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Miss something this week? Don’t panic. CBC’s Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need. Want this in your inbox? Get the Marketplace newsletter every Friday. Paramount Skydance makes $108B US hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix move WATCH | Netflix bid raises concerns: Could Netflix’s Warner Bros. Discovery deal …
Read More »Paramount gets UFC streaming rights in U.S. with $7.7B deal
Skydance-owned Paramount will become the exclusive U.S. home of Ultimate Fighting Championship under a seven-year streaming deal valued at about $7.7 billion US, the first major strategic move by the newly merged media giant under new CEO David Ellison. Starting next year, Paramount+ will carry the complete U.S. slate of …
Read More »WATCH | Paramount+ brings UFC to streaming, nabs a growing audience
Paramount+ outbid its larger competitors to earn the streaming rights for UFC, bringing the platform a growing audience of 100 million in the U.S. alone. News Source link
Read More »Quebec to impose French-language quotas on streaming giants
Quebec Culture Minister Mathieu Lacombe tabled a bill today that would force streaming giants to add French-language content and make it more easily accessible to users. Bill 109, titled An Act to affirm the cultural sovereignty of Quebec and to enact the Act respecting the discoverability of French-language cultural content in the digital environment, has been …
Read More »Netflix and other streaming services now blocked on federal government networks
Federal government employees are no longer able to stream Netflix, Disney+ and other streaming services while at work. The government agency responsible for providing IT services, Shared Services Canada (SSC), confirmed in an email that it blocked the streaming sites on all networks it manages late last year. Though there …
Read More »How the Hollywood actors strike may impact Canada’s film, TV industries
Canada’s film and television community is bracing for more job uncertainty amid a Hollywood actors’ strike that observers say has the potential to throw more people out of work, upend TV schedules and dim the wattage of celeb-studded events like the Toronto International Film Festival. The decision by the Screen …
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