Shari Redstone strolled onto the red carpet in New York City tonight for the premiere of Paramount Pictures IF, John Krasinski’ star-studded PG adventure that opens this weekend. She was there to support studio chief Brian Robbins.
30.04.2024 - 22:17 / deadline.com
Paramount Global, which is in the midst of corporate upheaval on a number of fronts, got a slight reprieve in one key area, extending carriage negotiations with Charter Communications.
In just the past 48 hours, the media company has seen the exit of CEO Bob Bakish, the closely watched release of first-quarter earnings and a revised acquisition offer from Skydance Media.
The expiration of the current agreement between the companies was set to expire Tuesday at midnight. The extension of talks was confirmed to Deadline by sources familiar with the negotiations. It was unclear if there would be a firm revised deadline put in place, but talks are ongoing. No on-screen crawls or ominous email warnings to customers have yet been deployed, signaling that the parties are aiming to reach a settlement without fireworks – at least as of now.
A lot is at stake for both companies. Charter, which operates the Spectrum pay-TV and broadband brand, recently leapfrogged Comcast to become the No. 1 pay-TV operator in the U.S. Wall Street analysts as well as participants in an expected M&A transaction are paying close attention to the Charter talks and the company’s transitory state has made an outage on Charter unthinkable.
The Stamford, CT-based company last August didn’t hesitate to take advantage of its scale. It wound up gaining the upper hand in a widely tracked dispute with Disney, which unfolded at a key time as U.S. Open tennis and college football was airing on ESPN and local ABC stations. The 10-day blackout that resulted left millions of customers in the dark and by the end of the showdown, the deal reached by the parties established a new template for pay-TV providers. Charter dropped major networks like Freeform and others
Shari Redstone strolled onto the red carpet in New York City tonight for the premiere of Paramount Pictures IF, John Krasinski’ star-studded PG adventure that opens this weekend. She was there to support studio chief Brian Robbins.
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