With this week’s FCC approval, the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media is expected to be completed in the coming weeks at a value of $8 billion. The question for the new company is whether the psychic cost is much higher.

Former CBS News anchor Connie Chung criticized Paramount Global's merger with Skydance Media for eliminating "unbiased" journalism at her old network.

Upon the deal’s closing, Skydance and its financial partners are set inject $1.5 billion in cash into Paramount. However, that’s intended to go toward reducing Paramount’s long-term debt ($14.16 billion as of Q1 of 2025) to help stabilize its balance sheet.

Paramount’s cable business has cratered. The news division is in turmoil. A.I. is coming for movies. And those are just the obvious challenges facing David Ellison as he takes control.

Following a near two-and-a-half-year hiatus, the premiere episode shows a naked Trump trying to seduce Satan, and came a day after the show's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had reached a $1.5 billion streaming deal with Paramount.

This week, 'South Park,' Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert all savaged the same (tiny?) thing as the company faces an uprising over its small-minded handling of its legacy properties.

Now that David Ellison's Skydance has secured the keys to Paramount Global, what toys await him inside the company's intellectual property chest? After a nail-biting federal approval process that inspired backlash,

Senior Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) - soon to be the longest-serving senator in Oregon history - is back in the state for the summer recess and for a series of town halls this weekend.