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Jeff Shell

Wendy McMahon
Dylan Byers • October 16, 2024

McMahon on Wire

The nightmare on 57th Street continues as CBS News chief Wendy McMahon preps for a meeting with incoming Paramount leaders David Ellison and Jeff Shell amid a series of ongoing scandals and micro-scandals that have the newsroom and media chattering class in an uproar.
Matthew Belloni • October 15, 2024
David Ellison Will See You Now
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Paramount’s new mogul and his post-merger deputy Jeff Shell are taking meetings with their top executives, as plans for the storied studio—and especially its streaming video ambitions—come into clearer focus.
Matthew Belloni • July 9, 2024
Money Wins Paramount
Larry Ellison, David Ellison
Skydance’s David Ellison reveals plans for the storied studio as he leverages his father’s Oracle fortune and the motivation to reinvent a dying company amid questions about his promised tech fixes: “This is what I wanna do for the rest of my life.”
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John Ourand • July 8, 2024
For Whom Shell Tolls
CBS Sports executives are optimistic about the new Ellison-RedBird deal for Paramount. Not only is the endless deal process finally over, but president Jeff Shell “has a history of using sports content as a way to drive the core business,” as one person put it.
Jeff Shell Gerry Cardinale Jeff Zucker
William D. Cohan • April 17, 2024
Gerry & The Jeffs Come for Shari’s Baby
I’ve got the skinny on the Ellison-Paramount deal—an extraordinarily fascinating deleveraged recap featuring a multibillion-dollar PIPE, Jeff Shell’s return to the top ranks of the media world, and possibly even Jeff Zucker’s revival as a top television executive. You can’t make this shit up. Will the special committee of the board buy it?
Can Ben Stiller pull off a salvage job on “Severance” Season 2?
Matthew Belloni • April 28, 2023
A ‘Severance’ Salvage Job and Hollywood’s Executive Amnesia
Ben Stiller brings in a trusted hand to fix problems on his Apple TV+ Emmy winner, Sony’s Tom Rothman forgets in a speech to movie theater owners that he abandoned their business during the pandemic, and much more.
Does Comcast C.E.O. Brian Roberts’ decision to appoint Mike Cavanagh as Shell’s interim successor suggest that he’s preparing for a hypothetical combination of NBCU with Warner Bros. Discovery?
William D. Cohan • April 26, 2023
The Post-Shell WBD-NBCU M&A Fantasy
With Shell out and Hulu in limbo, the fantasy of a Roberts-governed, Zaz-operated, post-Reverse Morris mega merger is more tantalizing than ever.
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Matthew Belloni • April 24, 2023
Shrapnel from the Jeff Shell Bombshell
Inside the investigation, fallout, and succession drama at NBCU after yet another executive ouster.
Peacock leader Kelly Campbell. Demand for original series on Peacock grew 75 percent between 2021 and 2022, according to Parrot Analytics.
Julia Alexander • January 31, 2023
Peacock’s Double-Edged Sword
Long derided as a streaming afterthought, Peacock has hit 20 million subscribers and doubled revenue. But does it have enough promise, and does NBCU have enough cash, to make it Comcast’s future in the D.T.C. space?
Rachel Maddow
Dylan Byers • April 15, 2022
The Maddow Iceberg
Maddow’s non-surprise surprise announcement has been foreshadowed for months. So why doesn’t the network have a viable solution? Is 20 percent Maddow at 1.25x or so the price really better than nothing? And at what cost?