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Netflix somehow delivers NFL playoff-sized audiences with bad regular-season matchups, ESPN also scores major ratings wins with crummy minor bowls, and Taylor Sheridan jumps the shark
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January 05, 2026
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Hollywood’s renewed optimism gives way to the ‘pending impact of meaningful consolidation’ in 2026
After making his group’s annual pilgrimage to Los Angeles just before the holidays, MoffettNathanson equity analyst Robert Fishman wrote about how last year’s notable turn towards optimism, marked by media executive “hopes that the worst may be behind us,” had given way to “a new reality with the pending impact of meaningful consolidation.”
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