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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…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, July 3, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Going into the long holiday weekend, the LA media story wasn’t at a newspaper or a studio — it was on the radio dial. iHeartMedia spent the week swinging the axe across its 800-plus stations, the May ratings book landed with the first hard numbers on the KNX simulcast split, and the…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, June 26, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A one-week sweep, June 19 through 26, and the through-line is money — who isn’t paying it, who’s about to lose it, and who’s handing out trophies for the work that survives anyway. The paper of record stands accused of stiffing its own stars, Los Angeles County put a number on the…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, June 19, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A two-week haul this time around — we held last Friday for lack of pinned-down material, so this issue sweeps June 6 through 19. It was a fortnight defined by power: a utility taking aim at the city’s paper of record, a studio megamerger clearing Washington with only Sacramento left in its…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, June 5, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A week with David Ellison’s fingerprints all over it. The new Paramount Skydance regime spent the first days of June detonating “60 Minutes” on one coast and filing for permission to swallow Warner Bros. Discovery on another — two stories, one owner, and a whole lot of Angelenos wondering who they’ll be…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, May 29, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff A short, dense week in LA media. The story that animated Town in May – what happens to public radio after the federal money turns off – moved from theory to memo this week, with NPR taking a knife to its own newsroom. The Croisette wrapped with a familiar name on the…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, May 22, 2026
The debut edition of FishbowlLA’s weekly LA media roundup: CBS News Radio signs off after nearly a century, KNX cuts its last cord to CBS, NPR sends out buyouts, LA’s independent newsrooms band together, and Hollywood ghosts Cannes.