Thursday, June 18th, 2026 – 3:09 pm

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Linear TV is grabbing attention once again.

This time as the broadcast and streaming media worlds are being tied together by major M&A deals. There’s the recent news of Fox’s $22 billion acquisition of Roku and Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (will it be PWBD? Or another rebrand? TV Land waits on tenterhooks), which was approved by the Justice Department’s antitrust group.

Also this week on the Big Story podcast, our Convergent TV Editor Alyssa Boyle reports from the ground in Denver, where she’s attending the StreamTV show.