
Dylan Byers
Founding Partner and Senior Correspondent at Puck
Founding Partner and Senior Correspondent at Puck. Author of In The Room and host of The Grill Room. Reach me at [email protected].
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3 days ago |
deepnewz.com | Dylan Byers
9 posts • GPT (4.1 mini)Published Jun 2, 2025, 03:55 PMMCGTNNXSTSBGIDISPARAAPARAFOXAFOXCMCSAByron Allen's Allen Media Group has initiated the process to sell its portfolio of 28 local broadcast TV stations across more than 24 markets, including affiliates of ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. The company has engaged investment bank Moelis & Company to evaluate strategic alternatives and solicit offers from potential buyers.
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6 days ago |
puck.news | Dylan Byers
On Thursday, Business Insider, the Millennial-hued business news operation owned by Mathias Döpfner’s Axel Springer, announced that it would lay off more than one-fifth of its staff and attempt to diversify its revenue streams through subscriptions, events, and A.I. licensing—a significant and jarring, step forward in the parent company’s years-long attempt to both mature the business and outrun the external threats to its model.
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1 week ago |
puck.news | Dylan Byers
On Wednesday, CNN chief executive Mark Thompson announced that David Leavy, his chief operating officer, would be leaving the network and returning to an unspecified role at the parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery. In the grand scheme of CNN’s trajectory—the impending spinoff, the inevitable shrinkage, etcetera—the news was only a mildly notable bookend to a remarkably dispiriting few years. For insiders, however, it also highlighted some of the broader curiosities about WBD’s business.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Dylan Byers
On Saturday afternoon, Paramount Global co-C.E.O. George Cheeks called Wendy McMahon, the long-embattled C.E.O. of CBS News, and informed her that the time had come to tender her resignation. Practically speaking, he was firing her. But, for the sake of her reputation and that of the company, he was officially giving her the opportunity to save face.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Dylan Byers
Greetings from Las Vegas, and welcome back to In the Room. In tonight’s email, my invariably brilliant partner Julia Alexander offers her insights on a few of the existential questions facing Brian Roberts’ and David Zaslav’s respective cable spincos: Can Versant thrive on its own when it’s seen as nothing but a drag on Comcast’s own books?
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