pending Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery deal expect that a judge will hit pause on the takeover plan in the coming days.