Dan Thomas

Channel 4 raids Sky for new chief executive Priya Dogra set to take over from former boss Alex Mahon with announcement expected as early as this week

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SCOOP w/ @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social: Channel 4 is set to appoint Sky advertising supremo Priya Dogra as its next chief executive. Announcement could come as early as tomorrow for the public service broadcaster.

Kushner, Gulf money and desperate texts: inside Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros Ellisons approach was rebuffed over concerns about financial backing from China and Middle East sovereign funds

Kushner, Gulf money and desperate texts: inside Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros on.ft.com/4aEEH1P

How Netflix stole Warner Bros from David Ellison [FREE TO READ] Old-guard Hollywood underestimated streaming pioneer that has upended the industry over two decades

Netflix boss Ted Sarandos keeps a replica of Rosebud, the childhood sled at the heart of the Warner Bros’ film Citizen Kane, hanging in his home. Now he gets to own the whole studio.

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Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain

Daily Mail's parent company agrees a deal to buy Telegraph for £500m! Media consolidation, let's go, ya gonna blink and stop this competition regulators? Over to you, Nandy? Strong potential everyone just waves the sale through to STOP HAVING TO READ OR THINK ABOUT IT. www.ft.com/content/cd8e...

Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain

Daily Mail owner DMGT has struck a £500mn deal to buy rival newspaper The Telegraph in a tie-up that would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain, confirming our scoop last week w/ @JFK_America

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BBC board member resigns Shumeet Banerji’s departure is latest blow to the corporation

Scoop: Shumeet Banerji has resigned from the BBC board in the latest blow to the corporation since the resignation of its director-general two weeks ago.

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Scoop: Paramount is in advanced talks to acquire Champions League TV rights in the UK and other major European markets in major bet on sports rights outside the US and blow to incumbent broadcasters. Story coming soon on FT.com

Wimbledon debenture tickets set to secure exemption from UK resale crackdown Organisers of the tennis tournament warned that a price cap would damage its funding model

Samuel Agini + @danielthomasldn.bsky.social: Wimbledon Debenture #Tickets Set To Secure Exemption From UK Resale Crackdown | @financialtimes.com

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Rare chance to get Mogwai on the front page of the FT this morning in this scoop with @pickardje.bsky.social

Saint Etienne's Pete Wiggs & Sarah Cracknell

Can I recommend the joy of listening to St Etienne talking in this podcast? I l listened over the weekend and what a lovely conversation between two old friends.

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UK to ban resale of tickets above face value for live events Aggressive crackdown on touts comes after backlash over cost of watching live music and sport

Scoop with @PickardJE: the UK will outlaw rip off ticket touts by fixing prices at face value ..

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Scoop: Lord Rothermere’s DMGT, the owner of the Daily Mail, has already expressed interest in buying the Telegraph (having been a minority partner).

Lord Rothermere has long ambitions to bring together the two rightwing British newspapers.

RedBird has confirmed to the FT that it will "withdraw its bid", saying: "We remain fully confident that the Telegraph and its world-class team have a bright future ahead of them".

Which is fairly magnanimous of them considering the coverage of RedBird by the Telegraph.

Telegraph sale to RedBird collapses [FREE TO READ] US private equity group walked away due to regulatory uncertainty and negative commentary from newspaper

The telegraph has been for sale for three years on.ft.com/4oGV6Hu

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The £500mn sale of the Telegraph to US private equity firm RedBird has collapsed, throwing the future of the newspaper into question as it enters its third year without an owner

Donald Trump threatens to sue BBC for $1bn over January 6 speech edit Broadcaster’s chair admits ‘error of judgement’ over clip but hits out at memo that prompted bosses’ resignations

Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for at least $1bn over the edit of a speech at the heart of a crisis at the broadcaster, acc to a letter from his lawyers seen by the FT

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‘Cable cowboy’ John Malone to step down from media and telecoms empire [FREE TO READ] Tycoon is relinquishing board roles at Liberty Media and Liberty Global after buccaneering 50-year career

EXC: ‘Cable cowboy’ John Malone is to step down from his media and telecoms empire today, in an era-ending step for the American pioneer.

Malone will step down as chair of both Liberty Global and Liberty Media.

With @danielthomasldn.bsky.social

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Traffic to the largest UK site dropped 77% after the Online Safety Act was enforced this summer

Are weight loss drugs killing off the business lunch? Appetite suppressing medicines may be an unsavoury problem for restaurateurs as well as diners

Are weight loss drugs killing off the business lunch? @danielthomasldn.bsky.social and @emmavj.bsky.social rpt. www.ft.com/content/d1c5...

The boss of one of Britain’s biggest tech start-ups on the ethics of porn, the future of the content creator economy — and why the platform banned Bonnie Blue on.ft.com/4nzC8SB

If you go to to F.K.A.B.A.M. you can do bone marrow AND flatbread and then skip St Johns!

Geoff Cooper in line to be new chair of Channel 4 Current chair of retailer AO would take helm of public service broadcaster at time of intense upheaval

Geoff Cooper, chair of electrical goods retailer AO, is being lined up as the new chair of UK broadcaster Channel 4, according to several people with knowledge of the situation. Full story on ft.com with @ashleyarmstrong.bsky.social

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Geoff Cooper, chair of electrical goods retailer AO, is being lined up as the new chair of UK broadcaster Channel 4. Cooper could be announced as early as Wednesday.

At least with David Dinsmore now in the office too there will be a familar face from the Murdoch days

Related: we are going to a festival in a field for three days

Every generation has their Bez

My own Kid A is now being mocked relentlessly for saying that he and his friends spent the weekend “searching for bass” and finding said bass at a stage called .. Homebase (.. or Homebass, not clear and he is now refusing to ever again engage in conversation on this front).

Newspaper group Reach has warned staff of further job losses after unveiling a "live news network" - seemingly a single breaking news team across all its titles, from the MEN to the Mirror. An internal note describes it as "radically reorganising [the] editorial structure".