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Dylan Byers August 9, 2023
Notes on ESPN’s $1.5 billion gambling deal with Penn.
Dylan Byers August 2, 2023
Days after Matt’s scoop about Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ return to help their old boss, the town’s attention is focused precisely where you’d expect it…: succession.
Former CNN anchor Christine Romans exited the network on Friday after a 24-year run.
Dylan Byers July 30, 2023
NBC and MSNBC are just as vulnerable as CNN to the inexorable decline of the linear television business. But for many in Hudson Yards, it seems, the grass is greener over at 30 Rock.
Former CNN president Jeff Zucker, who was unceremoniously removed from his position some 18 months ago.
Dylan Byers July 27, 2023
I didn’t want to write about ‘that Variety story,’ largely because it mentions me. But it’s all everyone is talking about, so here goes… Plus some news on CNN’s prime time strategy and an update on a former Zucker deputy.


CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins in 2018. The network’s primetime strategy remains tethered to Chris Licht’s decision to install Collins—an impressive political correspondent, but an inexperienced anchor—as the 9 p.m. host.
Dylan Byers July 23, 2023
Yes, yes: CNN’s troublesome leader is gone, but a low-lying anxiety about the future nevertheless remains quite intact.
John Harris is return to Politico as the outlet’s first-ever global editor-in-chief.
Dylan Byers July 19, 2023
The return of John Harris to the top of Politico signals that the scrappiness and the ambitions of the old days may be back again—and now turbo-charged by Axel Springer’s war chest, and their own deep desire for influence.
No one anticipated that Bob Iger was going to go on national television and effectively hang a “For Sale” sign on ABC’s door.
Dylan Byers July 14, 2023
Scenes from Sun Valley as Disney wades further into its “everything’s on the table” era.
Dylan Byers July 12, 2023
Andreessen’s weird screed, the Iger news ricochet, and all the intrigue and high school cliques.


ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro.
Dylan Byers July 5, 2023
Yes, everyone knows that ESPN has been quietly downsizing for years, but the recent talent purge highlights the growing anxiety around the business’s transformation. And yet many in the industry fear the worst is yet to come.
Dylan Byers June 29, 2023
Life inside the Fox News bunker, the Watters-Hannity-Gutfeld Cerberus, and news on Tucker Carlson’s new media ambitions.
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