Brian Steinberg

Bill Maher’s long-running “Real Time” is getting more time across the Warner Bros. Discovery portfolio. CNN will start running episodes of the program on Saturday nights at 8 p.m., a day after their original broadcasts on HBO. The show will also continue to be available live and on demand on the streaming platform Max. “The […]

Tired of forking over hundreds of dollars for cable channels that aren’t always available? DirecTV may have a solution, albeit a controversial one. The satellite content distributor said Sunday it would give its subscribers the choice to “opt out” of receiving the feeds of local TV stations “for as long as they want,” and get […]

Bill Maher is getting more time for “Real Time” at HBO and its parent, Warner Bros. Discovery. HBO has renewed the program for two more season, meaning that it will be served up via HBO and its streaming counterpart, Max, through 2026.  “Two more years in the dream job of a lifetime, on the network […]

To know Michael Kassan is to know the people in his Rolodex. At least, that’s the promise. The Madison Avenue impresario, who once ran a media-buying operation and parlayed his experience there into a role as the ultimate go-between among ad agencies, big-spending clients and the media outlets that crave them, finds himself — at […]

NBCUniversal is testing a new game for the Paris Olympics. The Comcast-backed media conglomerate has for years launched every Summer Games with primetime coverage of the Opening Ceremonies that typically feature a top sportscaster like Mike Tirico or Bob Costas alongside a popular news anchor such as Savannah Guthrie or Katie Couric. In 2024, the […]

In a different era, Tucker Carlson used to post pictures during his Fox News broadcasts of Chris Cuomo working out, then poke fun at his one-time CNN rival. Now the two personalities are going to hash things out. Cuomo traveled to Florida for a one-on-one sit-down conversation with Carlson that is expected to air Monday, […]

Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News since early 2017, will leave the organization in a shake-up that will elevate three different executives, effectively separating the massive news outlet into three different pieces, all of which will report to Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal’s portfolio of news assets. Under a new structure, Libby Leist, the NBC […]