Merger negotiations between two corporate cousins, CBS and Viacom, have taken an ugly turn. Now there's some serious gamesmanship going on, with Chief Executive Leslie Moonves on one side and the vice chairwoman of CBS and Viacom, Shari Redstone, on the other.
China will create a direct link between its top stock market and London by the end of 2018, the latest sign that Beijing is opening its doors to more foreign investment.
ESPN will launch its subscription streaming service, ESPN+, commemorating the occasion with "The Last Days of Knight," a first-rate documentary about the excesses of basketball coach Bob Knight, under the award-winning "30 for 30" banner, which shifts exclusively to this venue. And yet, the project merely adds to the debate of what qualifies as the kind of must-have content that would justify forking out more cash for it.