Weekly Media News
Every Friday, the stories everyone's talking about. No industry jargon. Just the news that matters to people actually watching, listening, and building.
Over 1,000 Hollywood names — Bryan Cranston, Glenn Close, J.J. Abrams, Lin-Manuel Miranda — signed a letter demanding regulators block the $110B Paramount-Warner merger. Meanwhile Netflix posted $5 billion in profit and Reed Hastings walked out the door.
Disney just fired 1,000 people. Sony cut hundreds more. J.J. Abrams is leaving LA for New York. And Meta is paying creators cold cash to abandon TikTok. This is what a media industry in full reset mode looks like.
Netflix just hit $20 a month. That’s the headline. That’s the story. Everything else this week is just noise around that one brutal fact.
CBS News Radio is closing in May 2026. One hundred years. Seven hundred affiliate stations. Gone. Radio was the original streaming service. Now it's dead because nobody's listening anymore.
Netflix released One Piece Season 2, Scarpetta brought prestige crime drama to streaming, Virgin River proved comfort TV still wins, and Rooster showed character-driven comedy is the new standard. Here's what actually matters.
The Pitt just hit 12 million viewers per episode on Max — up 50% from last season. Here's why everyone's suddenly obsessed, plus what's coming to Netflix, Prime, and the podcast world this week.
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