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Charter and Cox plan $34.5 billion merger under Spectrum brand

The new company would be by far the largest U.S. pay-TV provider.

Disney-Fubo deal facing formal Department of Justice antitrust investigation

The criticisms of the Disney-Fubo move have escalated into an antitrust investigation.

Fubo settles Venu lawsuit, will merge with Disney’s Hulu+Live TV

If this move is approved, it will have plenty of implications across streaming TV.

DirecTV, Dish merger deal falls apart

The decision comes after bondholders representing around $10.7 billion of debt in Dish rejected a debt-exchange offer

Paramount Global enters exclusive merger talks with Skydance

Paramount Global turned down a $26 billion offer from Apollo Global to pursue exclusive talks with Skydance.

What a Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Global merger could mean to sports fans

Paramount+ and Max merging would only be the start.

Potential USFL-XFL merger could come in immediate future

The USFL and the XFL hold a large portion of the market individually as the largest spring football...

WWE CEO Nick Khan offers insight on upcoming Pac-12, NBA, and WWE media deals

"I think [the Pac-12 is] in a tough spot."

The Athletic is again looking for a buyer, asking more than $750 million, has hired investment bank LionTree

For at least the third time this year, there are talks about The Athletic being for sale.

AT&T to combine WarnerMedia assets with Discovery in blockbuster merger

The Turner networks and HBO are among the assets included in the deal.

Charlie Ergen calls Dish merger with DirecTV “inevitable,” makes overture to Sinclair RSNs after first Sling TV subscriber loss

"The growth in TV is not coming from linear TV providers, but from huge programmers. You just can't swim upstream against a real tide of big players."

Dramatic consolidation across local TV, radio and newspapers is a key part of cuts, and it seems set to increase further in 2020

A lot of media cuts can be traced not just to digital competition and changing business patterns, but also consolidation and investment firms' involvement. And that trend may rise further still this year.

Flutter’s purchase of The Stars Group gives Fox an option to buy 18.5 percent of FanDuel Group in 2021

This deal has already boosted the value of Fox's Stars stake, and could lead to them getting a bigger stake in the new company.

CBS’ Viacom deal gives them some more scale, but they’re still a ways behind many competitors

A recombination with Viacom should boost CBS, but they're still a long way behind many competitors when it comes to market capitalization.

New York revokes approval of Charter/Spectrum/Time Warner Cable merger, gives Spectrum 60 days to transition to successor

Charter (doing business in New York as Spectrum) is the biggest cable provider in the state, with over 2 million subscribers across cable/internet/phone.

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