‘The UK needs some media free of US control’: Comcast’s move for ITV starts to focus minds
With public service broadcasters starting to look like ‘endangered species’, many want Channel 4 and BBC to work more closely
Channel 4 poaches new chief executive Priya Dogra from Sky
Head of advertising and data at Sky will lead C4’s response to threatened Comcast takeover of ITV
Why has Paramount Skydance launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery – and what happens now?
The future of some of the world’s most prominent media and entertainment businesses hangs in the balance
Netflix buying Warner Bros is bad news for cinema and those of us who love it
The proposed acquisition would see yet more of Hollywood controlled by a tech company and one that doesn’t seem to care about the theatrical experience
Paramount Skydance makes $108.4bn bid for Warner Bros Discovery, challenging Netflix’s offer – as it happened
Paramount says its hostile offer “provides superior value, and a more certain and quicker path to completion to WBD shareholders”
Trump warns Netflix’s $83bn deal for Warner Bros poses competition concerns
President vows to get involved in controversial takeover described as ‘unprecedented’ by ex-chair of regulator
Warner Bros Disaster? Netflix inks deal for troubled Hollywood giant
David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, promised ‘everyone’ would win by combining the storied Hollywood studios with his reality TV giant. Instead, many lost
‘This merger must be blocked’: Netflix-Warner Bros deal faces fierce backlash
US politicians and Hollywood guilds have voiced concerns against the proposed $83bn purchase of the studio
The end of big-screen cinema? What Netflix hopes to achieve by buying Warner Bros
IP success stories such as Barbie and the DC Universe? That elusive best picture Oscar? Or perhaps the main goal is a good old-fashioned blockbuster
Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros Discovery studio and streaming business in $83bn deal
Streaming service to gain control of studio behind Harry Potter and Batman, as well as HBO, home to The White Lotus and Game of Thrones
Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws
Ruling could put European Commission on collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump
Explaining UK debt with biscuits: Labour MPs get the hang of viral content
Gordon McKee, whose explainer has racked up 3m views, leads way as party tries to harness power of social media
Advertising giant WPP relegated from FTSE 100 after nearly 30 years
Market value of ad group that was once world’s largest plummets from about £24bn in 2017 to £3.1bn
Nike, Superdry and Lacoste ads banned in UK over ‘misleading’ green claims
Advertising watchdog says all three firms misled shoppers by using term ‘sustainable’ in paid-for Google adverts
Virgin Media fined £23.8m for putting vulnerable customers at risk
Company failed to protect thousands of people switching from analogue to digital landline, Ofcom rules