At least twice a month, Lizzy Laufters could count on getting a free coffee. A member of the Dunkin’ loyalty program, Ms. Laufters, a 22-year-old digital account executive for a public affairs firm in Raleigh, N.C., stacked up points by frequently buying her favorite drink — a medium caramel iced coffee with two creams and two sugars. Then, last fall, […]

The DGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers will begin negotiations for a new film and TV contract on May 10. The DGA’s current contract expires June 30. The WGA, meanwhile, starts its contract talks with the AMPTP on March 20. Related Story WGA West President Meredith Stiehm Talks Tough Ahead Of AMPTP Negotiations, Says Guild Is “Good […]

The criminal complaint against Carlos Watson, which was unsealed this week, contains some jaw-dropping accusations, including that Watson, the founder of Ozy Media, lied about its numbers, fabricated documents and asked a colleague to impersonate a YouTube executive on a conference call with Goldman Sachs. But there is also a less headline-grabbing accusation: When making his case to potential investors, […]

UPDATED with Tyler Perry interest: Paramount Global is talking with Tyler Perry about a deal for BET Media as the conglom explores a sale of a majority stake in the division. Perry, who has a strong relationship with BET CEO Scott Mills as well as Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish, is eyeing the asset as his own producing deal with […]

SiriusXM is the latest media company to lay off staff as the industry retrenches. CEO Jennifer Witz said today the satellite radio broadcaster, podcaster, owner of streaming music service Pandora and home to Howard Stern, will be cutting 475 jobs, or 8% of its workforce “to secure the long-term health and profitability of our business.” She noted that cost cuts […]

Guitarist Gary Rossington, the last original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, who survived their 1977 plane crash and played with the band until this year, died Sunday. He was 71. “It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today,” the band wrote on […]

The largest network of roads in America, the Interstate Highway System, aka the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, broke ground in 1956. Built to carry the nation’s heaviest traffic, it is about 48,000 miles long. It stretches across all 50 states and parts of Puerto Rico.  One of the Interstate Highway System sections, the I-45, […]

According to Henley & Partner’s “Wealth Report 2023”, there are 5.3 million millionaires in the U.S., 9,630 centi-millionaires, and 770 billion in the country. A centi-millionaire is worth at least $100 million.  The city with the largest number of rich people in America, with 340,000 millionaires, a staggering number. Henley puts it into another context.  “Perhaps most notably, total wealth […]