Discovery posts stronger than expected profits as ad sales recover
NY Post
Discovery, owner of channels like The Food Network, TLC and Animal Planet, beat Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations, due in part to the rebound in advertising sales following last year’s economic fallout from the pandemic.
Nonetheless, shares of Discovery fell over 5 percent in midday trading, as the company reported lower TV ratings and meager growth in streaming. “TV ratings are collapsing,” Lightshed Partners analyst Rich Greenfield said on CNBC Tuesday. “Advertising revenues are lower in 2021 than in 2019”
Robert Mueller is dead, but his toxic legacy lives on in the destroyed lives of the innocent victims targeted by the Russia collusion probe that bears his name.
An Air Canada flight attendant was violently thrown from the plane when it crashed into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport Sunday night — and was still strapped into her jumpseat when she was found, sources said.
Unmasked ICE agents have been deployed at major airports across the country Monday — and they’re already being hounded by flyers and photographers.
Police tackled a 13-year-old boy they somehow mistook for a tatted-up 22-year-old suspect at a deli in New Jersey on Friday, sparking an internal investigation as the teen’s family demands accountability.
An illegal Venezuelan migrant who entered the US under the Biden administration was charged with murdering a Loyola University Chicago freshman from New York during a walk at the Windy City’s lakefront Thursday morning.
Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo and a host of others.
The TSA funding crisis is wreaking havoc at Big Apple airports, with frustrated air travelers waiting up to three hours just to check in for their flights.
Travelers at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport faced a hellish travel weekend, with TSA wait lines reportedly lasting nearly three hours because of the partial government shutdown.
Imagine if Allied intelligence had located Adolf Hitler in late May 1944 and killed him before the Normandy invasion. Imagine that in the same hour, strikes eliminated Hitler’s designated successor, the head of the German Armed Forces High Command, the chief operational planner of the war effort, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, responsible for defending Western Europe, and the rest of Germany’s field marshals and senior commanders.
Rep. Kevin Kiley explained California’s voter ID during an appearance Thursday on “Straight Shooter with Stephen A,” on SiriusXM, prompting a stunned response from host Stephen A. Smith as the conversation turned to election integrity and federal reform.
A Rockland County mailman’s attack on a 4-year-old Jewish boy is not being treated as a hate crime because cops don’t believe it had anything to do with the tot’s religion, police told The Post on Sunday.
ICE officers will be deployed to airports to help clear the horrendous security lines for the TSA, which ran out of funding more than a month ago because of a Democrat shutdown, President Trump announced Sunday.
Gov. Hochul was fittingly ridiculed last week for urging wealthy New Yorkers who fled the state for Florida to return and bring their rich friends with them.