Dade Hayes

1 week ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Dade Hayes

Dade Hayes29 May 2025 at 1:34 pm·2-min readStarz reversed recent U.S. subscriber losses in its fiscal fourth quarter, but disclosed a restructuring charge of $177.4 million due to a “reassessment” of its content portfolio. The report by the streaming programmer follows a quarterly earnings release last week from Lionsgate, which swung to a profit in the period ended March 31 on sharply higher revenue. The split of Starz and the film and TV studio became official in early May.

1 week ago | deadline.com | Dade Hayes

Reed Hastings, executive chairman and co-founder of Netflix, has joined the board of directors of fast-growing AI firm Anthropic. The company, which has been valued at north of $60 billion in recent fundraising, said its Long Term Benefit Trust selected Hastings because it valued his experience. The exec stepped down as Co-CEO of Netflix in 2023 after leading the streaming giant since its DVD-by-mail days and has previously served on the boards of Facebook, Microsoft, and Bloomberg.

1 week ago | deadline.com | Dade Hayes

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Marchese, a veteran ad exec and investor who once headed up sales at Fox Networks Group, has joined the board of directors at live entertainment firm Breakaway. As a director for the owner of the largest domestic touring music festival, Marchese plans to help shepherd an upfront process aimed at experiential marketers. Breakaway's experiential upfront is in the works for 2026, likely for the early spring before the major blitz of TV and streaming upfronts in mid-May.

2 weeks ago | deadline.com | Dade Hayes

Around the Horn host Tony Reali opened the show's 4,953rd and final episode Friday with a nod to GoodFellas and closed it with an invitation to viewers to find him on his new YouTube channel. "As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a sportscaster," he began, tweaking the immortal Henry Hill kickoff to Martin Scorsese's gangster classic. A handheld camera then followed him around the control room and backstage area of the show's set at ESPN 's studios at New York City's South Street Seaport.

2 weeks ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Dominic Patten |Dade Hayes

Corporate poaching never goes over well with Disney and even less so when they lose a key executive like Justin Connolly to the likes of the ever dominating YouTube. Which means, after 20 years at the Walt Disney Company in various capacities, and a 2024 inked employment contract, presumed lifer Connolly is now finding his sudden segue to the Google-owned social media and online video sharing platform a bit bumpier than expected.