Weekly Newsletter
December 06, 2019
Weekly Newsletter 12.06.19
Weekly articles that highlight recent trends, key announcements, and emerging themes across the sports, media, and entertainment industries.
SPORTS
- Will Amazon Change The Way We Watch The Premier League, Or The Other Way Round?
- Why Sinclair’s Sports Bet Is A Risky Play
- As NHL Expands, Private Equity Could Boost Hockey's Financial Boom
TV
- Young Sheldon, Meet SpongeBob: CBS And Viacom Are Back Together
- 5G Broadband Is An Existential Threat To The Cable Industry, But Executives And Investors Aren’t Worried
- David Simon, Hollywood’s Foul-Mouthed Antagonist Fighting For Better Pay
GAMING
- Nintendo Switch Faces An Uphill Slog In China
- Epic Funnels ‘Fortnite’ Cash Into Boosting Games Platform
- Are Publishers Doing Enough With Their Brands?
DIGITAL
- TikTok Takes On Facebook In US Advertising Push
- Here’s What’s Happening In The American Teenage Bedroom
- Instagram Recruits Sports World To Sell Merchandise
AUDIO
- A New Tool From Spotify Walks The Line Between Advertising And Pay-For-Play
- Can Genius Really Win Its Lawsuit Against Google?
- How Bob Boilen Turned NPR's 'Tiny Desk Concerts' Into One Of Music's Biggest Stages
FILM
- One Independent Movie Theater Struggles To Survive In The Netflix Age
- Sundance Gets Real, With A Lineup Of Newsy Films For 2020
- Why Some European Blockbusters Won’t Hit U.S. Screens
In Case You Missed It…
- U.S. Ad Spending Will Rise 6% In 2019 On Political Surge, But TV Is “Soft,” Report Finds
- Plex Launches Free, Ad-Supported Video Service In 200-Plus Countries, Territories
- Sky Plans New U.K. Studio For Online Streaming War
- Netflix, YouTube Share Of U.S. Viewing Time Projected To Drop In 2020
- Netflix To Invest $400M In Indian Content Over Two Years, CEO Reed Hastings Says
- Netflix Reaches More Than 300M Pay TV Homes Through Partnerships
- TiVo Integrates Amazon Prime Video App Into U.S. Pay TV Set Tops
- Another 40% Of U.S. Pay TV Subs ‘At Risk’ Of Cord Cutting
- Overtime, Gen Z Sports Oasis, Looks To Raise $40 Million
- Barstool Sports Tops 30k Paying Subscribers
- Adam Silver Calls Pay TV System “Broken” As NBA Struggles With Early Season Ratings
- MLB Teams To Iron Out Local Streaming Rights Deals With RSNs
- Yankees Strike YES Network Streaming Deal With Amazon
- Mets In Talks To Sell 80% Of Team To Investor Steve Cohen
- Counter-Strike World Champions Aim For First Esport Team IPO
- Epic Games Announces $15M Fortnite Winter Royale Duos Event For December
- Tencent Announces $5M In Prize Pool Money For 2020 PUBG Mobile Ecosystem
- Bilibili To Pay $113M For League Of Legends World Championships Media Rights In China
- Twitch Streamer ZeRo Jumps Ship To Facebook Gaming
- Minecraft Is Most Popular Game On YouTube In 2019 With 100B Views
- Riot Launches Publishing Label To Create Even More League Of Legends Games
- Halo Is Steam’s Top-Selling Game As It Finally Launches On PC
- Creators Of ‘My Favorite Murder’ Podcast Land A Deal With Scripps’s Stitcher Unit
- Music-Rights Group Behind Drake, Springsteen Wins Justice Department Backing In Radio Spat
- Here Comes The Merch: Sony Strikes Deal For Beatles Memorabilia
Executive Moves
- Google Founders Larry Page And Sergey Brin Exit Alphabet Exec Suite, Hand CEO Reins To Google’s Sundar Pichai
- Google Hires Senior Assassin's Creed Developers To Build Stadia Games
- Comcast Chief Diversity Officer David Cohen To Step Down
- Frontier CEO McCarthy Steps Down; Han Named As New CEO And President
- Imagine Entertainment CEO Rich Battista Has Left The Company After Just Months On The Job
- Georgie Hurford-Jones Named Universal TV Alternative Studio’s Exec VP Of Current Programming
- Netflix Shakes Up Creative Leadership In Southeast Asia
- Ole Obermann Joins TikTok As Vice President, Global Head Of Music
- Spotify Now Has An Actual Head Of Hits, As Ned Monahan Joins From Interscope
- Jeff Vaughn Named President Of Capitol Records
- Sony Music Names Senior Execs Leading Global Podcasting Expansion
- David Pemsel Resigns As Premier League CEO Before Starting Role
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