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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, September 18, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A week that began as an ordinary run of merger filings and legislative deadlines ended with an LA newsroom burying two of its own. Everything else in the LA media business this week — a studio threatening to leave town, a bill that could keep newsrooms staffed — sits in that shadow.…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, September 11, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A quiet week on the newspaper side, a loud one everywhere else. Nielsen dropped the August book on Tuesday and handed Los Angeles radio one of its odder headlines in half a century; the Television Academy spent the weekend giving out 100-odd statuettes downtown before Monday’s main event; and Telemundo 52 quietly…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, September 4, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A quiet week on the assignment desks heading into Labor Day weekend — no anchor exits, no station shake-ups, no layoff memos landing in anyone’s inbox. What we got instead were three stories about the machinery underneath: a heritage LA call sign filing the number off its own logo, Sacramento voting to…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, August 28, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A week where the biggest LA media story happened in a meeting that never took place, the second-biggest happened in a court filing, and the two most entertaining happened on the FM dial. Here’s what moved between August 21 and 28. Bonta calls off the Paramount talks before anyone sits down California…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, August 21, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A week of paperwork with teeth. Paramount put a number on what the state of California is costing it and asked twelve attorneys general to write the check. Nexstar quietly emptied a boardroom to get out from under a judge. Charter finished swallowing Cox, which is how the Dodgers ended up on…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, August 14, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff The biggest LA media story of the week wasn’t about a newsroom. It was about a zip code. Paramount’s owner let it be known he is prepared to move the company out of California, the state’s attorney general answered with a word you don’t usually see in a press statement, and while…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, August 7, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Two weeks ago the Paramount–Warner deal got frozen. Last week it got parked. This week it got a date — and it is not one anybody on the Melrose lot wanted to hear. Meanwhile the studios opened their books forty-eight hours apart, a Spanish-language institution vanished from the LA dial, and one…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, July 31, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A quiet week on the surface, a consequential one underneath. The Paramount–Warner freeze we reported last Friday hardened into a stay that could run all the way to the summer of 2027; the local television business gave itself a night at the Skirball; and two Los Angeles sports signals quietly became national…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, July 24, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A one-week window after last Friday’s fortnight catch-up, and the two biggest media stories in the country both ran straight through courtrooms and boardrooms with L.A. addresses. A federal judge in Oakland slammed the brakes on the Paramount–Warner megadeal even as Brussels waved it through; Disney handed out pink slips for the…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, July 17, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff We held last Friday for lack of verifiable material, so this one covers the full fortnight — and it turned out to be a busy two weeks. The Television Academy handed out its nominations, Nielsen’s first clean read on the KNX breakup finally landed, and the writers’ guild dragged the Paramount–Warner megadeal…