EXCLUSIVE: AT&T is about to give us some major Shark Tank vibes with a film twist with their upcoming AT&T Presents: Untold Stories pitch event which will livestream on April 22 ahead of the Tribeca Film Festival which kicks off April 24 and continues through May 5.

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The White House has declined a request by two House Democrats for documents that could show whether President Donald Trump tried to block AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in a letter dated Monday to Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and antitrust subcommittee…

And then there were two. Hulu, which only a month ago was owned by four big media companies — Disney, 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and AT&T/Warner Media — now will be co-owned by Disney and NBCU. AT&T and Hulu have struck a deal for AT&T to sell its minority stake in Hulu back to the video streaming joint venture.

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WarnerMedia has denied that owner AT&T is considering selling the European arm of HBO. This comes after a report in the Financial Times this morning.

WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey has put his name to the on-the-record denial, an unusual move for a major media company. The newspaper had claimed that AT&T had held interna…

Rebekka Rockafeller, HBO’s senior VP of digital products, and Gilman Wong, senior VP of digital products and chief architect, have both left the premium network amid an ongoing restructuring at AT&T-owned WarnerMedia.

Their exit follows those of several well-established executives in departments that have been earmarke…

As a knock-on effect of last week’s resolution of a carriage dispute between AT&T and Viacom, DirecTV will soon add several Viacom networks to both of its subscription tiers.

The channels will become available April 5 on the $50-a-month Plus level and the $70-a-month Max level. Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., MTV, BET and Comed…

Media mavens long ago marked next week’s New York City premiere of Game of Thrones as a major date on the 2019 calendar. That night will see the beginning of the end of HBO’s biggest series ever at a moment of significant upheaval for the network and its parent, the AT&T-owned WarnerMedia.

Tuesday night’s sendoff for V…

Sal Petruzzi, a publicity executive with nearly 16 of experience at Turner, plans to exit the company as AT&T-owned parent WarnerMedia continues a major restructuring.

Over the past several years, Petruzzi led U.S. communications for Turner, serving as the main rep for former uber-boss David Levy. In a farewell memo…

UPDATED with closing prices. Shares in Viacom, which have had an up-and-down 2019, jumped 4% to close at $26.32 on the news in the pre-dawn hours that the company reached a new carriage deal with AT&T.

Trading volume was more than twice the normal average, with shares generally ranging between $26.50 and $27 as investo…

The threatened blackout of Viacom's cable networks on AT&T's platforms has been averted after the two companies finally hammered out a new carriage deal.

This comes after their current deal expired on Friday night.

The two companies announced that they had come to an agreement just after 1am PST meaning that Viacom cha…

UPDATE at 5:45PM PT: Viacom and AT&T are still at the negotiating table trying to hammer out a new carriage deal, nearly two days past the expiration of the previous contract, people familiar with the talks are telling Deadline this evening.

One sign possibly pointing to a resolution is that Viacom has stopped running …

WarnerMedia chief John Stankey has told employees that he plans to add a Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer to the executive ranks of the AT&T subsidiary.

The message comes during a period of transition for the company formerly known as Time Warner, which has seen the top executives of all of its business units exit o…