All posts tagged "Larry Ellison"

Bari Weiss' struggles at CBS have deepened as a key news program has recorded its worst ratings ever, per reports.

According to reporting by Mediaite, CBS Mornings saw the lowest-rated week in the history of the program and a rough July. The bad ratings mark a new low for Weiss' rocky tenure as the editor-in-chief of CBS News, which is owned by MAGA-friendly David Ellison's Paramount Skydance.

Nielsen data showed that CBS Mornings had an average viewership of 1.59 million for the week starting on July 13, according to Mediaite. The program, which debuted in 2021, had never fallen below an average viewership of 1.6 million, Mediaite noted....

A red state is capitalizing on a major Hollywood studio's rift with California over a Trump-backed merger, per reports.

According to a Tuesday article by The Hollywood Reporter, Tennessee is courting Paramount Skydance as it sets its sights on a new home. Paramount Skydance has threatened to leave California after a coalition of a dozen attorneys general filed a lawsuit to block a $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The Trump Department of Justice greenlit the merger earlier this year.

The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development sent a letter on July 2 to Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, in which it tried to woo the Trump-allied chairman....

A state attorney general brushed off a "blackmail" attempt by a media executive amid a lawsuit against a Trump-backed merger.

During an interview with former CNN anchor Jim Acosta, California Attorney General Rob Bonta talked about how David Ellison, the head of Paramount Skydance, threatened to pull out of Hollywood if his merger with Warner Bros. Discovery gets blocked. The Trump Department of Justice greenlit the merger earlier this year, paving the way for Paramount to take over the major Hollywood studio.

"That just felt like a desperate last-ditch effort to try to blackmail my office and the other AGs who have a job to do," Bonta said. "A duty to regulate and to blackmail us into allowing an illegal merger to go through, which we can't do, we won't do, we didn't do, we will never do."...

Fund managers, CalSTRS and PGGM of the Netherlands to press for a vote against Oracle's executive pay policies