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Warner Bros. Discovery reportedly sues the NBA after 40-year partnership

CNBC says media giant will take the league to court.

Fortune

Warner Says It Will 'Take Appropriate Action' Against the NBA After Getting Spurned for Amazon

'We think [the NBA has] grossly misinterpreted our contractual rights with respect to the 2025-26 season and beyond,' declares TNT

Broadcasting & Cable

NBA Says Warner ‘Didn’t Match the Terms’ of Amazon’s Proposal, Enters Long-Term TV Deal With Online Retail Giant

The league says it has officially signed 11-year TV contracts with Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon

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Warner Bros. Discovery Faces Monday Deadline to Match NBA Bids From NBCU, Amazon

Amazon has reportedly put together a poison pill that would require WBD to come up with $5.4 billion immediately in order to match its offer

Broadcasting & Cable

Brainiac was right: Freeze is coming to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League next week, but it may not be quite who you were expecting

She's the chillest supervillain of all.

PC Gamer

Sky and HBO give us the Game of Thrones news we most wanted to hear

There be more dragons ahead as season 3 of House of the Dragon has been commissioned.

NBA-Bereft Warner Bros. Discovery Pays $650 Million for 10 Years of French Open U.S. TV Rights

Annual late-spring pro-tennis tournament will shift from NBCUniversal to WBD linear channels and Max starting in 2025

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NBA Closing In on $76 Billion in TV Money Over 11 Years … With No TNT

WSJ says NBCU will get close to 100 games for $2.5 billion a season, with half of them streaming exclusively on Peacock

Broadcasting & Cable

Furious Charles Barkley Rips Into Warner 'Clowns,' Says They've 'Screwed Up' NBA Renewal Negotiations 'So Badly'

The 'Inside the NBA' star says he's talking with Shaquille O'Neal, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson about continuing the TNT show under his own production banner

Broadcasting & Cable

Gunnar Wiedenfels: Warner Can Still Match Any Rival NBA Rights Offer … ‘But We’re Going to Be Disciplined’

WBD CFO’s maddeningly convoluted statement on the current state of NBA rights talks come amid reports that the league is ready to move on with new telecast partners

Broadcasting & Cable

NBA Reportedly Set to Finalize Deals With ESPN, Amazon and NBCU, Leave TNT and 'Inside the NBA' Behind

With telecast partners are about to sign written contracts worth $7.4 billion a season, Warner CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels still insists his company has the rights to match rival bids

Broadcasting & Cable

Is Roger Goodell Spreading the NFL's Love Too Thin?

Also in this week's Next Text, Venu takes a shot to the vowels, AI gets more hype ... and we ponder whether it's MLB, and not the game of baseball, that's boring

Broadcasting & Cable

Why Roasts Are ‘Vile, Mean, Fascist’ Exercises in ‘Punching Down’ … That Netflix Will Probably Now Want To Do Again and Again

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we rediscover HBO's ‘Hacks,’ the NBC primetime schedule … and basic movie-theater civility

Broadcasting & Cable

Warner Bros. has decided not to take its ball and go home with Adult Swim Games, instead returning control to their original developers

A rare logical and low-effort gesture of goodwill from the mercurial company.

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Reason

How I Learned About The Copyright Act's Statute of Limitations

And how it relates to Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy.

Broadcasting & Cable

Third NBA Rights Option Emerges for David Zaslav and Warner Bros. — Match Amazon’s $1.8 Billion Bid

While telling analysts he didn’t want to discuss NBA negotiations during Thursday’s earnings call, the WBD CEO did want to remind them he could match any third-party offer

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Warner Bros. Discovery Reports $966 Million First-Quarter Loss

Direct-to-consumer business adds 2 million subs, with EBITDA up 72%

Broadcasting & Cable

Disney and Warner Set to Bundle Disney Plus, Max and Hulu Starting This Summer

Media companies call their triple streaming play 'the best value in entertainment,' but no price or specific launch day was revealed

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David Zaslav Sidesteps NBA and Paramount M&A Questions at Milken Conference, Bombastically Declares That Exec Pay Should Align With Stock Price

‘We love the NBA,’ the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO said

Broadcasting & Cable

Why Audiences Have Turned on Jerry Seinfeld and Other Mysteries of the Media-Entertainment Cosmos

Our latest ‘Next Text’ also ponders, is the NBA In-Season Tournament dead … like TNT? And when addressing Paramount’s ‘Office of the CEO,’ which set of eyes do you look into?

Broadcasting & Cable

Court Sets Preliminary Injunction Hearing Date in Fubo Antitrust Suit Against Spulu

Virtual MVPD operator says sports-streaming JV being set up by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery is anticompetitive

International Business Times

Reigning Hollywood Studio Universal Brings 'Wicked' To Movie Summit

Universal Pictures was crowned Hollywood's top studio last year, dethroning Disney at the box office for the first time in nearly a decade with a string of mega-hits like "The Super Mario Bros.

International Business Times

'Joker' Pairs Up With Gaga As Sequel Hype Hits CinemaCon

Warner Bros. offered a glimpse of its eagerly anticipated "Joker" sequel at CinemaCon on Tuesday, as the Hollywood studio set out plans to build on the success of last year's blockbuster "Barbie."

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Drew Goddard To Write And Direct New Matrix Feature Film

Warner Bros. is bringing back The Matrix franchise with a new film by Drew Goddard, promising fresh storytelling while honoring the original creators' legacy.

Broadcasting & Cable

By ‘DTC,’ They Meant ‘Direct to Charter’

In this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we call out the Dodgers’ RSN distribution, Warner's far-fetched DC ambitions, and (of course) Shari’s latest offer

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