Paramount Global-Skydance Media Merger Gets FCC Approval
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Season 27 premiered Wednesday on Comedy Central with an episode titled "Sermon on the 'Mount" -- as in Paramount
South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone hit the Comic-Con stage on Thursday night, a day after the Season 27 premiere of their smash Comedy Central series, “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” made waves for taking on both Donald Trump and “South Park’s” Paramount corporate parents.
South Park is finally going to Paramount+ in the U.S.. Paramount Global’s streamer has reached an agreement with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s company Park County on a five-year global licensing deal,
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Executive at Paramount Global can breathe a sigh of relief with FCC approval of its $8 billion merger with Skydance Media
South Park,” Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have all been critical of their own company and President Trump this week.
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Plus, Hulk Hogan, the pro wrestler who brought the sport to new heights of mainstream popularity, died at the age of 71.
Upon the deal’s closing, Skydance and its financial partners are set inject $1.5 billion in cash into Paramount. However, that’s intended to go toward reducing Paramount’s long-term debt ($14.16 billion as of Q1 of 2025) to help stabilize its balance sheet.
The “shitty establishment” Stewart is referencing seems to be Paramount as a whole, though he doesn’t spare Comedy Central either. “I’d like to believe that without The Daily Show… I don’t know. Comedy Central is kind of like muzak at this point,
The roasting comes right after Trey Parker and Matt Stone's $1.5 billion global streaming deal with the Comedy Central parent company
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The revival’s third season (and the show’s eleventh overall) will launch on Sept. 3 at the basic cabler. The first two seasons of the revival debuted on Paramount+, but it was announced in June 2024 that the series would be airing on Comedy Central going forward.