The Latest Breaking News from Robert Fishman

The FCC has approved Paramount Global’s $8 billion merger with Skydance Media. Wall Street still recommends staying away from Paramount stock.

As streaming giant Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) gears up for its second-quarter earnings on Thursday, MoffettNathanson analyst Robert Fishman says investors should look forward to a strong performance, led by price hikes and early momentum in the platform’s advertising business.

Also in this week’s ‘Next Text,’ we ponder AMC’s long, slow march to irrelevance, the power of bundles, and Mario Gabelli’s quest to put Shari Redstone in a fishbowl

National Amusements, which owns a majority voting stake in the embattled entertainment giant Paramount Global, says it has ended talks on a possible merger of Paramount with movie production company Skydance Media

Statement from family holding company says they were ‘not able to reach mutually acceptable terms'

Also in this week's 'Next Text,' we salute joyful NBA legends and super-sizers of media innovation, kick the tires on Paramount's new carriage deal with Charter ... and kick yet more dirt at Zaz

Despite a significant ramp-up, WBD will get fewer NBA games as part of its next deal, MofettNathanson's Robert Fishman also forecasts

Growth coming from sports, streamers, MoffettNathanson’s Robert Fishman finds

The high degree of overlap of CBS and Nickelodeon content between Paramount Plus and Paramount linear channels will make carving out a Disney-like bundling deal with the top U.S. pay TV operator tricky, says Lightshed Partners' Richard Greenfield