Eleven Months That Rewired Your Media

Play the “Under New Management” puzzle

You didn't change the channel — the channel changed owners. In under a year: CBS's parent sold to David Ellison's Skydance. MSNBC left NBC and gave up its own name. TikTok's U.S. operation took on American part-owners, with dad Larry Ellison's Oracle among them. And the company behind HBO and CNN agreed to a $110.9 billion sale — to the same family that bought CBS.

We cut the takeover wave into five dated milestones and scrambled them. Your job: rebuild the timeline. Lock it in and the real dates animate into place — and here’s the part we’re proud of: every event carries three corroborating sources. SEC filings. Company announcements. Independent coverage. Check any of them; check all of them. That’s the standard now.

The order is the story. Can you rebuild it?

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