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ViacomCBS has named Amazon exec Naveen Chopra as chief financial officer, effective August 10,, succeeding Christina Spade, who will transition into an advisory role after the company's second quarter earnings call. Chopra joins ViacomCBS from Amazon where was CFO of Devices and Services, the division housing the…

Satellite radio powerhouse and Pandora parent SiriusXM plans to raise $1 billion in a private debt offering and will use proceeds along with cash to redeem previous debt and interest obligations. In a filing with the SEC, announcing the sale the comany noted the onoing tough environment created by the COVID-19 virus…

Satellite radio giant SiriusXM continues to expand, announcing a $75 million investment for a minority stake in the privately-held open audio platform SoundCloud.   The companies didn't specify the size of the stake but it comes with two new seats for Sirius on the SoundCloud board.   SoundCloud said it will use the…

Just two weeks after the Season 1 finale, the CW has ordered a second season of its sci-fi action series Pandora. It’s slated for premiere in 2020. Set in the year 2199, Pandora stars Priscilla Quintana (Polaroid, Traffik) as Jax (aka Pandora), a resourceful young woman who has lost everything after the death of her…

Starlings Entertainment, a film financing and production company, is formally expanding into television with the official launch of Starlings Television, led by studio executive and producer Chris Philip. The company, headed by CEO Karine Martin and President Jeffrey W. Stentz, is coming off a successful investment in…

Hours after announcing its new anthology series Two Sentence Horror Stories, the CW has unveiled more summer premiere dates, along with those for the series finales of Jane the Virgin and iZombie. New drama series Pandora and Bulletproof — the latter a UK acquisition — will bow on Tuesday, July 9, and Sunday, July 28…

EXCLUSIVE: Priscilla Quintana (Traffik) is set as the lead in Pandora, the CW's upcoming summer sci-fi action series, from Mark A. Altman and Steve Kriozere’s (ABC’s Castle) Radioactive Fishtank, Vital Signs Entertainment and Starlings Television. Rounding out the series regular cast are Oliver Dench (Ride), Raechelle…

Roger Lynch, former CEO of Pandora and Dish Network's Sling TV, has been named CEO of Condé Nast in a move that signals the role technology will play in the future of traditional media companies. Jonathan Newhouse, newly appointed chairman of the company, said a "thorough search" had determined that Lynch is "the…

UPDATED with closing stock prices. SiriusXM, the satellite radio company controlled by John Malone’s Liberty Media, is buying Pandora Media in a $3.5 billion aimed at creating a larger rival to Apple Music and Spotify in the intensifying streaming music battle. The all-stock deal imputes a market valuation for the…

Liberty Media is still interested in iHeartMedia. CEO Greg Maffei told investors during today’s first quarter earnings call that the radio and online broadcaster’s assets are complementary to Liberty’s music holdings. Liberty has a controlling interest in satellite radio broadcaster SiriusXM, which, in turn, holds a…

Roger Lynch is saying goodbye to Dish Network’s Sling TV, and hello to Pandora Media. The music streaming company picked Lynch to be CEO, ending the search for a replacement for Tim Westergren who left in June. Lynch will join the company, and its board, on September 18. Pandora also says that former Sony…

The leadership changes at Pandora Media are taking place faster than expected: Today the company says that CEO Tim Westergren decided to step down, with CFO Naveen Chopra filling in as interim CEO. President Mike Herring and CMO Nick Bartle also left. In addition to relinquishing the CEO job, Westergren is leaving the…