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Why the ‘New Paramount’ is placing AI creation at is core

Tim Mulligan

9 Jul 2024

Yesterday, Skydance Media CEO David Ellison outlined hisvision for Paramount Global as a rebooted technology-media hybrid company .This follows on from Paramount finally agreeing to merge with Ellison’s Skydance Media in a new combined entity–– currently being referred to as “new Paramount�...

Skydance is seeking to become of Paramount importance for streaming

Tim Mulligan

12 Dec 2023

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The tectonic plates of consolidation are once again on the move with The New York Times breaking the story on Sunday that Shari Redstone, the President of National Amusements, Inc. (NAI) and Chair of Paramount Global, is in talks with Skydance to sell a controlling stake in NAI.

Does Virgin Media Plus O2 Equal A New UK Communications Major?

Tim Mulligan

6 May 2020

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Liberty Global which is the parent company of Virgin Media, is in talks with Telefonica subsidiary O2 about combining the two businesses together to create a new UK challenger to BT. Virgin Media is the second largest pay-TV operator in the UK with four million video subscribers and 5.