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Halt the funeral procession. On the same day the UFC announced an earth-shattering $7.7 billion deal with Paramount, Dana White, the promotion’s CEO and president, tells The Post that pay-per-view formatted events could still fit into its plans. “There’s no pay-per-view involved in this deal,” White said. “Let’s say there’s a scenario –– I am involved in boxing, I am …

Just how big of a surprise was the UFC’s bombshell $7.7 billion deal with Paramount and CBS? So big that even UFC CEO Dana White didn’t see it coming. “No, I didn’t think this is where we’d end up,” White said Monday during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” to discuss the new broadcast rights deal. “But this is …

EXCLUSIVE: The new, post-Skydance merger Paramount has two major TV studio units: the existing CBS Studios, led by David Stapf and overseen by Paramount Chair of TV Media George Cheeks, and the newly formed Paramount TV Studios, headed by former Skydance TV President Matt Thunell and overseen by Dana Goldberg, Co-Chair of Paramount Pictures and Chair of Paramount Television. In …

Paramount just acquired the US rights to UFC for seven years in a deal worth $7.7 billion dollars, . This contract begins in 2026 and covers the organization’s full slate of 13 marquee bouts and 30 Fight Night events per year. All matches and events will stream in the US on Paramount+ and select fights will simulcast on CBS. This …

Skydance’s Paramount Lands UFC Rights in $7.7 Billion Deal – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal UFC moving to Paramount in ’26 with 7-year deal  ESPN UFC agrees to groundbreaking $7.7 billion deal with Paramount and CBS, ditching pay-per-view model  Yahoo Sports UFC, Paramount+ announce landmark media rights agreement in exclusive partnership, nixing PPV model  CBS Sports Paramount Stock Is Rising on Seven-Year UFC Deal. …

Aug 11, 2025, 08:49 AM ET NEW YORK — Paramount will become the new home to all Ultimate Fighting Championship events in the U.S. under a seven-year agreement with TKO Group announced Monday. The deal has an average annual value of $1.1 billion, the companies said. Under the deal, Paramount will exclusively distribute the UFC’s full slate of its 13 …

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – FEBRUARY 01: (R-L) Michael Page of England punches Shara Magomedov of Russia in a middleweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at anb Arena on February 01, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) Chris Unger | Ufc | Getty Images Days after completing its merger with Skydance, Paramount has acquired the …

For the Redstone clan, the end with Paramount Pictures came much as it began 31 years ago – victory achieved after a long, bitter and highly public fight over a Hollywood institution. This time around, the win for Shari Redstone was securing the ability to sell Paramount Pictures, CBS, Paramount+, MTV, Nickelodeon and other legacy cablers to David Ellison’s Skydance …

Can you believe that there’s only four months left in 2025!? And that means that there are a lot of TV shows that have been canceled from different networks and streamers throughout the year. Just Jared is keeping track of all the major canceled series, and there are some major fan faves listed. There have been 2 shows canceled from …

On Thursday, a trio of Hollywood Reporter staffers attended a presentation by new Paramount owner David Ellison, who sat alongside his investors from RedBird Capital and new executives at his company’s Manhattan headquarters to lay out his vision for the embattled media firm. Ellison & Co. had just spent some $8 billion for the 113-year-old studio and have hopes — really, a need — to …