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Top U.S. cable operator Comcast has reached a carriage renewal with Paramount Global, averting a potential blackout of service around the New Year’s holiday. The deal, confirmed to Deadline by a Paramount spokesperson, comes before the expiration of the current pact at the end of the year. In January 2022, Paramount (then known as ViacomCBS)

If you crack open a bottle of something – be it wine, water or soft drinks – over the festive season, there’s a good chance the glass came from the Encirc factory in Cheshire. Here, on the banks of the River Mersey, you will find one of the world’s largest glass factories. They take sand

A consumer privacy lawsuit seeking at least $5 billion in damages over allegations Google tracked users who thought they were browsing the internet privately has been settled. No terms have been disclosed. The”incognito” mode on Google’s Chrome browser still followed users, as emails revealed during the trial proved. The data was used to sell ads.

The cost of shipping goods has again grown significantly as freight giants continue to avoid the key Red Sea route and unions expand protections for mariners. Freight prices rose 80% in the past week, having already gone up nearly 50% the week before. The most widely used measure of freight cost, the Shanghai Containerised Freight

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has sat with presidents, he’s marched with Jesse Jackson and he’s been arrested in peaceful protests for voting rights and higher wages, but his recent experience at the AMC Fire Tower 12 was new to him. The civil rights leader, at the Greenville, N.C. theater with his 90-year-old mother to

Eminem‘s handlers are arguing that he’s the real Slim Shady, and all others should not be allowed to trademark the “Shady” phrase, which is closely identified with the rapper thanks to his song The Real Slim Shady. Thus, they have requested a protective order against Real Housewives of Potomac reality stars Gizelle Bryant and Robyn

Elon Musk‘s X on Thursday has lost its bid to change a California law on content moderation disclosure by social media companies. X sued California in September to undo the state’s content moderation law, saying it violated free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment and California’s state constitution. Today, U.S. District Judge William

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has acquired Turkish streamer BluTV. The U.S. media giant already had a 35% stake in the eight-year-old streamer along with content deals in place, and has upped stake to 100%. Today’s news builds on WBD boss David Zaslav’s declaration during the company’s Q3 results call that it would be allocating capital

The secretary of state of Maine has determined that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on that state’s ballot, finding that he is disqualified under the 14th Amendment‘s insurrection clause. Shenna Bellows wrote that Trump “used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the Capitol to

A favorite and feverish game from Wall Street to Hollywood heading into 2024 is pairing up media companies, or pieces of them, to see what fits where in a high-stakes jigsaw puzzle that will shape the future of the industry. Ongoing streaming losses, anticipated interest rate cuts (that could lower financing costs), more robust stock

EXCLUSIVE: With the 10th edition of the Playoff set to cap off a high-rated season starting on New Year’s Day, Disney says advertising inventory is nearly sold out for the semifinals and championship. “We have a lot of consistency with brands,” Deidra Maddock, VP, Sports Brand Solutions, Disney Advertising, told Deadline in an interview. “Not

SAG-AFTRA’s use of an AI image to help promote its upcoming Labor Innovation & Technology Summit has drawn the ire of at least one noted artist who believes it took away jobs from humans. The illustration features a woman looking into the face of an AI robot, which rattled Karla Ortiz, whose credits include Black

“Ain’t gonna let nobody make me take my chair home. God made me. I belong here. I got a right to a seating’s the place. The only time you can take my chair is when I die and go to heaven. Until then I’m fighting.” That was Rev. Dr. William Barber at a press conference

The New York Times has become the first major news organisation to sue the makers of the groundbreaking generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, ChatGPT. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday morning in Manhattan, lawyers for the New York Times alleged Open AI, and its biggest investor Microsoft, unlawfully used its articles to train and create

Apple has won the right to import two of its most popular smartwatches into the United States, after the appeals court paused a previous ban on imports. The tech giant was ordered in October to stop importing and selling Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches, following a complaint from medical-monitoring technology company Masimo that it

Rishi Sunak has been accused of a “desperate” briefing on inheritance tax (IHT) after reports suggested it would be slashed ahead of the next election. It comes as the government confirmed the date of the next spring budget, which will be delivered on 6 March. With a general election looming next year, Mr Sunak will

The owner of one of Britain’s biggest bingo businesses has picked bankers to oversee an auction next year. Sky News understands that Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) has asked Nomura to prepare a sale process for Buzz Bingo, which it has owned since 2021. The timing of an auction and ICG’s price expectations were unclear on

More vinyl LPs were bought this year than at any time since 1990 and are growing at their fastest rate this decade. With just a few more days to go to year-end, the vinyl market has increased by nearly 12%, rising for the 16th year in a row, according to analysis of Official Charts data

House prices in Huddersfield grew at the fastest rate in the UK in the last year – despite a nationwide downturn – according to a report. MIt was one of the locations bucking the national trend, according to the Halifax House Price Trends report, as homes in the West Yorkshire town went for 8.7% more

The Yorkshire family behind the Portakabin modular buildings group is in talks to sell the company to a French investor in a deal that will catapult them into the ranks of Britain’s super-rich. Sky News has learnt that Shepherd Group, which was founded in 1890 by Frederick Shepherd, is in exclusive talks to sell the