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A Dozen States Sue to Stop Paramount’s Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery

A multistate lawsuit claims the merger would lead to higher prices and fewer entertainment options for consumers.

2026-07-13T20:45:03Z

Comcast is breaking up with NBCU. Why did it ever buy it in the first place?

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into th…

2026-07-09T13:48:52Z

Bethesda teases Fallout 5 soon after Xbox’s mass layoffs

Xbox is currently in a "reset" period that includes laying off around 3,200 employees over the next year, involving deep cuts at beloved studios like id Software and Obsidian Entertainment. Now, in an attempt to show that things are still running fine, the co…

2026-07-17T14:00:38Z

The PlayStation replica ornament is an homage to a great, yet fragile console

You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it's technically a multi-part chime? There's the synthy section where "Sony Computer Entertainment" shows onscreen with a white background. You only get to the next screen with the echo…

2026-07-20T20:06:40Z

Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was. The la…

2026-07-20T22:20:34Z

Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment …

2026-08-07T18:59:46Z