Showtime is not profitable and they couldn't find a buyer to assume the debt. McCarthy now has until 2025 to turn it around. It truly is "Showtime". Paramount plans to merge its Paramount+ and Showtime businesses, a consolidation of linear and... —  read more 

With PARA approaching $16/share it reminds me that history might not repeat itself but it sure does rhyme. Only this time, content creators are eating Bob's lunch and there's no Hulu deal coming to bail us out. November 4 2008: Subject: On behalf... —  read more 

the reisenbach honeymoon is over

Is it true the packages last month were cut compared to past rounds? It used to be 20 years guaranteed a year. Is that still the case?

The former NBC exec also added that he wants his studios to take “full advantage” of the Paramount Global ecosystem across broadcast, cable and streaming but also continue to sell to third-party platforms... —  read more 

I don’t care about twitter, but removing ourselves from most peoples’ primary source of news is asinine. When you hate the customer, they are just going to hate you... —  read more 

When you are laid off after many years of service, always meeting insane quarterly goals. Paramount does not care about their employees. Shame on you Bob, Cheeks and all you ba----ds trying to save a penny without considering the value said "numbers"... —  read more 

We all know Showtime layoffs are coming. But when?

Paramount Global is expected to lay off fewer than 100 employees in Los Angeles and New York, The Wrap has confirmed. The majority of the cuts will impact the company’s ad sales group, which has been undergoing a transformation overseen by new... —  read more 

Are more layoffs scheduled for Thursday and if so what groups or locations?

What a literal catastrophe. All those VC investments have dried up and now thanks to their mandates, most of the customers have been chased away by political nonsense... —  read more 

CEO and execs said on the earnings call that Paramount is eyeing meaningful and sizable cost cuts involving both labor and non-labor expenses by end of this quarter. Will we see another December 2008 replay before the holidays? Predictions to... —  read more 

the part that everyone doesn’t seem to get yet is that this company and industry are dead. there aren’t sweeter deals coming down the road. take what you can get now because individual creators have rendered legacy media completely... —  read more 

It shows that everybody is tired of the management's cr-p and unrealistic expectations placed on all of us. Even with the job market not being as hot as it once was, many are choosing to walk away. If we had normal management, this would be noticed... —  read more 

Along with the hiring freeze comes rumors of buyouts, mostly in news, but could be all over. Six months, which is a lousy deal. Considering the awful management decisions in the last three years, they should offer 2 wks./yr. and people would spin the... —  read more 

The entire CBS Television City MPD West department was shut down today and everyone fired. NY had been stealing all their work and finally migrated all the west coast files over there and then flushed everyone. Hope that entire sh---y company burns... —  read more 

no viewers, no money, no contract https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/comedian-trevor-noah-leave-the-daily-show-after-seven-years-2022-09-30/ And there's more coming....

Does anyone know what’s going on with the hiring freeze? Length of time, etc? Or possible explanations. I’ve been told they aren’t filling any positions for those who leave.

Enough is enough, my 7 and 10 year olds have been in a class room with 30 other kids for almost a year now without mask, most of them un-vaced with no major out breaks yet your still making us wear mask and get tested and we are vac'ed and boosted... —  read more 

The president said last night on our network that the pandemic is over so why are we still testing? Management say's its the unions setting the policy, if that's true stop costing so many union and non-union workers work. Most every other network has... —  read more 

who else here with a uterus had to painfully listen to Bob flounder around to try to justify why paramount keeps donating to anti-abortion legislators. also i just hate these bob lives, there’s barely any helpful information. the merit increase... —  read more 

The company has hired upper and middle management with track records , usually two to five years at a clip in their résumés, of downsizing. Check out some of these folks on LinkedIn. One listed acumen of handling M&A (mergers and acquisitions) while... —  read more 

Rumor is people are quitting within a specific area of Viacom/CBS, now Paramount rebranded. Who runs this area and why aren't they being dealt with properly? Perhaps the company has sunk to a new low point where the philosophy of "why lay them off if... —  read more 

People are still working from home while essential staff has no ability to do so; never has. Yet, compensation from the company for essential workers vanished a long time ago. Time to bring back the compensation or bring back the non-essential... —  read more 

Protests in front of 1515 wouldn’t take long to get attention. ViacomCBS needs to acknowledge the absurd about of freelancers it has in full-time, staff positions simply to avoid paying for benefits. THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE THEM!!! It’s... —  read more 

Or have you, like me, lost all motivation and are hardly doing even the bare minimum?

I started looking after a friend warned me that with the recession looming, now might be my last chance to leave my current job and find something equal or better. Well, I've been looking for the past month and I've already had several interviews and... —  read more 

It has come to the attention that company has given raises to those who earn under 60k. Major adjustments for some. Nothing to the employees over that amount. So if are are 15 year employee making over that threshold, even a dollar, you get... —  read more 

Horrible management, the worst I've ever had the displeasure to work for. First of all, most of them are incompetent. Second of all, they love to micromanage our every move for no good reason. And third of all, they use intimidation tactics to keep... —  read more 

Just Ignoring it doesn't make it disappear. RTO has been a sh-t show and colleagues have been catching covid but yes... announce that the pandemic is over...

In NYC, and other cities, given the uptick in violent crime and as----t in general, one would think the logical move would be for the company to provide hybrid models for ALL employees, not just management/clerical. Instead, ViacomCBS seems hellbent... —  read more 

Given the plethora of veeps running the abysmal CBS morning show, and two co-presidents to boot, it's inevitable layoffs of the underlings must occur. Remember, this is the network that fires TDs when ratings slump.

Maybe the Lord will have mercy on me and make sure I'm in the next round.

If there's any truth the company may sell after settling, whether to or Amazon or anyone else, it might behoove the membership to vote no, regardless of the contractual offer. Why give the present management an easy out?

Paramount is who-ing out Star Trek the way Disney wh--es out Star Wars. Pi-ps, all.

Rumors regarding an Amazon purchase of a Paramount content-only transaction making the financials this evening. Unknown as to what will happen with the brick and mortar parts that remain; possible liquidation.

So you have enough money for yet another ENTIRE rebrand, but you don’t have enough to staff employees? Quit stringing us along! We are full time and deserve benefits!!

The list of things that should be changed here is so long, that it is not easy to single out just one thing that would be the highest priority. What would you change here first?

Sounds like Bakish and co. are doing everything they can to distance themselves from the affiliate model and stream on. Better hope they develop better content, because streaming Ghosts ain't gonna cut it.