Why Amazon’s rescue of Diamond Sports mostly benefits Amazon and why Thompson’s vision for CNN is shaking up TV news.

Plus a look at the GOP debates, with insights from Inscape

Why CNN Max is not going to cannibalize CNN OG (but which one will be the alpha) and why old players are getting out and new players are getting in to the daytime syndication game.

All about The Gauge’s “Other” category and why nomenclature matters + the vested interest print journos have in cable news.

So far, arraignment days have seen more cable news tune-in than indictment days, per Inscape.

‘Barbie’ may be big for Warner Bros. Discovery, but plenty of questions remain after its Q2 earnings. Analysts gave the company credit for major progress on its mountain of debt, but sustainability is still far in the future.

WBD is adding a live CNN feed to Max…overseas. Why they can’t do that in the US and why Roku and Paramount’s motorsports deal looks like the future of live sports on the FASTs.

Why getting rid of Chris Licht doesn’t really solve any of CNN’s meta issues and why Google and Meta should be very afraid of an ad-supported Amazon Prime.

Streaming brings changes to the television industry that no amount of protesting can remedy, WBD gets streaming into the black but CNN remains a problem.

NBA games captured 4.50% of all live, linear minutes watched April 24-30, per Inscape.

Cable news may have captured headlines this week but the long-term prognosis is grim.

The future of cable news is streaming. We examine what that might look like, while offering Netflix some tips on handling their upcoming password sharing crackdown.

Much of the recent drama about cable news is focused on ratings, a concept much of the industry now regards as quaint. Is that a signal of end times or something else?

Which brands advertised against Election Night coverage this year?

Data from Tubular Labs shows CNN social video viewers are likely shopping Amazon for chicken and turkey products (among other categories).

Jason Kilar departs WarnerMedia days after launching CNN Plus, and days before merging with Discovery. Will CNN Plus survive the merger, given the crushing debt and need for major cuts facing CEO-in-Waiting David Zaslav? Kilar says it’s not broken, don’t fix it. But the clock is ticking.

Just as the first Gulf War effectively birthed CNN as a global 24-hour news network, so could the Russian invasion of Ukraine provide a path to its rebirth. 

The Big Three cable news networks have all seen big names depart in the past two weeks, part of a crucial period of realignment as they prepare to transition to their streaming future. And the questions are just as plentiful for local broadcast news organizations too.

Just how big would a Discovery/WarnerMedia company be? A look at the combined footprint on social video and TV.