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With Paramount’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery likely to soon get the go-ahead from the European Union, the next question will be whether the U.K.’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will follow suit. The prospects are that the U.K. won’t block the deal, but may throw in an extra hurdle, according to […]
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The World Cup had been an enormously popular event with surprisingly limited commercial significance; the 1990 tournament in Italy, for instance, lost money for broadcasters. Then the World Cup came to the US in 1994 and everything changed.
On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Joey D’Urso, author of More Than A Shirt, joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal to discuss how advertisements and sponsorships by American corporations like McDonalds and General Motors in the 1994 World Cup changed
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Disney+ has picked up “The Great White,” ABC Australia’s upcoming legal workplace drama series from See-Saw Films, the Mediawan-owned banner behind “Slow Horses,” for the U.K. Headlined by Hugo Weaving, the anticipated six-part show has been filming in Sydney since the beginning of June and will wrap at the end of August. Mediawan Rights, the sales […]
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Will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas frontman and tech entrepreneur, said he’s more “worried about human greed” than about musicians being replaced by robots. “Right now is the time for the dreamer, not the regurgitator of yesterday’s imaginations — new imagination because AI is not doing imagination yet, and so we have the chance to dream […]
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BBC Sport
Watch the best shots from New Zealand captain Tom Latham as he hits a "fabulous" century against England on day one of the third Test at Trent Bridge.
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Trump gets to grips with ‘extremely liberal’ new kid who’s already roasting Kemi Badenoch on XUK politics live – latest updatesYou know you’ve arrived as the prime minister-in-waiting when even Donald Trump has heard of you. Well, sort of. The name rings a vague bell. Call it a start in the new era of the not-so-special relationship.On Sunday, the US president had the idea of announcing Keir Starmer’s resignation, long before the prime minister had got round to doing it himself. Trump likes to g
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A popular gauge of the US airline industry has finally recovered from pandemic-era losses after six years, as progress on a peace deal between US and Iran pushed oil prices lower and eased the pressure on carriers’ profitability.