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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…
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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…