Petition Urges State AGs to Reject Paramount-WBD Concessions

www.thewrap.com: The Block the Merger Coalition has launched a new petition urging the 12 state attorneys general to reject “empty concessions” from Paramount and “hold strong” in their legal fight against its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

Maybe Paramount-Warner Should Leave L.A.: Joseph Kahn Opinion Column

www.hollywoodreporter.com: However, for L.A., it’d be a death blow. The infrastructure is already suffering with vendors going out of business and crewmembers quitting. If Paramount-Warners leaves, the built-in advantage of being a mecca for filmmakers with access to top talent, props and equipment disintegrates overnight. Studio stockpiles of props, wardrobe, cranes and cameras can truck over to Nashville or Austin. Crews can suddenly live in lower-cost states and afford homes and schools for their kids. They may have to pray to Baby Jesus a little more, but a little Holy Ghost Power never hurt nobody.

From Farm Shop to High-Tech Powerhouse: A Blueprint for Rapid CNC Scaling

Modern Applications News – Metalworking Ideas For Today's Job Shop: Every Friday through Sunday in Wichita, Kansas, there's a distinctive location in the city where employees have left the building, the lights are out, but spindles hum nonstop, producing parts to exact spec, all weekend long. This is all made possible by one company's vision to take its manufacturing capabilities to the next level through technology.

Follow-Me announces sales partnership with Kariotis in Greece and Cyprus

LightSoundJournal.com: Follow-Me, leader in performer tracking solutions, has agreed a strategic sales partnership with Kariotis Audio & Lighting, a prominent provider of audiovisual integration solutions serving Greece and Cyprus. The arrangement encompasses the full Follow-Me product range, and marks a significant step in expanding access to advanced performer tracking technology across the Greek and Cypriot markets.

Sweetwater Expands Again

Church Production Magazine: The nation’s largest music store — located on the Sweetwater campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana — is getting even bigger. Sweetwater is unveiling a significant update to its retail store, which includes two new dedicated home audio listening rooms.

You've Got Mail Order—How the TDF Costume Collection Ships Rentals Across the Country

TDF: As emerging costume designers, Ariel Kregal and Gabe Bagdazian had been running into each other for years. So she wasn’t that surprised when she walked into the TDF Costume Collection in spring 2024 to rent some items and spotted Bagdazian, who had recently been hired as an In-House Designer.

Pacific Avenue Capital Partners Completes Acquisition of U.S. Power Chain Hoist and Chain Business from Columbus McKinnon and Launches New Standalone Company, Stuart Rush

Newswire: Pacific Avenue Capital Partners ("Pacific Avenue"), a Los Angeles-headquartered private equity firm focused on complex corporate carve-outs and other operationally intensive situations in the middle market, today announced that an affiliate has completed the acquisition of Columbus McKinnon Corporation's ("Columbus McKinnon", NASDAQ:CMCO) U.S. based power chain hoist and chain business (the "Company"), including its associated international sales support functions.

Tait Acquires Silent House in Joining of Top Touring/Experiential Firms

variety.com: TAIT, for decades a juggernaut in providing technology and equipment for concert touring and other live experiences, has acquired Silent House, one of the foremost production studios and creative agencies in the industry, after more informally partnering for many years, it was announced Monday.

Climbing the Leadership Ladder

Church Production Magazine: Many of us serving in the church tech production world may not think of ourselves as natural leaders. I believe that there’s a bit of an incorrect stereotype of a leader: they have to be overly outgoing, great speakers from the platform, or even carry more experience and expertise than everyone around them.

Sphere Entertainment Posts 28% Q4 Revenue Jump

www.ticketnews.com: For the three months ending in Dec. 31, 2025, total company revenue increased 28% to $394.3 million, up from $308.3 million in the prior-year quarter. The company posted an operating income of $28.9 million, compared to an operating loss of $142.9 million a year earlier. Adjusted operating income rose to $128.0 million, up $95.2 million year-over-year.

Christie to sell video processing business to former owners

AV Magazine: Christie is to sell its broadcast and professional video business to its former owners Clark Williams and Jeff Wilson. The company announced an agreement in principle to sell the business to Vista PHX Crop, a new firm created by the former Vista Systems owners and industry veterans.

California DOJ: Hollywood Consolidation 'Does Not Serve' State

www.thewrap.com: When asked directly about the prospect of a potential sale of the media giant and whether it would sue to block it, a spokesperson for Attorney General Robert Bonta’s office told TheWrap it believes “further consolidation in markets that are central to American economic life — whether in the financial, airline, grocery or broadcasting and entertainment markets — does not serve the American economy, consumers or competition well.”

CBS, MTV, BET hit hardest as Paramount layoffs begin- Fast Company

www.fastcompany.com: The entertainment giant began cutting around 1,000 workers on Wednesday, with twice that many pink slips expected in the days to come. In a memo to staff, new Paramount CEO David Ellison characterized the reductions, which will ultimately shrink the company by 10%, as a necessary step for the company’s long-term growth.

How to create a winning business strategy

Fast Company: I revisited my definition of strategy several years ago and realized recently that I hadn’t written about it—just presented it privately to executive teams in the context of my strategy work with them. I decided to rectify that oversight by writing this Playing to Win/Practitioner Insights (PTW/PI) piece on it called Revisiting my Definition of Strategy: Compelling Desired Customer Action.

Sphere's 'The Wizard of Oz' Box Office: How Much Money Has It Made?

www.billboard.com: The Wizard of Oz at Sphere in Las Vegas has sold more than 500,000 tickets since launching on Aug. 28, generating over $65 million in ticket sales, according to an announcement from Sphere on Monday (Sept. 15). Notably, 280,000 of those tickets were sold after the film’s Aug. 28 premiere (tickets first went on sale to the public on June 10).

Live Nation Stock Climbs as Antitrust Storm Clouds Gather

www.ticketnews.com: Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) continues to trade near record highs, but pressure is mounting as regulators, lawmakers, and fans raise questions about its dominance of the live entertainment market.

Taylor Sheridan, Paramount establish massive production hub in Texas

Reel 360 News: Taylor Sheridan, the creative force behind Yellowstone, Tulsa King, and Landman, has teamed up with Paramount Television and real estate developer Hillwood to launch Texas’s largest-ever film and TV production campus in Fort Worth.

Why negotiating gives you anxiety — and why it shouldn't

Salon.com: Does the word "influence" make you clench a little? Does the concept of "negotiation" give you anxiety? It shouldn't. As author and assistant professor at Yale Zoe Chance explains it, we've been influencing and negotiating all our lives. Negotiation in everyday life isn't like a tense Hollywood drama, with clocks running down and people pounding their fists on desks. It's just... communication. And better communication makes life better for everybody, whether we're trying to change the world or just change our jobs.

Local small businesses emerge stronger after the lockdown

nextpittsburgh.com: Ben Peoples got an early warning. He’s a provider of theatrical and architectural lighting, with suppliers in China. He closely watched that country’s winter shutdown. When COVID-19 reached the U.S., he wasn’t shocked that Broadway — the source of much of his business — closed for the spring.

Nautilus Entertainment Design, Inc. Becomes An Employee-Owned Business

LiveDesignOnline: Nautilus Entertainment Design, Inc. (NED) announced today that after 30 years in business, the company founders Laura and Jim Tetlow, are selling their stock to the company ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan.) With this sale, the company will become 100% employee-owned. Jim Tetlow will continue on in a consultancy role as Principal Consultant and Lighting Designer for select shows and projects in an effort to provide NED’s clients with a multi-year seamless transition.