Tom Lowry

1 week ago | thewrap.com | Tom Lowry

Office With a View: The CEO of iHeart Media, the co-founder of MTV and former top AOL-Time Warner exec also says he loves ad-supported audio podcasts because it’s just “radio on demand” May 29, 2025 @ 2:17 PM Bob Pittman (Christopher Smith for TheWrap) For someone who started out as a wunderkind teenage DJ at AM station WCHJ in his native Mississippi, Bob Pittman, now 71, is having the last laugh as chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia Inc., the country’s largest radio company with nearly 900...

3 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Tom Lowry

Charter Communications and Cox Enterprises on Friday said they are merging in a $34.5 billion deal, creating a juggernaut in cable and Wi-Fi.The proposed merger comes as cable providers continue to bleed video subscribers and look to have more scale into their more stable broadband businesses. The announcement is the rare M&A deal this year, when a topsy-turvy stock market and economics news have kept companies on the sidelines.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tom Lowry

By now, viewers are overly familiar with the two main streaming release models: there’s the traditional one-episode-a-week strategy, and then there’s the go-big binge model. While the binge model has its positives, the Samba TV Weekly Wrap streaming chart shows that the tried and true one-at-a-time model has succeeded in building buzz and keeping streaming shows lodged on the chart.

3 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Tom Lowry |Haleigh Foutch

Pro Available to WrapPRO members HBO’s hit video game adaptation claims another week at No. 1 for Max May 15, 2025 @ 12:56 PM Bella Ramsey in "The Last of Us" Season 2, Episode 4 (Liane Hentscher/HBO) By now, viewers are overly familiar with the two main streaming release models: there’s the traditional one-episode-a-week strategy, and then there’s the go-big binge model. While the binge model has its positives, the Samba TV Weekly Wrap streaming chart shows that the tried and true...

2 months ago | thewrap.com | Tom Lowry

Pro Available to WrapPRO members Experts say financial pain will come through a broader blow to the economy, from higher production costs to fewer ad dollars to pinched consumers avoiding theaters April 4, 2025 @ 6:00 AM (Christopher Smith for TheWrap) The entertainment industry woke up on Thursday to the reality that its turn of the economic corner is more elusive than ever. President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs against 180 countries sent global markets reeling, with U.S. stocks seeing...