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Paramount Global has secured about $24 billion in equity financing from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and sovereign wealth funds from Abu Dhabi and Qatar to fund its $81 billion cash takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The signed commitments provide a key portion of the financing needed for the merger, with the investors forgoing voting rights to ease regulatory scrutiny.
Christian Contemporary Music network K-Love has agreed to acquire WFCC, a classical music station serving Cape Cod and Nantucket. The sale is pending FCC approval, with both parties committed to the transaction. Deal terms were not disclosed.
New York‑based FatBeats, owned by Rostrum Pacific, announced the acquisition of Massachusetts‑based Traffic Entertainment Group and its direct‑to‑consumer imprint Get On Down. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, merges three entities with a combined 50 years of experience...
South Korean game developer SHIFT UP announced the full acquisition of Tokyo‑based studio UNBOUND, founded by Shinji Mikami. The deal integrates UNBOUND’s development team into SHIFT UP’s console and PC pipeline and gives SHIFT UP publishing rights for UNBOUND’s upcoming...
ESPN officially assumed control of NFL Network on Wednesday, completing a deal that also gave the NFL a 10% equity stake in ESPN. The transaction consolidates sports media assets under ESPN, with ESPN as the acquirer and NFL Network as...
Screen Australia confirmed a $20.4 million investment across 91 narrative projects, including new seasons of Little J & Big Cuz, The Funeral Singer, and several feature films and short animations. The funding supports production and development, marking the agency’s return...
Fanon, a fandom storytelling platform founded in 2024, announced a $1 million pre‑seed round co‑led by Kalaari Capital and Gruhas. The funding will be used to scale its user base, develop monetisation tools for fan creators, and expand product, marketing, and...
Magic Light Pictures has completed the acquisition of Wild Child Animation’s assets and production pipeline, establishing the wholly‑owned Stirling Animation Studio to finish the Zog preschool series for the BBC. The move safeguards jobs and ensures uninterrupted production of the...
TSL, a provider of media control workflow solutions, announced the acquisition of JLCooper Electronics, a maker of professional control, automation and synchronization products. The deal secures JLCooper’s brand after founder Jim Cooper’s death and integrates its interfaces into TSL’s Hummingbird...
Disney’s 20th Century Studios announced it has acquired the film rights to Jennifer Probst’s novel 'The Marriage Bargain', to be produced by Entangled Publishing’s new production company Premeditated Productions. The deal, reported on March 30, 2026, involves 20th Century Studios...
Cineflix Rights closed a slate of international deals for over 400 hours of content, with Mediaset España and Discovery Latin America acquiring new seasons of the Property Brothers franchise. The buyers secured the spin‑off Property Brothers: Under Pressure and Discovery...
Paramount (the parent of BET+) completed the acquisition of the remaining minority stake in BET+, prompting the streaming service to shut down and merge its content into Paramount+. The deal consolidates BET+ content into the larger Paramount+ library, streamlining distribution...
MHz Choice, the SVOD service of Kino Lorber, has secured exclusive North American distribution rights to the South African limited series ‘Cousins’ from MultiChoice. The nine‑episode true‑crime drama will launch on MHz Choice on Aug. 11, 2026.
Singapore‑based August Media Group announced it will co‑produce the animated feature ‘Malika: Warrior Queen’ and finance up to one‑third of its production and marketing costs. The film, created by Nigerian filmmaker Roye Okupe and based on his graphic‑novel series, will...
Primary Wave announced a strategic investment in POPS Music, a leading Vietnamese music company with a catalog of over 45,000 recordings and millions of users. The capital infusion and resources aim to accelerate POPS's catalog growth across Southeast Asia. Deal...
