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By Sarah Shevenock Throughout the year, Morning Consult has tracked how current events in the news have resonated with the electorate. Our new interactive reveals what broke through in 2018 — and what didn’t. See it here. Top Stories The Federal Communications Commission is set to conduct a review of current media ownership regulations, including […]
By Sarah Shevenock Top Stories CBS News settled a lawsuit with three women who claimed that the network failed to take action when former CBS and PBS news personality Charlie Rose allegedly touched them inappropriately, sexually harassed them and threatened to fire them, according to a network spokesperson. The terms of the settlement are confidential […]
By Sarah Shevenock Morning Consult has published the latest edition of its monthly Trump Tracker, showing the president’s approval state by state, month over month. See it here. Top Stories The Walt Disney Co. is now exploring splitting up and selling the 22 regional sports networks it acquired from Fox to multiple buyers, according to […]
By Sarah Shevenock Top Stories After The Walt Disney Co.’s acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. assets and Comcast Corp.’s purchase of Sky PLC, Disney and Comcast will control close to 40 percent of all programming spending domestically and 20 percent of all programming spending globally, according to a report from Ampere Analysis. (The Wall […]
By Sarah Shevenock Top Stories After being announced as host of the 2019 Academy Awards earlier this week, actor and comedian Kevin Hart has stepped down, saying he does not want to be “a distraction” on awards night as a result of previous homophobic remarks and apologizing to the LGBTQ community for “insensitive words from […]
By Sarah Shevenock Top Stories Nominations for the 76th Annual Golden Globes were announced, with Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic “Vice” scoring six nominations, the most of any film, and “The Favourite,” “Green Book” and “A Star is Born” each earning five. On the television side, FX had the most nominations of any network, with […]
By Sarah Shevenock Top Stories A new report from lawyers hired by CBS Corp. says that former network Chief Executive Les Moonves “deliberately lied about and minimized the extent of his sexual misconduct” and destroyed evidence in an effort to keep his $120 million severance package, according to a draft seen by reporters. The findings […]
By Sarah Shevenock Top Stories The Walt Disney Co. has reached an agreement with Chairman and Chief Executive Bob Iger to more closely match his stock-based compensation with how the company is performing following blowback from shareholders earlier this year over Disney’s executive compensation plan. With this deal, Iger would be able to earn over […]
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