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Rising costs weigh on middle-class voters as election nears

Affordability is the buzzword of this election season and at the top of voters’ concerns

Oct 23 • 3:07 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Illinois Freshman Quentin Coleman Ranked 8 in Newcomer Rankings

Illinois freshman Quentin Coleman continues to generate buzz after an impressive exhibition debut against Cincinnati.

Oct 21 • 3:04 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Rochester Grange #86 Presents "The 4 P’s of Honeybee Health" on 10/24

A message from Rochester Grange #86: Rochester Grange #86 presents a no-cost community lecture in conjunction with the Seacoast Beekeeper’s Association. The 4 P’s of Honeybee Health With a focus on Pesticides Neonicotinoid pesticides are all the buzz, but what are they? How can we help our six-legged friends? Date: October 24 at 3 p.m....

Oct 21 • 1:30 AM EDT • Health • news.rochesternh.gov

This History/Science Quiz Is So Simple That There's No Reason You Shouldn't Pass

Test your knowledge of science and history!

Oct 21 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • buzzfeed.com

Former Netflix and Tubi Producer To Launch Shortee, A Vertical Streaming and Gaming App

Nelson Moses Lassiter, an Emmy-nominated producer known for his work on Netflix’s major international hits and for creating original films at Tubi, is launching his venture. Shortee, a mobile entertai...

Oct 20 • 3:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Christina Applegate Revealed A Shock Health Update After Her MS Diagnosis

Christina Applegate, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, shared some details after a monthslong hospital stay.

Oct 20 • 1:38 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com

Buzz of the Week: Do you feel like you have a political home in Utah?

Republican, Democrat, Democratic Socialist, Libertarian, Independent, something else entirely — do you feel like you have a political home in Utah? Let us know what you think.

Oct 20 • 11:37 AM EDT • Politics • sltrib.com

New Stockton-ACIT Partnership Creates Buzz About Bees

Levine, Gormley Foundations support drone work to study blueberry pollination

Oct 20 • 11:06 AM EDT • Science • stockton.edu

Xbox Series X will offer identical graphics to the base PS5 in Grand Theft Auto VI

Social media is buzzing about user XGREEN's claim that the Xbox Series X console will supposedly offer better value for money.

Oct 19 • 4:48 PM EDT • Technology • en.gamegpu.com

‘I will not comment on his anatomy’: Ohio Republicans buzz about Trump’s analysis of a senator’s body

A day after President Donald Trump offered his latest appraisal of Ohio Sen. Jon Husted’s physique, it had already become a running joke — if not explicitly stated — during a GOP gathering in rural western Ohio.

Oct 18 • 8:27 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

'Street Fighter' wins N. America box office, buzzy doc stuns in 2nd

Paramount's action film "Street Fighter" karate-chopped the competition this weekend with a $31 million debut at the North American box...

Oct 18 • 4:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • afp.com

Streaming’s Biggest Show Returns…and a Buzzy Genre Struggles

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Obviously, the big news of the week (if not month) is Netflix letting go of executive Bela Bajaria, their chief content officer. I’m going to cover this in my next “Most Important Story of the Week”, but I also have a data angle that I might publish before then. (Too much news this month, am I right?) But first, I have a bonus Streaming Ratings Report issue for you. Today’s article is a bit of a grab bag of topics I’ve wanted to write about, but couldn’t squeeze into the (already very long) Streaming Ratings Report issues. The NFL drives huge viewership numbers, so I’ve got a look at that. A whole bunch of TV shows returned to the traditional broadcast channels, and I have thoughts. And I have a quick look at adult animated shows, since a couple flopped earlier this month. Plus, the Emmys aired earlier this month, and we got some fun data bout how popular those nominated shows are and why I’m not optimistic about the show’s future. That’s a lot, so let’s dive right in. Subscribe Sports - Football Remains the King of Streaming Over the last two Streaming Ratings Reports, I sorta ignored the biggest “show” each week. (I was tempted to say “piece of content” but I know that word bugs folks.) In my database, I call these “specials”, and they sure are special. I speak of the king of American TV: football!!! Streaming football is back and, unlike some other sports, it routinely dominates all viewership. Probably the best way to show this is to update one of my favorite graphics, the “40 Million Hour Club”1 since football games have joined that club each week they’ve premiered: (Yep, that’s the data through 28-Sep, the first four weeks of the season. As a reminder, I take the average minute audience provided by Nielsen, factor out a percentage of linear TV viewers in home markets, and multiply the run time by the three-hour runtime.) Again, the numbers are huge. Let’s start with Netflix. They grabbed the rights to the bonus opening week NFL Kickoff game (which was on YouTube last year) and it put up 18.5 million viewers on average. That nets out to 47.4 million hours of estimated streaming hours. That’s good! Though, notably, it’s well below Christmas Day games from previous years. Compared to other streamers/broadcasters, that’s a bit of a mixed result. On one hand, Netflix’s 18.5 million average is about what YouTube claimed last year, though Nielsen used a bespoke methodology at that time, so I trust this viewership figure more. So that’s good. (The game also shifted from a Friday to a Thursday and that could have helped the viewership as well.) And Netflix continues to best Prime Video in total viewership—as you’ll see next—though Netflix has had much higher-profile (opening week and Christmas Day) games. NBC/Peacock’s opening game the night before averaged 25.1 million average viewers, which is just much bigger than Netflix (or Prime Video). That’s the big caveat to all streaming viewership records: even in success, they can’t compete with traditional linear TV. Previously, I called this my “hierarchy of viewership”, and the data keeps supporting that thesis. The downside for NBC is that this game’s viewership was down compared to previous years, though it may be a counting issue. Here’s a great chart from Sports Media Watch: Indeed, looking at all the opening week games across all windows, Netflix still lags the other primetime windows, but does well compared to the afternoon games: I saw a few folks make the case that streamers still lag traditional broadcasters in reach, and I’d add they really lag compared to “broadcast plus streaming” options like NBC/Peacock, ESPN/Disney+ and CBS/Paramount+. The best data I saw for this came from Samba TV, who charted reach through the 2025 season, and, wow. (Samba TV’s numbers are historically lower than Nielsen’s, so don’t compare their household figures to Nielsen’s hours, but use them as a proxy for the relative reach of the streamers.) The good news is Prime Video is NOT having a down year. Their opening Thursday Night Football game reached 18.6 million viewers (about what Netflix got), but that’s a high for Prime Video on Thursdays and the biggest Thursday night game since 2015. The TNF games the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep continued this streak, getting 43.1 (16.8 million average viewers) and 42.5 total hours (16.6 million average viewers), which were both up from last year. Still, that continues the (typical) season slide: (For those new-to-streaming-football-numbers folks, the viewership declines for Thursday Night Football as the year goes along.) Overall, it appears as if Prime Video is now part of the “football habit”, be it for customers at home or out at places like bars and restaurants. And its viewership is slowly catching up to broadcast. One last chart shows this. Last season, Nielsen started adding out-of-home viewership to the charts, so I try not to do season-to-season comparisons as I did for the first few years. And while Nielsen added Big Data viewing this year, I’m going to compare the last two seasons. Here’s that chart, which shows the season-over-season gains: When it comes to streaming football, we have to keep a few seemingly contradictory thoughts in our head… First, streaming doesn’t come close to matching broadcast’s reach and, thus, viewership. Second, even with that gap, football is still the biggest “thing” on streaming. It’s very, very popular. Third, while some methodology changes have likely helped Prime Video’s numbers, their viewership does appear to be growing. Lastly, yeah, the NFL started the season off poorly, with week one dragging down the numbers in year-over-year comparisons. However—and again, methodology changes may have helped this—the viewership grew compared to previous seasons over the next couple of weeks. So football is still king. On streaming and off. Television - Adult Animation Continues to NOT Make the Streaming Charts In the last two reports, two adult-animated shows whiffed: Netflix’s animated comedy, Dang! Paramount+’s Sega-video-game-inspired fantasy/comedy, Golden Axe. Neither made the charts, but that’s usually the case for animated shows. I mean, here’s literally every animated show that’s made the Nielsen Original charts since the start of 2025: And one of those shows is G_abby’s Dollhouse_! A kids show! The problem with charts like this is that they don’t give you a sense of how many shows miss the charts. Netflix had at least eleven animated flops, including comedies like Big Mouth (a show everyone assumed was popular in the pre-Streaming Ratings Era), Long Story Short, Haunted Hotel, Mating Season, Strip Law, and Alley Cats, and action shows like Blood of Zeus, Castlevania: Nocturne, Devil May Cry, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft. Prime Video had at least six animated misses, two in the same universe (Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss), three more comedies (#1 Happy Family USA, The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy and Kevin) and an action show (The Mighty Nein). Disney+ had MCU and Star Wars animated misses (Eyes of Wakanda, Marvel Zombies, Star Wars: Visions, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, and Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld) but I can’t tell how many of those shows were geared towards adults. HBO Max had Harley Quinn and Hulu had Solar Opposites. None of these shows made the charts! That’s a lot of misses! If I remade the chart with all those misses, here’s how it would look: Listen, I know the counter arguments. First, it’s cheaper to produce animated shows than live action. Fair enough, but with viewership this low, even that cheaper price point starts to not matter. Second, just look at the acquired charts. Hit animated comedies can generate viewership for years! Shows like The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers do really, really well. Fair enough, but streaming has failed to recreate the dynamic that Fox has mastered so well. That’s a problem for streaming still. Television - Emmys! The annual Emmys broadcast was a few weeks ago, and I’ve got data on how the nominees performed on streaming, plus hot takes on this year’s viewership (and the big news about the broadcast’s, er, streamcast’s future). We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… The top Emmy-nominated shows… ...why I’m worried about the future of the Emmys telecast... ...the pros of broadcast television ...and the cons... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. Coming Soon! Next week, we’ve got a double issue (since the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep were so light), but then I’ll be all caught up after a deluge of streaming ratings data from Nielsen in September. In the meantime, I’m going to try to take a look at Netflix’s stats to explain why Bela Bajaria is out. But even light weeks give me plenty to talk about. The Great British Baking Show returns to Netflix and Apple TV has a buzzy new star-studded comedy. And Netflix has a controversial-but-appears-to-be-popular new game show. Plus big films like Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner head to streaming. And is East of Eden a hit? After that, The Kardashians return to Hulu, Prime Video has a reboot of Carrie, and Netflix has a horror show, Below. Disclosure Day heads to Peacock, The Housemaid heads to HBO Max_,_ a new Ben Affleck film, Animals, lands on Netflix, and Apple TV has a new John Cena action film based on, checks notes, Hasbro’s Matchbox toys. Okay. Longterm, some interesting TV production news. HBO Max ordered How to Survive Without Me, starring Kaley Cuoco, Joshua Jackson, Ray Romano and Rita Wilson, for fifteen episodes! I love that some streamers (or, at least, HBO Max) are finally ordering TV shows with more than eight episodes. In less wise production news, Landman does not appear to be coming back this year, since it just started production. Frankly, I don’t love this (get your shows out on time) but Landman is so popular, I doubt it matters.

Oct 18 • 3:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

40 Wild Tinder And Bumble Screenshots From Men That Prove Dating Is A Nightmare

Yeah, it's a mess.

Oct 18 • 2:01 PM EDT • Technology • yahoo.com

16 Home Design Trends People Regretted Following

“TikTok really made me think it looked modern and chic, but instead, it made everything so dull and boring...”

Oct 18 • 6:31 AM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com

14 Dark Secrets Everyone In Hollywood Already Knows

“They all do it. Everybody.”

Oct 17 • 11:31 PM EDT • Entertainment • buzzfeed.com

My Mind Got Blown After Seeing These 25 Incredible Pictures For The First Time

Oct 17 • 8:16 PM EDT • Technology • yahoo.com

25 Wild Things Only The Ultra Wealthy Can Buy

"I was at Burning Man last year, and some billionaire really wanted pizza from his favorite pizza place in Italy. So, he had them fly in something like 5,000 pizzas, the restaurant crew, and a pizza oven."

Oct 17 • 7:31 PM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com

NC Life Sciences News: Labcorp’s $722M Acquisition, IQVIA’s Veeva Partnership & More

North Carolina – Regional Life Sciences Roundup -October 16th, 2026 Each week, our Regional Roundup delivers the most important and timely life sciences…

Oct 16 • 12:42 PM EDT • Science • biobuzz.io

If You Can Go 5/5 On This Science And History Trivia Quiz, Your Brain Is Extremely Well-Rounded

Test your knowledge of science and history!

Oct 16 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • buzzfeed.com

IP Saves the Day On Streaming

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get started, I wanted to highlight a new idea I saw from Real Good AI, proposing a ratings system for AI use. (H/T to Anthony Kaufman’s article highlighting this.) It would look something like this: In general, I think that this is a solid, middle-ground solution that should appease both the pro-AI camp (who love AI) and the anti-AI camp (who wants to know if what they’re watching didn’t come from humans). Regardless of your feelings on AI/LLMs—I’ll never use it for my writing—transparency is often the best solution to many problems. In general, I think way more media outlets need to be using way more AI disclosures. My quick “Yes and...” to this idea: what about ads? In particular, I hate it when I see or hear ads that are obviously AI-generated, but a person or voice says, “I used this product”. AI doesn’t use products! Just today, I watched a YouTube ad where a “person” said they use some sort of rain wind chime...but that’s not a real person! They didn’t use this product. (Especially since the video of the wind chime itself also appeared to be AI-generated...) I believe most traditional advertising already has standards like this anyway.1 Okay, on to this week’s issue. We’re covering the week of 14-Sep, and then next issue, I’ll be fully caught up with Nielsen’s new release schedule. In the future, I plan to put out Streaming Ratings Reports each Monday after Nielsen’s Thursday releases. Overall, we had some big new shows this week, like Prime Video’s Reacher spinoff_, Neagley_, which is off to a big, big start, and Netflix’s latest in its Monster anthology, which is their largest opening since June and the second-largest since One Piece came out in March. All that, plus Slow Horses returns, the trio of returning shows (Lioness, Reacher and Ted Lasso) continue to dominate the top tens, Paramount+’s latest crime drama, a big whiff for a Netflix original film and a precipitous drop for Netflix film charts, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of September 14th to September 20th 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Television - IP For the TV Win Can I use the dirty word of entertainment journalism right now? IP. Shhh. Don’t tell anyone I said it. But IP works at the box office, and we’ve seen some evidence it works in TV too. Not as well, and not all the time—no absolutes here!—but often enough. And glancing at the Nielsen top ten…it worked this week! Take Prime Video, who has a monster hit in the crime drama Reacher. Would a spinoff work for that show? Yep! They binge-released Neagley, about a detective from the original Reacher series, and its eight episodes debuted to 29.6 million hours. Here’s how it stacks up to Reacher, one of Prime Video’s biggest shows: That’s great. Nearly as strong as Reacher’s opening! (Both shows started with eight, binge-released episodes, so this comparison is apples-to-apples.) Notably, Prime Video scheduled the debut of Neagley to overlap with Reacher’s most recent season, to help drive tune-in. Obviously, I love smart release strategies like that. And even though I wrote “obviously”, it’s not really that obvious, since streamers don’t often take advantage of natural overlaps like this_._2 Other data backs how well Neagley performed. It opened at second place on Samba TV for two weeks and got 51.7 million hours on Luminate. That’s the eleventh biggest opening on Luminate since May of 2024 and tied with Bridgerton’s third season opening. That’s a huge opening! Its IMDb is solid too, a 7.7 on 24K reviews. Netflix’s latest edition in the “Monster” series—which started with Jeffrey Dahmer and comes from Ryan Murphy—did well too, opening to 24.7 million hours. That’s the biggest opening for Netflix since I Will Find You in June, and second biggest since March. Unlike the Reacher series, this franchise is trending downward, though. The first Monster show—Dahmer - Monster—was giant. More than anything, I think this reflects that Netflix running out of extremely popular—if that’s the right word?—serial killers to feature. Still, the data says this is a very good opening. It made it to third place on Samba TV for two weeks. It also opened to 40.0 million hours on Luminate. That’s not quite as elite as Neagley, but still very, very strong. I’ll be honest: my priors coming into any given week are that IP works to help drive buzz for new shows, but TV shows need to stand on their own even more than movies, so they will succeed or fail based on their quality. But these two spinoffs definitely worked. Quick Notes on TV The top show, film or special this week? Football, again. Specifically, Prime Video’s season opener of Thursday Night Football. The games run long (three hours) but mainly a lot of people watch each game. That adds up to a lot of viewership. Paramount released the second season of MobLand on an unusual day for that service, a Friday! Often, they put their new shows out on a Sunday, as they did last year with a run of shows (Lioness, Tulsa King and Landman). MobLand didn’t make Nielsen in its first week, but on Samba TV it got to eighth and seventh place. Luminate had a smaller opening too, only 5.3 million hours. MobLand missed the Nielsen charts for its first eight weeks, so this season is off to a stronger start. (Bonus note: the first season streams on both Prime Video and The Roku Channel, but I only have it as Paramount+ on those charts.) I’ve mentioned a few times that foreign-language originals do lower numbers than English-language originals on Netflix most of the time. But I don’t usually emphasize what country those originals come from, and observationally, they tend to be from Western or Northern European countries, in general. So credit to Not a Stranger, a Turkish Netflix original, for breaking through on Luminate, getting to 7.9 million hours in its first full week on those charts. As I mentioned last issue, Crew Girl ended up making the Nielsen charts in its second week. That’s still a soft performance compared to many shows, but again this, one looks affordable. And if you’re curious, here’s how it stacks up to some other sports romance shows: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… …about a new data source and how it drives streaming viewership… ...what reality show is struggling in its latest season…. ...what Netflix film bombed…. ...How Reacher, Ted Lasso, and Lioness are doing on the charts… ...what obscure sport put up great viewership numbers… …how far streaming films are falling… …all the flops, bombs and misses for the last week… …and more… ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Next week, we’ve got a double issue, then we’ll be all caught up with Nielsen’s data. Yes! The goal is to have my report out on the Monday after I get Nielsen’s data. So next issue, I’m looking at East of Eden, The Great British Baking Show, a Willy Wonka game show (that people are upset uses AI, but viewers might not care), and a Cosby show spinoff reboot on Netflix, and Brothers on Apple TV (starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey). That’s about it for TV, but who’s going to win the streaming week, The Breadwinner or Backrooms on streaming? Answer: Toy Story 5. Plus Netflix has a Unabomber film and a new Tyler Perry film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma tries to repeat The Substance’s run on MUBI, and Paramount+ has Jackass: Best and Last. Long term, Netflix is remaking Lonesome Dove. I love this choice, but man, there are a lot of westerns on TV right now. And they’re making Sega TV shows, including a Crazy Taxi TV show and Sonic show with an “edge”.

Oct 15 • 3:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

Youngstown business nominated for two Minority Business Enterprise awards

Youngstown-area business, Buzz Bros, has been nominated for two statewide awards through the Minority Business Enterprise. They provide home care, inside and out.

Oct 14 • 5:26 PM EDT • Business • wkbn.com

Meet Haute & Freddy, the band that inspired ‘Carrie’ with breakout song ‘Shy Girl’

Who are Haute & Freddy, and what is ‘Shy Girl’ about? Meet the pop band that inspired the ‘Carrie’ soundtrack and the episode 8 song the band tells EW holds deep meaning about ‘religious trauma.’

Oct 14 • 3:40 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Michigan State basketball forward starting to get NBA draft buzz

One Michigan State player is starting to get his name mentioned more often in NBA draft circles

Oct 14 • 9:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Harry Cohen gets the Jeopardy treatment in latest ad making politics fun

His buzzer might be on the fritz, but this ad assures voters his policies aren't.

Oct 13 • 5:53 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com

When 1 + 1 = 1: The Miserable Math Behind Many Media Mergers

(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) The last few issues of this newsletter have circled two topics: September’s streaming viewership and all the Paramount/Skydance/Warner Bros./Discovery merger news. I’m happy to say on the Streaming Ratings Report front, we’ll be all caught up by early next week, then the SRR will come out on a tight weekly schedule. Then, after today, I’ll have slayed my PSWbD dragon. It’s such a big story, it demanded multiple issues. With the announcement of a name (just Skydance) and executive team, though, I think we can almost close the book on this story. In terms of topics, it becomes just another studio to cover. So today, I have one last set of takes on that merger. As I’ve sat with it, reading about who was staying and who was going, a big worry crystallized in my brain, and I gotta get that take out. Plus, I still owe you a host of “ugliness” that didn’t fit in my previous “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” takes. Let’s dive in! Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - As Paramount Shuffles Deck Chairs, Will They Build or Consolidate? On social media—I try to avoid most social media platforms, but sometimes I end up checking in—the best joke I saw about the announcement of the new name of Skydance was from fellow reporter Claire Atkinson who pointed out… Yeah, I laughed out loud at that one. Later, though, I saw another Twitter response (that later got deleted, so I can’t shout the person out) that did give me pause. The person noted that the Titanic film made the better analogy: a super expensive project everyone in the town doubted that went on to conquer the globe. So yeah: on one hand, the image of the Titanic recalls the actual ship and its infamous end, but that clip is from a movie which proved the doubters wrong. So for all the skepticism of the latest massive media merger, one could wonder which way this one goes. Does it crash like the Titanic or rise to glory like Titanic, the movie? Either way, this deal is “Titanic”, looking at the massive debt required to close the deal, which is not going well when it comes to borrowing costs for Paramount… …or borrowing costs for Oracle. But I’ve started to get worried about another outcome: the sum of this merger will be smaller and weaker and less profitable than its former parts. In other words, one plus one won’t equal three or two, but an even smaller number. Skydance paid to take a traditional studio off the board, but they won’t really capture the upside. Let me explain what I mean, but first, let’s look at the series of news that inspired this thought. Skydance Sets Its Leadership Team As soon as the Paramount-Skydance-Warner Bros.-Discovery merger closed, the new leadership team announced a new name—Skydance, which I’ll use going forward—and a new executive leadership team. You’ve probably read through all the executive shuffling, but if you haven’t, here’s a quick, incomplete summary, in rough order of importance: Mattel’s CEO Ynon Kreiz—who previously ran Maker Studios—joined as co-CEO with David Ellison. HBO/HBO Max’s Casey Bloys will stay and run streaming. Former head of streaming for Paramount-Skydance Cindy Holland—who was also at Netflix—will depart. The former heads of Warner Bros.—Pam Abdy and Mike De Luca—are out. The film studios will be run by Dana Goldstein and Josh Greenstein. George Cheeks of Paramount will run Skydance TV, controlling all the TV production units. In comic book news, the DC films will still be run by Peter Gunn and Peter Safran. Lastly, the head of CNN, Mark Thompson, will stay in place. Let’s quickly opine on the particulars before diving into the broad ramifications. We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… Who I like and dislike in their next gigs… Why I think this consolidation will likely leave Skydance worse off… The math behind which mergers succeed and which don’t… A lot more ugliness in this merger… And a whole lot more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support.

Oct 13 • 3:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

Laika's 'Wildwood' Review: A Magical Spectacle

Stop-motion? More like stop e-motional.

Oct 13 • 1:34 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Sundance documentary about teacher\'s famous \'Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes\' experiment coming to West Art

A buzzworthy documentary about a teacher’s pioneering experiment to teach students about racism will be screened at West Art this weekend.

Oct 13 • 12:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com

Beyond Buzzwords: How Sutter Leaders Create Healthcare’s Blueprint

By Matthew Murphy, Vitals contributor What does meaningful transformation look like inside a healthcare system, and what lessons can it offer the rest of the industry? In a series of recent podcast conversations, Sutter Health leaders shared how they’re tackling some of healthcare’s biggest challenges, turning new ideas into action and creating a blueprint for […]

Oct 12 • 7:43 PM EDT • Health • vitals.sutterhealth.org

NCBA Urges Cattle Producers to Document Ranch Business Activity Amid Hobby Loss Rules

In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays spoke with Kent Bacus of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association about tax rules that could affect cattle producers, particularly smaller operations that experience multiple years of losses. Bacus explains why keeping accurate records and understanding IRS guidelines are important for protecting family ranches, while

Oct 12 • 9:27 AM EDT • Business • oklahomafarmreport.com

When AI goes rogue, who should get sued?

The AI industry has been buzzing with concern about potentially catastrophic risks to humanity — a hum of anxiety that’s grown louder as Anthropic prepares to make its stock market debut next month.

Oct 12 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • cnn.com

Could the Tigers’ 11th-Round Pick Be Their Biggest Steal?

High school standout Will Adams bypassed college to bring his elite left-handed swing to Detroit, sparking internal buzz that the 11th-round pick is a massive draft-day heist.

Oct 11 • 11:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

“We didn’t ask for more Microslop”: Microsoft promised to fix Windows 11, then dropped 300 AI buzzwords at its big event

Microsoft said "agent" 100 times and "Windows 11" three times at its October 7 event, while users were waiting for fixes and RAM savings.

Oct 11 • 11:20 PM EDT • Technology • windowslatest.com

23 Expensive Mistakes

Best of luck to these people.

Oct 11 • 7:31 AM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com

Pop Stars Who Built Business Empires

I'm already wondering what they'll do next.

Oct 10 • 10:16 PM EDT • Business • buzzfeed.com

24 Pop Stars Who Proved They're Just As Successful In Business

I'm already wondering what they'll do next.

Oct 10 • 10:16 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com

New restaurant and hotel arrive in the Redding area

This week in the Buzz: Two friends are opening a new eatery in an old pizza spot. An indoor cycling studio expands, and a new hotel opens in Redding.

Oct 10 • 10:01 AM EDT • Business • redding.com

Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around

The much-hyped startup is in the hot seat.

Oct 9 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Lions Trade Buzz Heats Up Around $20M Cornerback

Now that the Detroit Lions have moved on from pursuing Joey Porter Jr., it appears the cornerback most connected to the team is Kristian Fulton of the Kansas City Chiefs. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN poured more fuel on the speculation fire by offering Fulton as a strong option to tie to the Lions before the […] The post Lions Trade Buzz Heats Up Around $20M Cornerback appeared first on HEAVY.

Oct 8 • 9:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Gerry McNamara vows to restore the Orange to 'national relevance'

The basketball buzz is clearly back in Syracuse, thanks to a familiar face.

Oct 8 • 3:06 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com

Glen Powell Is Under Fire For This "Mind-Numbingly Stupid" Political Comment

"aka 'I'm a rich white man in America and I don't have to worry about anything because I'm rich and white'"

Oct 8 • 10:06 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial “success” in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Let’s be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week I’m going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audience’s faith. So that’s the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we don’t know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Let’s start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers aren’t there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Here’s the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... I’m not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

Oct 7 • 6:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

Utah health officials issue ‘urgent’ warning about kratom, ‘cat’s claw’ products after overdoses

The Utah health officials are warning against cat's claw herbal supplements that may contain dangerous semi-synthetic kratom chemicals.

Oct 6 • 7:11 PM EDT • Health • utahnewsdispatch.com

Pixar exhibit brings movie magic to Frost Science

Buzz Lightyear may have doubts about humans and space travel, but when it comes to bringing Pixar characters to life, filmmakers take technology to infinity and beyond.

Oct 6 • 6:27 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Saleen's 450-HP Sports Car Is Finally Available To Order, For Corvette Z06 Money

It's been years, but Saleen promises its new sports car is ready for primetime. We just don't know exactly when that will be yet.

Oct 6 • 4:08 PM EDT • Technology • carbuzz.com

Massive Entertainment Merger Creates Question About NASCAR TV Coverage

A massive entertainment merger brought multiple channels together under one company and created questions about NASCAR TV coverage.

Oct 6 • 12:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • fanbuzz.com

'Real buzz' around Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland midfielder Shea Charles says "he could not be happier" following the side's unbeaten Nations League window.

Oct 6 • 12:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Saints under 'extra pressure' before derby

Nerves are buzzing around Southampton as they await to hear the outcome of boss Tonda Eckert's Spygate hearing amid a looming South Coast derby.

Oct 6 • 6:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Can you live longer for $5,500? Longevity clinics are the buzzy new trend at nonprofit hospitals

Longevity clinics promise personalized health advice and cutting-edge tests. Now major hospitals are entering the business, at costs reaching $45,000 a year.

Oct 6 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

Business Buzz: Platinum Fitness Performance & Wellness Center

Business: Platinum Fitness Performance & Wellness Center Address: 8 Pecks Lane Owner: Randy Lockwood What is your business background? “I’ve had [a place] in Milford … and then D...

Oct 6 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • newtownbee.com

Chiefs get major timeline for potential Tyreek Hill signing

The buzz for Tyreek Hill to Kansas City is growing after a report on Sunday night. On Monday, Hill's timeline to sign with a team was revealed and it is very close.

Oct 5 • 6:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Health officials issue urgent warning after four Utah deaths tied to herbal supplements

Utah health officials issued a public health warning after four deaths across the state were linked to certain herbal supplements, including kratom products and

Oct 5 • 2:35 PM EDT • Health • kutv.com

Greenfield Business Association distributes inaugural Buzz Awards

Greenfield Business Association held its first Buzz Awards at Four Phantoms Brewing Co., celebrating local shops like Hope & Olive and Freedom Cafe.

Oct 5 • 12:44 PM EDT • Business • recorder.com

Padres Are Facing A New Unstoppable Star For Milwaukee

The San Diego Padres ran into a buzzsaw named Jackson Chourio, and what he's doing isn't exactly new.

Oct 5 • 9:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Decaf Coffee Might Have A Surprising Advantage Over Caffeinated, Study Finds

A buzz without the buzz.

Oct 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com

Doctors Are Revealing Alarming Health Trends They're Seeing In Gen Z Patients

Turns out a few tiny changes in behavior can prevent some BIG issues down the road.

Oct 3 • 7:31 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com

Doctors Are Revealing Alarming Health Trends They're Seeing In Gen Z Patients

Oct 3 • 7:31 PM EDT • Health • ca.style.yahoo.com

I changed one ChatGPT setting, and it stopped giving me generic advice

If you're tired of ChatGPT's safe, corporate buzzwords, changing one persistent profile setting permanently kills generic answers.

Oct 3 • 5:00 PM EDT • Technology • howtogeek.com

New Redding barbershop welcomes the arts. Game lounge back in business

This week in the Buzz. Barbershop opens in former Sushi restaurant. Games and Brews reopens, and a commercial space in Shasta Lake sells in investors.

Oct 3 • 10:02 AM EDT • Business • redding.com

‘Can’t Get Much Bigger Than This,’ ‘GOAT’s HOME’ – Sports World Buzzes as Caitlin Clark Joins College GameDay’s 1st Iowa Visit in 20 Years for Ohio State Clash

Caitlin Clark is heading back to Iowa City, and she is doing it for one of the biggest football weekends the Hawkeye community has seen in years. The Fever star will serve as the celebrity guest picker on ESPN’s College GameDay when No.

Oct 3 • 12:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

NYC bakery’s $60 loaf of bread sparks social media buzz

Oct 2 • 6:26 PM EDT • Business • cnn.com

Delta Expo celebrates regional business, culture, entertainment

From live music and Delta food to shopping, stepping, books, and small-business showcases, Pine Bluff buzzed Sept. 25-26 as the first-of-its-kind Delta Expo brought businesses, entrepreneurs, artists, and community members together at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. Presented by the Pine Bluff Black Chamber of Commerce and visionary president and CEO Joni Alexander-Robinson, the two-day […]

Oct 2 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • pbcommercial.com

Delta Expo celebrates regional business, culture, entertainment

From live music and Delta food to shopping, stepping, books, and small-business showcases, Pine Bluff buzzed Sept. 25-26 as the first-of-its-kind Delta Expo brought businesses, entrepreneurs, artists, and community members together at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. Presented by the Pine Bluff Black Chamber of Commerce and visionary president and CEO Joni Alexander-Robinson, the two-day […]

Oct 2 • 4:00 PM EDT • Business • pbcommercial.com

New downtown business in 'Buzz', Shasta Lake commercial center sells

Oct 2 • 3:15 PM EDT • Business • redding.com

People on the Move: Andy Fenny Named President of Pace Life Sciences

Pace Life Sciences, the life sciences division of science and technology company Pace, has named Andrew (Andy) Fenny as its President. “Pace Life Sciences has…

Oct 2 • 11:11 AM EDT • Science • biobuzz.io

BioHealth Capital Region - Regional Life Sciences Roundup - October 2, 2026

Each week, our Regional Roundup delivers the most important and timely life sciences news from around the region. From groundbreaking research to fundraising…

Oct 2 • 10:37 AM EDT • Science • biobuzz.io

From Unicorn Frappuccinos to VIP meet-and-greets: How 3 brands are turning buzz into business

As companies fight harder for consumers' attention, marketing is becoming an increasingly important tool for driving growth.

Oct 2 • 10:29 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com

Made in Iowa recap: Sukup Manufacturing innovating for the next generation

For Sukup Manufacturing Co., innovation has never been limited to the products rolling off the manufacturing floor. It can mean a robot installed decades before automation became a manufacturing buzzword. It can mean building a childcare center across the street from the plant, opening an on-site health clinic or establishing an engineering presence in Ames…

Oct 2 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com

Wizards Notes: Open Practice, AJ Dybantsa Buzz, Vukcevic Update

Updates from the open practice that the Washington Wizards hosted inside Capital One Arena on Thursday night

Oct 2 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Greater Philadelphia - Regional Life Sciences Roundup - October 1, 2026

Each week, our Regional Roundup delivers the most important and timely life sciences news from around the region. From groundbreaking research to fundraising…

Oct 1 • 9:37 AM EDT • Science • biobuzz.io

Buzz and business impact: Where AI is delivering value

Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for a significant number of senior living and care providers, with many leveraging this technology to create value for residents, patients and staff members alike. But sometimes AI can be used like a hammer in search of a nail, offering oversimplified solutions for complex challenges, experts warn.

Oct 1 • 12:06 AM EDT • Business • mcknightshomecare.com

Looking at the Ugly Side of the Paramount-Skydance Merger...And How I’d Fix It

A Message from Our Sponsor Certified Fresh with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, FX’s Adults is an ensemble comedy series about a group of twenty-somethings in New York leaning on each other to navigate love, work, friendship and family. Don’t sleep on “The Sitcom of the Moment” - Awards Buzz All Episodes now streaming on Hulu on Disney+. Watch The Teaser Trailer... (Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industr(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Before we dive in, I wanted to congratulate Broadcast Now for being the first to report that Netflix’s How to Get to Heaven from Belfast has been cancelled. (I saw this in a write-up by Kasey Moore of Whats-On-Netflix.) More importantly, I wanted to note that, as of yesterday, none of the other trades had reported the news yet. I have half a guess that eventually one of them will report this. Anyways, it’s time to take a break from my deluge of streaming ratings reports to continue my analysis of the Paramount Skydance Warner Bros. Discovery (PSWbD) saga. As I noted last week, a lot of times when folks use the (sometimes cliched) “the good, the bad and the ugly” framing for an article, “the ugly” section is just more bad. Or very, very bad. In this case, yeah, I do think it’s ugly. In more than one way. Unfortunately, we’re only going to have time to tackle one of those ways today: the ugly pile of debt to finance this deal. (In a future article, I may cover the entire process for how it went down, which was very, very ugly.) Last issue, I explained why I liked this deal in a vacuum. Unfortunately, “vacuums” don’t exist outside of space. Let’s dive in. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - The Ugliness of the Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger More than one person sent me a note speculating that the big problem with Paramount Skydance buying Warner Bros. Discovery is the “Warner Bros.” portion of the deal. In fact, that’s a take I read a lot about Warner Bros., ever since they caught Netflix’s, and then Paramount-Skydance’s, eye. In short, multiple companies (Time, AOL, AT&T, Discovery) have bought and then regretted buying Warner Bros. Since it’s nearing Halloween, you could almost say it’s like the folks think WB is cursed! It’s a haunted studio—like the town of Derry in movie studio form—and whoever takes possession of it will fall into misery! Yet...I just don’t like that story, because it doesn’t explain the “why” behind why those deals fell through. Especially when Warner Bros. has continued to succeed as a TV and film studio in the intervening two decades. Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter? Game of Thrones? Everything HBO? Considering it never fully owned a broadcast TV channel, this media company has done pretty well. So what went wrong? Well, in recent years, companies bought Warner Bros. instead of the other, smarter option. Explaining POCD (And Applying It to Mergers & Acquisitions) As I explained last issue, one of my favorite frameworks is the POCD tool for evaluating venture capital investments: People Opportunity Context Deal The bar to invest as a VC is high. (Or I might say “was” since cheap interest rates made life easier last decade.) You review a thousand prospectuses, get pitched by a hundred, and invest in the ten best, with the hopes that one of those ten would pay for the rest. That means every element of a deal needed to pay off: you needed the right people running the companies, who could capitalize on the right opportunity, in the context of an industry that was ripe for disruption. If you could then not overpay, you could make some money in a smart deal. The analogy isn’t perfect here, but close enough. For a merger or acquisition to work, you need the combined company (which is the opportunity) to make more than the price you need to pay (which is the deal). Note: the people and context still matter, but with M&A, it’s a little more straightforward: does the opportunity exceed the cost? And usually with Warner Bros., it hasn’t. If you want to find out the single biggest mistake made by the Warner Bros. suitors over the last few years (and my simple fix) become a paid subscriber. I’ll also touch on who I think Paramount-Skydance could (shockingly) consider buying next, TBD, and more. Sign up here.

Sep 30 • 6:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

Minaris Adds Dedicated Viral Vectors Business Unit, Splitting Into Three Specialized Divisions

Minaris, the Philadelphia-based global cell and gene therapy CDMO and multimodal contract testing organization, announced on September 29, 2026 the addition…

Sep 30 • 8:15 AM EDT • Business • biobuzz.io

Milan Testing the Waters for Bayern Munich Defender

Milan ended up standing pat in the back late in the summer despite a few attempts and the persistent buzz because they couldn’t find the right man, but they’ll likely address the role in January, ...

Sep 30 • 8:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Business Buzz: Monarch Physical Therapy

Business: Monarch Physical Therapy Address: 61 Church Hill Road Owner: Dr Chelsea and Matt Barnes What is your business background? “I got my doctorate in physical therapy in 2018. My...

Sep 30 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • newtownbee.com

34 Weird And Interesting Reddit Photos

I'm sorry, WHAT?????

Sep 29 • 10:01 AM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com

Taylor Swift and Dakota Johnson were besties onstage, plus a buzzy ‘Off Campus’ reunion: Here’s what caught my eye during the VMAs

Risqué fashion choices, historic wins, onstage reunions and a slate of top-notch performances. What more could you want from the VMAs?

Sep 28 • 4:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

27 Flight Attendants Share Unhinged Passenger Questions

No, we can't turn off the engines because you think they're too loud, ma'am.

Sep 28 • 10:25 AM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com

Merck's holistic HIV health hive buzzes with the help of actress Debbie Allen

Merck’s newly unveiled HIV education program “Your Hive of Whole Health” is buzzing with the help of a queen bee in famed actor and HIV advocate Debbie Allen. | Merck's "Your Hive of Whole Health" brings together a hoard of educational resources and tips to promote holistic health for those living with HIV.

Sep 28 • 2:00 AM EDT • Health • fiercepharma.com

23 Screenshots Of Entitled People

It's time for a reality check.

Sep 27 • 7:31 PM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com

MTV VMAs 2026 nominations: Full list as Madonna, Taylor Swift lead the pack ahead of tonight's show

This year's Best New Artist race is also heating up, with divisive pop-country nepo baby Stella Lefty and English vocal powerhouse Sienna Spiro among the evening's buzziest nominees.

Sep 27 • 2:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

24 Photos Of Men Making Their Partners' Lives Worse

Sep 26 • 7:16 AM EDT • Technology • yahoo.com

NYFF Turns Up The Heat As ‘Godzilla’, ‘Artificial’, ‘NAZA’, ‘You Can See Everything’ Spark Festival Buzz

The New York Film Festival opens Friday night with a lineup featuring great films of 2026 along with heavy-hitting world premieres. Artistic director Dennis Lim insists the global bows are not “the be...

Sep 25 • 5:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

BioHealth Capital Region - Regional Life Sciences Roundup - September 25, 2026

Each week, our Regional Roundup delivers the most important and timely life sciences news from around the region. From groundbreaking research to fundraising…

Sep 25 • 10:34 AM EDT • Science • biobuzz.io

Microsoft is killing off the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ brand

What will Microsoft’s next buzzword be?

Sep 24 • 9:25 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Fact-checking the pop science buzz that two brains evolved into one

Once cells know they are neurons, they know which end to go to but that doesn’t amount to two brains.

Sep 24 • 7:22 PM EDT • Science • mindmatters.ai

13 Terrifying Statistics That Will Keep You Up At Night

"But if you stop and think about it, it's actually pretty wild."

Sep 24 • 2:01 PM EDT • Technology • buzzfeed.com

Lonzo Ball Denies NBA Retirement Buzz After Discussing His Health, Injury History in Video

Lonzo Ball's injuries have made it difficult for him to play basketball, but he's not looking to retire right now.

Sep 23 • 12:01 PM EDT • Health • bleacherreport.com

Teen Turns Dirty Trash Bins Into a Business - Larchmont Buzz

Meet Ivan S., a Hancock Park resident and Notre Dame High School junior who started The Wash Bros, a trash bin cleaning business.

Sep 22 • 8:24 PM EDT • Business • larchmontbuzz.com

17 Celebrities Whose Health Struggles Stayed Private Until They Died

We truly had no idea. 💔

Sep 22 • 10:01 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com

This new exhibit explores the fascinating science behind Pixar films

Ever wonder how Buzz Lightyear got his slick, space-age flight moves, or why Sulley’s fur looks so impossibly soft you just want to hug the screen? Starting Saturday, October 10, 2026, the Phillip and...

Sep 21 • 5:18 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

MTV VMAs nominations 2026: Madonna, Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter lead the pack

This year’s Best New Artist race is also heating up, with divisive pop-country nepo baby Stella Lefty and English vocal powerhouse Sienna Spiro among the evening’s buzziest nominees.

Sep 21 • 3:35 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Law Roach Is Styling Kim Kardashian After Being Accused Of Shading Her

I still can't decide what he was trying to say with that response...

Sep 21 • 9:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Highlighting Mental Health Disparities in Indigenous Communities Affected by Huntington’s Disease

⏱️12 min read | Unique research highlights an overlooked mental health disparity among Indigenous North American people with HD – and the need for care grounded in trust, community partnership, and cultural understanding.

Sep 21 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • en.hdbuzz.net

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The Business Buzz features news about the economic scene, promotions, acquisitions and expansions. Contact Pat Hill at pat.hill@pikespeaknewspapers.com or (719) 636-0358. Tony Perry/Park State Bank & Trust provided the sound system for the Sept. 11 ceremony in Lions Park. SSR Mining Cripple Creek Victor is the presenting sponsor of the Light of Hope Teller, a […]

Sep 21 • 2:00 AM EDT • Business • gazette.com

Meta's TV Muse ad is the latest sign that agents are going mainstream

Meta released a TV ad for its Muse AI agent, and the internet is buzzing. Fears about agents going rogue haven't dissuaded hype about the new tech.

Sep 20 • 1:11 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Bristol, Blue Star ‘breakup’ has Ivywild hallways abuzz

Bristol Brewing Co. and Blue Star restaurant marked the beginning of a beautiful business partnership almost 30 years ago, inside neighboring operations, in co-owned property near the intersection of South Tejon Street and East Ramona Avenue. When the historic former Ivywild elementary building went on the market just blocks away at 1604 S. Cascade Ave., […]

Sep 20 • 12:31 AM EDT • Business • gazette.com

Melissa Barrera Says Ed Sheeran Could Have Rebooked His Shows and “People Would Have Rallied Behind Him”

Melissa Barrera was fired from the Scream franchise in 2023 over social media posts criticizing Israel and praising Ed Sheeran’s decision to remove himself from the U.S. leg of his… The post Melissa B...

Sep 19 • 7:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Adults Are Sharing Their "I Can't Believe I Have To Explain This To Another Adult" Stories, And Wow

"I had to explain to a 26-year-old college graduate who majored in geography that Kentucky is, indeed, a state."

Sep 19 • 6:31 AM EDT • Technology • yahoo.com

The 2001 Diamondbacks' group chat is buzzing ahead of anniversary

If a group chat can ever replicate a major league clubhouse, the 2001 Diamondbacks' text thread is as close as it gets.

Sep 18 • 7:32 PM EDT • Sports • arizonasports.com