Coverage Notes

"I'm Chris Myers, along with Brady Quinn, who is stepping in for Mark Sanchez. And obviously, we all want to send out our thoughts and prayers to Mark and those involved in Friday's incident..."

Chris Myers, Brady Quinn ahead of Raiders-Colts on Fox.

'Fox NFL Sunday' acknowledges the Mark Sanchez incident, with Curt Menefee offering this brief statement roughly 10 minutes into the show.

Obviously far, far less important here:

Brady Quinn will now be the analyst on the Colts-Raiders game.

TMZ: Fox analyst Mark Sanchez hospitalized after stabbing Fox NFL analyst Mark Sanchez has been hospitalized in critical condition after being stabbed overnight in Indianapolis, according to TMZ.

TMZ is saying that Fox NFL analyst Mark Sanchez has been hospitalized after being stabbed in Indianapolis, where he was scheduled to cover tomorrow's Colts game. www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/10/mark...

CNN Max live news stream to end Nov. 1 CNN will discontinue its live news stream on HBO Max Nov. 17, 2025, as it ... Read More

CNN Max live news stream to end Nov. 1 https://nca.st/BWC0p

Paramount Nears a Deal to Buy Bari Weiss’s Free Press Ms. Weiss, a co-founder of the site, would become editor in chief of CBS News, people briefed on the talks said.

Paramount is expected to announce a deal as soon as Monday to buy The Free Press, uniting CBS News with the upstart digital publisher, according to three people briefed on the talks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

NBC Sports, Peacock Stay on YouTube TV With Long-Term Deal NBC Sports parent NBCUniversal and YouTube TV have reached a long-term distribution agreement, ending another fractious carriage battle.

NBCUniversal and YouTube TV reached a long-term distribution deal, averting a blackout that could have impacted a big upcoming sports weekend. frontofficesports.com/nbc-sports-p...

scoop: Adam O’Neal, the new Opinion Editor at The Washington Post, is laying off staffers as part of a plan to shake up the section. A source says six employees are affected. I’ve also been told some contractors are being terminated. Here’s one email provided by a source:

FIFA Won’t Move World Cup Matches Despite Trump Remarks FIFA does not have plans to change match sites for next year’s World Cup, despite invective from President Donald Trump regarding host cities.

Donald Trump has claimed he can—and might—move World Cup matches next year. It's anything but that simple as FIFA has reaffirmed its intent to run its own tournament. frontofficesports.com/fifa-wont-mo...

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned. Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Hell Gate saw a 69% increase in subscribers in its third year of covering New York City New York City's mayoral Democratic primary this summer — in which Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani defeated disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo — captured the nation's attention, making for anot...

Hell Gate is proving that the writer-owned cooperative model can work at the local level. It's on track to hit $1 million in annual revenue by 2026. It'd be great to see its approach replicated in more cities.

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It's official: WSJ Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker announces that deputy editor in chief Charles Forelle is leaving

@businessinsider.com EIC Jamie Heller reflects on her first year: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/b...

week 5 maps are up: 506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2...

CBS Mornings Returns to the CBS Broadcast Center Since September 2021, CBS Mornings had been based out of Times Square.

New from me for @tvnewser.bsky.social: CBS News' CBS Mornings returns to its original home at the CBS Broadcast Center.
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5 Questions for… MSNBC’s Events EP Lauren Peikoff Peikoff previews MSNBC’s last event under the NBCU umbrella.

"So much news has happened in the last year, so we’re catering the program to meet this particular moment that we’re in. What remains the same, however, is the importance of community." MSNBC Live's Lauren Peikoff on "MSNBCLIVE '25."

Read via @tvnewser.bsky.social.

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5 Questions for… MSNBC’s Events EP Lauren Peikoff Peikoff previews MSNBC’s last event under the NBCU umbrella.

New from me for @tvnewser.bsky.social: Spoke to MSNBC's EP of events Lauren Peikoff ahead of this month's live community event.
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Packers-Cowboys Draws 26.9M Viewers, NFL’s No. 3 Game of ‘25 NBC Sports treated last weekend’s “Sunday Night Football” game like a mini–Super Bowl and was rewarded with massive viewership.

The 40-40 Green Bay-Dallas tie on Sunday night drew the NFL's third-largest viewership so far this season. frontofficesports.com/packers-cowb...

WaPo’s Ad Chief Wavers Johanna Mayer-Jones, the executive tasked with helming The Post’s ad business, has been weighing her future at the paper—raising the prospect of another high-profile departure at a precarious moment.

Scoop: The Washington Post's ad chief has been eying an exit from the newspaper. It's an exit that, should it happen, would spell big problems for Jeff Bezos' already embattled outlet.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

WaPo’s Ad Chief Wavers Johanna Mayer-Jones, the executive tasked with helming The Post’s ad business, has been weighing her future at the paper—raising the prospect of another high-profile departure at a precarious moment.

According to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social in tonight's Status, Paramount's purchase of The Free Press is imminent and will be announced in the next few days, with Bari Weiss being named the editor in chief of CBS News.

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NFL Dance Partners & Legacy Media War Cries Super-analyst Michael Nathanson offers a candid view of the sports rights dialectic taking place between the legacy media companies, who need these games more than ever, and the hyperscalers with all ...

Legacy media conglomerates are more reliant than ever on sports broadcasting, but they now face competition from the world’s largest tech giants—companies with tens of billions in cash reserves—to secure those rights. It’s an arms race the media companies can’t hope to win in the long run, yet they

Why Boeing decided not to fly the X-66 An obituary for NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator

Is Boeing conceptualizing a new commercial aircraft to replace the 737? Yep, but there’s a lot of homework to be done first. theaircurrent.com/technology/b...

USA, now part of Versant, officially gets separate WNBA rights deal USA, which acquired WNBA rights while still part of NBCUniversal last year, has officially reached its own separate contract with the league.

USA Network, now part of Versant, officially gets its own separate WNBA rights deal. Had previously acquired WNBA rights as part of NBCU's NBA deal last year. www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/09/wnba...

Warner Bros. just pulled off something no studio has done in years: a slate stacked with originals that actually worked.
@richardrushfield.bsky.social on why a year of hits and a few misses adds up to a win for film's future
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Sunday’s game was the most-watched BlueJays regular season game ever with an average audience of 2.36 million.

The population of all of Canada is 41 million.

Kimmel & The Disney+ Cancellation Epidemic Beyond the shabby politics and Hollywood outrage, Disney’s decision to reinstate its late-night host was also evidence that “churn events” matter more than ever.

Disney+/Hulu cancellations during the first 5 days of the Jimmy Kimmel standoff exceeded Netflix's blowups over Cuties in 2020 and Reed Hastings' donation to Kamala Harris in 2024, per new data shared with @loudmouthjulia.bsky.social. ⬇️⬇️ puck.news/did-the-jimm...

Politico hires CNBC's Doherty - Talking Biz News Politico has hired Erin Doherty as a polling and campaigns reporter. She has been at CNBC covering politics and general news and previously was at Axios as a politics reporter covering breaking news a...

@erindoherty.bsky.social departs @cnbc.com for @politico.com: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/p...

Women’s Rugby World Cup Final Scores Win With Viewers Saturday afternoon was another wonderful moment for women’s sport in England. The country’s Women’s Rugby Team became world champions for the third time. And they did it in front of record numbers. According to the BBC, the Red Roses’ 33-13 victory over Canada was watched by 5.8 million people across TV and streaming. There were 81,885 people at Twickenham for the match, the second-highest total ever for a rugby World Cup final - men or women.

Women’s Rugby World Cup Final Scores Win With Viewers

Saturday afternoon was another wonderful moment for women’s sport in England. The country’s Women’s Rugby Team became world champions for the third time. And they did it in front of record numbers. According to the BBC, the Red Roses’ 33-13…