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Thursday, September 24, 2026

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At the close · Sep 24

Paramount

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A cluster of video screens mounted on a multi-sided tower in a darkened hall, each panel showing a different image, with the silhouettes of several people watching from the left.
Streaming

Ten Streaming Services Disappeared Last Quarter. None of Them Took an Audience With It.

Two trade outlets reported this week that standalone streaming services are in decline in the United States and that the market is consolidating. Both stories trace to a single press release issued on 23 September by Parks Associates, a research firm in Plano, Texas. The number underneath is a count of apps — ten removed from the tracker in the second quarter, two added — and it says almost nothing about where Americans watched television.

By Thomas Gutierrez  

The Warner Bros. Studios water tower rising behind the perimeter wall of the studio lot in Burbank.
The Numbers

Paramount Settles With the States Nine Days Before the Meter Starts

Paramount Skydance has settled the antitrust suit twelve states brought against its $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery. The remedies are promises about behaviour: thirty films a year in cinemas, with $30 million owed for each one short. The number that explains the timing is a different one. From 1 October, every day the deal stays open costs Paramount about $7 million.

By Cory Chamberlain