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Los Angeles – September 12, 2026 -- Paramount Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY) filed reply briefs pressing a district court to enforce a bond requirement against State Attorneys General and the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the two plaintiffs blocking its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD). The company says it has cleared regulatory approval in 69 jurisdictions and satisfied all closing conditions, leaving the pending lawsuits as the sole barrier to completing the transaction.

Paramount quantifies delay costs at up to $1.88 billion

The filing states Paramount provided unrebutted evidence that ticking fees and incremental financing costs tied to the closing delay could reach $1.88 billion. Paramount's briefs assert that plaintiffs have not disputed this figure or otherwise contested that the company will suffer financial injury from the court's no-close order.

Miami – September 12, 2026 -- WLRN Public Media has named Tom Hudson as permanent Chief Executive Officer following a nationwide search, ending his tenure as Interim CEO and triggering a reshuffle of the organization's flagship programming.

Board confirms Hudson after nationwide leadership search

South Florida Public Media Group Board Chair Cheryl Wilke said Hudson combines journalistic integrity, collaboration and innovation needed to guide WLRN through what she called a critical period for public media. Hudson will oversee WLRN's television, radio, digital, journalism and community engagement operations across Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties.

New York and Munich – September 12, 2026 -- Cataneo GmbH, a division of Brand Engagement Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNAI), will showcase its AI-enhanced MYDAS enterprise media platform at IBC2026, the global broadcast and technology exhibition running September 11-14 at RAI Amsterdam.

MYDAS already manages ad inventory across 1,000-plus media brands and 200-plus channels

The cloud-native platform handles advertising sales, scheduling, traffic, content management, monetization, analytics, CRM integration and real-time reporting for major global media organizations, including leading U.S. film studios.

New York – September 11, 2026 -- The McBride Rewind, a celebrity interview podcast hosted by television personality Josh McBride, has signed with talent agency WME for representation in all areas and entered an exclusive distribution and monetization partnership with Nasdaq Stockholm-listed Acast.

Podcast secures dual representation to scale advertising and distribution

Acast will handle global distribution, advertising sales and monetization for the show, while WME will represent it across digital media, branded content, live events and other entertainment ventures. The moves come as Acast, which describes itself as the world's largest pure-play podcast company, connects more than 140,000 creators with over 4,000 advertisers globally.

St. Petersburg, Fla. – September 11, 2026 -- The Poynter Institute and Public Media Company have launched the Future of Public Media Initiative, a national effort to rebuild the U.S. public media system a year after Congress rescinded more than $1 billion in future funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Congress cut over $1 billion in CPB funding a year ago, ending five decades of support

CPB had distributed funding to a network of 1,500 public media stations for over 50 years, backing news, educational and cultural programming. The rescission left many local stations searching for new funding and operating models.

Amsterdam – September 11, 2026 -- DJI will stage the international premiere of its SDR Transmission 2 wireless video system at IBC 2026, running September 11-14 at RAI Amsterdam, booth 12.G75.

SDR Transmission 2 targets multi-camera production teams with switchable transceiver design

The new wireless video transmission system features a design that can switch between transmitter and receiver roles, a feature DJI says suits small to mid-sized film and video teams producing commercials, documentaries, short films, feature films or livestreams with multiple cameras. DJI states the system delivers improved stability, interference resistance and signal penetration over its earlier SDR technology. Full specifications will follow the product launch on September 17.

Atlanta – September 11, 2026 -- MaxPreps and iFlag will stage the inaugural MaxPreps Flag Football Showdown Sept. 11-12, 2026, bringing 18 top-ranked girls' flag football programs and more than 350 student-athletes to the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center in California.

Field pulls elite programs from California, Alabama and Montana

Teams were selected using national rankings, season performance and competitive resumes, with the roster including Central of Phenix City, Ala., JSerra Catholic, Huntington Beach and Newport Harbor. Four nationally ranked individual players are set to compete: No. 1 Makena Cook and No. 2 Ava Irwin of Sierra Canyon, No. 6 Tessa Russell of JSerra Catholic and No. 8 Savannah Sevier of Central of Alabama.

Berlin – September 11, 2026 -- German digital media outlet NIUS drew more than 1.3 million viewers for its special broadcast covering the Saxony-Anhalt state election, marking one of the largest audiences recorded for live digital political coverage in Germany.

YouTube live audience peaks at 135,000 concurrent viewers

At the broadcast's peak, over 135,000 viewers watched simultaneously on YouTube alone. NIUS' YouTube channel logged more than 5.2 million total viewers in July, according to the company.

NIUS Live becomes Germany's largest daily livestream

Over the past seven days, NIUS Live averaged 32,357 concurrent viewers per episode, positioning it as the largest livestream in Germany by the company's account. The program airs daily starting at 6 a.m.

Amsterdam – – September 11, 2026 -- NetActuate has moved its 2026 C-Band Transition Acceleration Program onto the NetActuate Media Substrate, a transport layer the company is introducing at IBC 2026, giving U.S. broadcasters a terrestrial path off C-band satellite ahead of a federally mandated spectrum auction.

Broadcasters get a redundant path without buying a second circuit

The program, first announced at NAB, now runs on infrastructure NetActuate already operates. A station group sends one stream and receives one stream while the company runs diverse paths beneath it. In a blackout test cited by the company, one path was taken fully dark and the merged output lost no data.

Amsterdam – September 11, 2026 -- NetActuate today launched the Media Substrate, a managed transport layer that runs redundant paths for contribution-grade live video across more than 45 global locations, available immediately in the company's Customer Portal ahead of IBC 2026.

Broadcasters send one stream while NetActuate manages dual paths beneath it

The service lets broadcasters send a single stream and receive a single stream, while NetActuate runs diverse paths across its network, merges them at egress, and measures latency and continuity on every hop. In a blackout test cited by the company, one path was taken fully dark and the merged output lost no data.