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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, October 9, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff It closed. After a summer of attorneys general, a judge who declined to rubber-stamp anything and a settlement that finally held, Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery completed on Tuesday — and the company that now owns Paramount, Warner Bros., CBS, CNN and HBO is called neither of the names you would…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, October 2, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff Two courtrooms decided a good deal of this town’s media future in the space of 24 hours. On Wednesday a federal judge signed off on the deal that lets Paramount swallow Warner Bros. Discovery. On Thursday another one threw out the lawsuit in which the owner of Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline…
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FishbowlLA — The Week in LA Media, September 25, 2026
By FishbowlLA Staff One story ate the week. On Monday the State of California cut a deal with Paramount Skydance that clears the way for it to swallow Warner Bros. Discovery — and, in the fine print, bars the studio from packing up its Southern California lots. By Thursday a federal judge had declined to…
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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…