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UF Health now runs hospitals from Gainesville to St. Augustine. Experts disagree on what it means for patients

Nonprofit healthcare system UF Health opened a 99-bed hospital in northern St. Johns County Sept. 22, about 60 miles from its home campus in Gainesville.UF Health Durbin Park Hospital is the newest hospital in a system that has grown well beyond UF Health Shands Hospital, its first facility. Before the new addition, the UF Health hospital system had six licensed hospitals, about 2,900 beds, more than 280 physician practices and more than 27,000 employees, generating more than $6.5 billion in annual net revenue, according to a UF Health fact sheet for fiscal year 2025-26.

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Oct 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • alligator.org
Why award shows are leaving network TV for streaming

The Emmys move to Prime Video next year and the Oscars to YouTube in 2029. Shrinking ratings and rising rights fees made awards shows money losers for TV.

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Oct 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Medicare Advantage star ratings 2027: Winners and losers

Medica and Humana saw the greatest increases in the share of enrollees with plans that earned high star ratings.

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Oct 12 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • modernhealthcare.com
Aging for Amateurs: Putting humanity and dignity into science and medicine

Education at Medical University of South Carolina began to change decades ago by incorporating themes from classic Greek thinkers and saints about the need to uphold human dignity.

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Oct 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • postandcourier.com
Trump’s midterm road show reveals GOP troubles

Republicans need the president to mobilize voters, but his low approval ratings limit where he can help.

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Oct 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
DHT Holdings, Inc. Business Update

HAMILTON, BERMUDA, October 12, 2026 – DHT Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DHT) (“DHT” or the “Company”) today provides the following business update: For the third quarter of 2026, the Company estimates time charter equivalent (“TCE”) earnings for its fleet at $141,300 per day, comprising $167,100 per day for the Company’s VLCCs operating in the spot market and $114,200 per day for the Company’s VLCCs on time charter. These estimated TCE earnings are based on 2,055 revenue days during the quarter, of which

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Oct 12 • 4:33 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Player Ratings: Bournemouth Destroyed At The Bridge

A disastrous afternoon at Stamford Bridge left Bournemouth searching for answers after a humiliating 5-1 defeat to Chelsea. Cherries still remain winless in the Premier League and it's fair to say not many players covered themselves in glory this weekend.

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Oct 12 • 2:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day in the Face of Political Erasure

Overview: Indigenous Peoples’ Day offers an opportunity to recognize and celebrate Native peoples, confront historical revisionism and ongoing efforts to erase Indigenous contributions, and promote greater understanding of Native history, cultures, and sovereignty. Guest Opinion Falling on the second Monday of October, Indigenous Peoples Day is a chance to collectively celebrate the history, cultures, and […]

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Oct 11 • 10:14 PM EDT • Politics • nativenewsonline.net
The science, instinct and hard work behind Roosters’ success

Enter your email address to get each Tribune edition sent to your inbox Subscribe There’s a fair bit of unseen work that goes into winning an NRL premiership, dating back many months - just ask Simon Jones. The Sydney Roosters Head of Performance, who hails from Southland, has been in the thick of it. He played a lead role in guiding the 2026 champions through a marathon campaign that ended with a grand final win over the Newcastle Knights. The Roosters had to navigate the lengthy round-robin competition, including the pre-season, before playing through all four weeks of the finals series. It was a demanding stretch that tested the players and the staff responsible for keeping them on the field. “It is a hell of a beast, mate, to be honest,” Jones told The Roar Podcast. “There’s such a great group of staff there that know what they’re doing, and the boys are pretty professional.” Jones believed the Roosters managed the physical demands well, pointing to the health of the squad throughout the campaign and the decision to rest a significant portion of the playing group in the final round of the regular season. That call, made by head coach Trent Robinson and his coaching staff, proved valuable as the Roosters entered the finals with some energy in reserve. “We did finish the season physically where we needed to be, and we’d sort of had a pretty healthy squad all year,” Jones said. “To the team that do that, mate, mission accomplished, really.” It is the sort of work that often goes unnoticed when the spotlight falls on the players scoring tries and making match-winning plays, but Jones knows the cumulative effect of those decisions can be significant over a long season. After a win over Penrith had helped establish them as premiership favourites, losses to the Wests Tigers and Dolphins were followed by a defeat to the Panthers in the opening week of the finals. Rather than panic, the club refocused to position itself to challenge for the title. “The Tigers’ performance was probably the only one where you’re really quite disappointed because it’s hard to get to the top of the competition,” Jones told The Roar Podcast. “We had proof that we could; we knew what we needed to do. We just had to get back to that.” For Jones, the answer was not necessarily a radical change to the programme. It was about executing the basics consistently, both on the field and in preparation. “We just do the basics better than anybody else,” he said. “Whether that is actually the way you play the game or how you’re preparing, it’s just be really consistent, do the basics really, really well.” Like many professional sports teams, the Roosters are entrenched in sports science and performance data. The club has access to a range of information, including players’ sleep, GPS metrics and neuromuscular scores, helping staff assess how individuals are coping with training and competition. “We are very science-backed, and some people would say data-driven, but it’s people first,” he said. “The reason you collect all this data is to try and be the best for that person.” Jones said the club was also prepared to reconsider testing methods if they were not generating useful discussions or helping staff make better decisions. In an environment where technology is continually evolving, he believes experience and gut instinct remain important. “The data is no good unless you have conversations,” he said. “When you strip it right back, mate, trust the gut still and obviously, you know, just doing the basics really, really well.” The return of halfback Sam Walker provided a further example of the importance of individual determination and the work of the club’s medical team. Walker underwent ankle surgery late in the regular season, with his premiership campaign appearing in doubt. However, he was determined to return for the preliminary final. Jones said Walker was back at the training ground three days after surgery, walking freely enough to surprise those around him. While the surgeon’s work was crucial, Jones credited the halfback’s mindset as a major factor in the remarkable turnaround. “He was quite clear with Robbo after he got the surgery that he was going to make it back for the prelim finals,” Jones said. The Roosters’ performance programme also sits within a wider club culture that Jones believes is central to their success. Each season, players develop their own team mantra through a lengthy process facilitated by Robinson. It provides principles that the squad can connect to its actions on the field. Rather than simply carrying over the previous year’s wording after a successful campaign, the club repeats the process because the players’ ownership of it is what gives it meaning. “When it’s led, player-owned and player-led, mate, it’s really powerful,” Jones said. Get more from Logan Savory in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app Jones joined the Roosters in 2024 and said the environment had evolved as experienced players departed and younger members of the squad took on greater responsibility. Maintaining continuity in the club’s culture and preparation had helped the group navigate those changes. The premiership was a significant achievement for Jones, who acknowledged how difficult it was to win the NRL’s ultimate prize. However, he is already looking at how the performance programme can improve. “There’s still things within my role and things that I’d like to help improve at the club,” he said. For Jones and his team, the challenge now is to review the season, refine their systems and prepare for another campaign. The celebrations may have followed a memorable title win, but the work behind the scenes never really stops. The Southland Tribune is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Oct 11 • 9:14 PM EDT • Science • southlandtribune.substack.com
The Black British Business Awards 2026: Meet the winning leaders, innovators and changemakers shaping UK industry

Celebrating the brilliance, visibility and impact of Black British talent, this year's winners of The Black British Business Awards 2026 were chosen from Senior Leaders and Rising Stars spanning STEM, Fashion, Beauty & Consumer, Arts & Media, Entrepreneurs, Financial Services, Professional Services and Retail & Hospitality, underlining what can be achieved when organisations champion and amplify Black talent and allow it to #SHINE.

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Oct 11 • 9:00 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
What agilon health (AGL)'s Jackson Clinic ACO Expansion Means For Shareholders

In late September 2026, The Jackson Clinic expanded its relationship with agilon health by joining agilon’s Senior Health Connect ACO. This extended value-based care support from roughly 8,000 Medicare Advantage seniors to an expected 9,000 additional Traditional Medicare beneficiaries. This move deepens agilon health’s role in coordinating prevention-focused primary care across Medicare programs, which could influence medical cost trends, operating efficiency, and long-term contract...

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Oct 11 • 2:21 PM EDT • Health • simplywall.st
Oxford Metrics Forecasts Loss as Entertainment and Research Demand Weakens

Oxford Metrics cuts its 2026 outlook to an adjusted operating loss amid weaker demand, while acquiring Move AI assets and launching a £3 million buyback.

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Oct 11 • 1:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • finchannel.com
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Step Out for Birthday Date Night

Go inside Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift's date night celebrating his birthday.

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Oct 11 • 1:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Sunday football open thread

Rejoice, Spurs fans — Tottenham Hotspur are no longer bottom of the Premier League! …Okay, they’re still in the relegation zone and could fall behind Coventry City into 19th, but thanks to Fulham’s loss to Ipswich yesterday, Spurs are no longer the worst team in the Premier League! Isn’t that something worth celebrating? Well, maybe […]

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Oct 11 • 8:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Schneider Electric Acquires PTC in US$22.6bn AI Deal

Schneider Electric acquires PTC for $22.6bn in its biggest deal to date, accelerating its push into AI and industrial software for smarter manufacturing

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Oct 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • businesschief.com
Sunderland 0-2 Brighton Player Ratings and Fan Reaction

Ferdi Kadioglu dominates and Yasin Ayari shines as the Seagulls return from the break in style. Discover who dazzled and who struggled in this comprehensive individual performance breakdown.

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Oct 11 • 7:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating

If I gotta do it I want it on my terms.

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Oct 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Recommends Science-Based Thresholds to Target Dangerous Enhanced Kratom Products

Kratom products credit: CDPH DEA takes action based on updated recommendation from HHS October 11, 2026 - WASHINGTON - On Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services relesed the following: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided a new recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that establishes science-based thresholds for 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) and mitragynine pseudoindoxyl (MGPI), potent opioid compounds associated with products marketed as kratom. The Department of Justice today announced that DEA issued new Notices of Intent reflecting HHS’ updated scientific analysis and recommendations, including a new Notice of Intent for 7-OH and MGPI incorporating HHS’ recommended concentration and ratio thresholds. Following a review of available scientific data and comments, HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brian Christine, M.D., recommended that DEA use concentration or ratio-based thresholds to determine which products containing 7-OH and MGPI are subject to Schedule I control for purposes of temporary scheduling of these substances under the Controlled Substances Act. The recommendation is designed to target concentrated or chemically altered products while distinguishing them from natural botanical kratom products, which may contain trace amounts of 7-OH and MGPI. “We are drawing a clear line between natural kratom and dangerous, enhanced opioid products,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “We listened to the public, followed the science, and developed a clear recommended threshold for temporary scheduling that targets concentrated 7-OH and MGPI without sweeping natural botanical kratom into Schedule I. The Trump Administration will continue taking decisive action against dangerous products that fuel addiction while making sure our policies are grounded in rigorous science.” Under the recommendation, 7-OH and MGPI would be controlled in Schedule I for purposes of temporary scheduling when either substance alone, or their combined amount when both are present: Exceeds 1 milligram per gram in solid powders, encapsulated material, or other solid forms, or exceeds 1 milligram per milliliter in liquid preparations; or When the mass of mitragynine present divided by the mass of 7-OH, or MGPI, or the combined amount of 7-OH and MGPI if both present, is less than 100. The ratio-based approach reflects the alkaloid composition of natural kratom products and provides a way to identify products intentionally enhanced or concentrated with 7-OH or MGPI. Available scientific data indicate that 7-OH occurs naturally in botanical kratom at relatively low or trace levels, while some evidence reviewed by FDA suggests MGPI may also occur at trace levels in some natural or kratom-derived products. FDA's scientific review found that 7-OH is substantially more potent than morphine in preclinical studies, with available data indicating approximately two to nine times greater potency depending on the study. FDA also identified evidence supporting a meaningful risk of opioid-like physical dependence and withdrawal from MGPI. “Our recommendation gives DEA a scientifically supportable framework to distinguish natural botanical kratom from products that have been concentrated or manipulated to deliver dangerous levels of potent opioid compounds,” said Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brian Christine, M.D. “This approach allows us to focus on the products that pose the greatest threat to public health.” In July 2025, following an FDA scientific and medical evaluation, HHS recommended that 7-OH above a specified threshold be placed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. In July 2026, DEA announced its intent to temporarily schedule 7-OH above a specified threshold, and HHS simultaneously sought public comment on the proposed threshold. DEA subsequently temporarily placed MGPI and two synthetic 7-OH derivatives, MGM-15 and MGM-16, in Schedule I. Since then, questions have emerged about how scheduling could affect natural botanical kratom products potentially containing trace amounts of MGPI. The new HHS recommendation responds to those concerns by providing DEA with a more precise threshold based on both the concentration of 7-OH and MGPI and their relationship to mitragynine, the predominant alkaloid in kratom. HHS and FDA will continue working with DEA to protect Americans from dangerous concentrated and synthetic opioid products while ensuring federal policy is grounded in the best available science. Source: HHS

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Oct 11 • 6:20 AM EDT • Science • goldrushcam.com
GTA 6 Official Rating Revealed

The official rating for Grand Theft Auto 6 is now available, revealing interesting details about the upcoming game.

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Oct 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • gamerant.com
NVIDIA’s CUDA Moat Is Accelerating RTX Spark Laptop Sales, Higher 128GB Unified Memory Options Belonging To Surface Laptop Ultra Already Out Of Stock

NVIDIA’s CUDA platform is speeding up RTX Spark laptop sales, with the higher 128GB unified memory options of the Surface Laptop Ultra already out of stock

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Oct 11 • 5:26 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
"I Don't Think..." – Michael Carrick Claims Intensity Wasn't The Issue vs Spurs

A stoppage-time collapse and recurring midfield sluggishness haunt the Red Devils, forcing Michael Carrick to defend his squad's fitness levels after a frustrating stalemate against ten-man Tottenham.

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Oct 11 • 3:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Halloweenmas’: how the spooky one-nighter turned into a month-long spectacular

Welcome to Halloweenmas, weeks of themed fun and gifts – from costume parties to decorating trees – without the stress, rules or cost of Christmas

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Oct 11 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
Clover Health (CLOV) Stock Looks Reasonable Despite New 5 Star Ratings

Clover Health Investments has seen sharp swings in its share price in recent years, and the stock closed at US$4.79 most recently. With the business in the spotlight after new Medicare plan ratings, the question for investors is whether that price can be explained by its sales. The stock has delivered a very large 3 year return of about 365.0%, which puts a lot of weight on whether current revenue levels and future top line potential can support today’s valuation. Clover Health’s Medicare...

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Oct 10 • 10:32 PM EDT • Health • simplywall.st
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CVS Health (CVS) Opens New Pharmacy Sites As Undervalued Narrative Holds

CVS Health (CVS) is expanding its pharmacy-focused format by opening nearly 20 smaller neighborhood locations across the US in 2026, including a new Roxbury site in the Boston area. Recent headlines around CVS Health have mixed signals for investors, with Medicare Advantage star rating setbacks and a legal probe weighing on sentiment, while the extended Cardinal Health distribution deal and a reaffirmed dividend provide a steadier backdrop. Even after a one-day share price decline of 1.87%...

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Oct 10 • 10:10 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Barclays Keeps Their Hold Rating on UBISOFT Entertainment (0NVL)

Tipranks Press Release.

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Oct 10 • 9:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • theglobeandmail.com
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Player Ratings: Real Madrid 1–0 Villarreal

Thibaut Courtois: 8. Made four saves and came up big late on, when Real Madrid were down to 10 men and Villarreal were pushing for an equalizer. Trent Alexander-Arnold: 7. Played some incredible passes over the top to Mbappé. Less convincing defensively, despite not being tested particularly often. Ibrahima Konaté: 6.5. His passing was poor […]

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Oct 10 • 8:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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GTA 6 Official Rating Revealed

The official rating for Grand Theft Auto 6 is now available, revealing interesting details about the upcoming game.

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Oct 10 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • opencritic.com
Elevance Health (ELV) Stock May Be Undervalued Despite 2027 Medicare Advantage Plans

Elevance Health has delivered a solid share price run recently, and that move puts a spotlight on a simple question for investors who care about fundamentals. Is the current valuation of the stock properly anchored to the earnings the business is generating today? Over the past year, Elevance Health has returned 19.2%, which puts fresh pressure on the question of whether the earnings profile can carry the current share price. The planned 2027 Medicare Advantage offerings aim to simplify...

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Oct 10 • 2:29 PM EDT • Health • simplywall.st
Half-Time Player Ratings: Man Utd vs Spurs (Premier League)

Manchester United returned from the international break to face Tottenham Hotspur in a must-win match at Old Trafford.

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Oct 10 • 1:16 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jim Cramer Weighs MasTec’s (MTZ) Business Against the Selling Pressure

Toward the end of the October 6 lightning round of Mad Money, a caller asked about MasTec, Inc. (NYSE:MTZ). Jim Cramer acknowledged its operating performance but remained reluctant to buy, as he said: This thing has been crushed. I mean, it’s been crushed. And you know what? It’s doing pretty well. It’s not even that […]

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Oct 10 • 11:26 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
GE Vernova Leads 5 AI Stocks With Accelerating Growth

Accelerating revenue growth has whetted investor appetites.

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Oct 10 • 11:24 AM EDT • Business • investors.com
Is Elevance Health (ELV) Undervalued After Its Recent Share Price Rally?

Elevance Health (ELV) has been on investors’ radar after a recent share price move, with the stock last closing at US$412.70. That shift now meets a business generating US$201.1b in annual revenue. Recent trading has been firm, with a 1-day share price return of 2.93% and a 7-day share price return of 6.80%. Elevance Health’s year-to-date share price return of 16.50% and 1-year total shareholder return of 19.16% point to momentum building despite a small 3-year total shareholder return...

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Oct 10 • 11:14 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
TeraWulf to double data center size near Ashland; Ky. Power to add unit at Big Sandy

TeraWulf Inc. plans to double the capacity of its AI data center at the EastPark industrial park near Ashland a year ahead of schedule, which the two companies say would lead to lower residential electric bills for residential customers. Also, the data center could double in capacity again, TeraWulf says. Kentucky Power says it plans to add a new generating unit at the Big Sandy Power Plant near Louisa, Kentucky, as part of the expansion.

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Oct 10 • 6:30 AM EDT • Business • wvgazettemail.com
Louisville Stuns Florida State With 44-20 Comeback Victory

Seminoles Blow Early Lead in Costly ACC Loss The Louisville Cardinals delivered a dominant comeback Friday night, defeating Florida State 44-20 after overcoming an early 14 point deficit at L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium. What started as a promising performance for the Seminoles quickly turned into another frustrating road loss as Louisville took control and…

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Oct 9 • 11:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
MichAuto Investors Recognized by Crain's Detroit Business' 40 Under 40 Class of 2026

MichAuto is celebrating individuals from its investor companies who were recognized among Crain’s Detroit Business’ 40 Under 40.

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Oct 9 • 4:23 PM EDT • Business • michauto.org
Netflix’s Summer of Bummer

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) Today, I’ve got a guest post from longtime friend of the newsletter, Brandon Katz. I’ve been trying to find time all summer to look at Netflix’s straight-to-streaming film slate, but between a pre-planned trip and Nielsen moving up their streaming data timeline, I’ve been swamped. So I reached out to Brandon, one of my favorite fellow analysts, to write about it. And I feel like he captured the tone and data focus of the newsletter perfectly. You can connect with Brandon on LinkedIn and Twitter. Enjoy! Don’t worry, folks. You’re in safe hands with me. To ease any anxieties about an interloper in ESG’s domain, I’ll start by stealing one of his best framing devices: headlines. Box office flops are covered in the same way the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles eye pizza: with cartoonish insatiability. I would know. I’m a former reporter who wrote nearly identical headlines: Yet, intentionally or not, streaming misses get treated with kids gloves, filtered through a rosy lens: In the last six years, U.S. streaming viewership has become nearly as transparent as the box office, but the data often arrives weeks later, in a number of less intuitive metrics, and with nary an official budget to be found. This plays into the Wall Street-whispering narratives major streamers have been cultivating for years. They get a pass in a way that theatrical studios simply don’t. Subscribe Netflix’s Summer Slate Not a single Netflix original film released between May and August this year opened above 20 million U.S. TV hours, per Nielsen. That benchmark usually serves as the EntStrategyGuy’s floor for a streaming hit on Netflix. None of these films enjoyed a hit-cementing single week of 20-plus million hours during their runs. Netflix’s two best films were true crime docs, Maternal Instinct (16.5 million hours) and The Crash (19.7 million), the best overall week for a film this summer. Great for most other streamers, but not necessarily what we’re used to seeing from Netflix. For an overly-dramatic comparison, Happy Gilmore 2 opened last summer to around 47 million hours (celebrity cameos, baby!). Zooming out, the picture looks even worse. In 2026, Netflix’s five biggest scripted summer films posted the lowest average (28.6 million hours) and median (28.8 million hours) eight-week viewership totals of the past four years. Now, it’s unrealistic and unfair to expect Netflix to deliver a _KPop Demon Hunters-_sized hit every year. But it’s also not ideal to see the size of their hits shrinking over the last few summers. Let’s quickly run through some of the notable summer misses. Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein’s perfectly fine romcom, Office Romance, fell off the charts after 20 million hours in its first two weeks. Top films usually last for four-plus weeks. Starry titles ideally don’t decay that fast either. Homegrown star Millie Bobby Brown couldn’t prevent the snappy Enola Holmes franchise from diminishing returns. At 14.3 million U.S. hours, the third film posted roughly half of what the first two films did in their first two weeks. What’s on Netflix calculated that per-day global views were down nearly 60% from the second movie. The Whisper Man did okay with more than 36 million hours over its first four weeks. But I expected a little more juice from a film featuring Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, and Adam Scott. Kevin Hart’s Ladies First collected just 11.2 million hours total across two weeks. That’s a big miss for one of Netflix’s go-to stars. Plopping into the same bucket are Sunny Sandler’s Don’t Say Good Luck (10.3 million in two weeks) and John Cena’s Little Brother (17.5 million). Meanwhile, English-language originals Color Book (June 19), In the Hand of Dante (June 24) and Heartstopper Forever (July 17) never sniffed Nielsen’s Top 10 at all, despite needing only 2 to 5 million hours to land in the top ten most weeks. (By my count, eleven English-language scripted original films released between May and August did chart). It’s only fair to mention that Swapped (1-May) posted nearly 42 million U.S. hours over five weeks (the longest Netflix original run this summer) and is currently their eighth most-watched English-language film ever worldwide. Remarkably Bright Creatures (37 million, 4 weeks) and Voicemails for Isabelle (27 million, 4 weeks) weren’t bombs either. Still, overall, I think it’s fair to say this was a quieter summer season than we’re used to seeing from the market-leader. You might not realize that given the language commonly used in public analysis. The Twist Despite the starkly black-and-white tone of the coverage, here’s the twist: when many box office bombs arrive on streaming, their viewership looks a whole lot like many of Netflix’s supposedly successful summer releases. Hmm, where have we heard that one before? Masters of the Universe topped out at $65 million stateside against a $170 million budget_._ I’ll admit, Skeletor ripping sleeveless curls as a gym bro and bodyslamming Adam’s co-workers was funny. But, much to the chagrin of my bank account, my laughter doesn’t launch franchises. Yet the He-Man reboot opened to 19.6 million hours (from a Wednesday five-day opening instead of just one weekend), on par with Hoppers on Disney+ (19.4 million). It put up nearly 47 million hours over its first six weeks, bigger than all of Netflix’s summer releases. Pretty darn healthy and likely to land among the 25 most-watched movies on streaming this year. Sticking with Amazon, The Sheep Detectives just barely broke even at the box office with $133 million worldwide (and only $66 million domestic). I never expected cloven-hooved, cud-chewing mammals to be able to bring me to tears. Yet that’s exactly how I found myself at the end of this surprisingly affecting movie (#NoShame). It was likely the unexpected quality in a family-friendly film that powered its streaming over-performance. Sheep Detectives delivered a solid run for Prime video netting 26.2 million hours! How about franchise IP? Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu had the lowest opening ($81 million) and lowest-grossing Disney-era live-action Star Wars film ($178 million domestic). One day before release, its Heat score (19.8%)—audiences who list their interest as a 7/7—fell behind blockbusters Wicked (21%), Superman (23%), Fantastic Four: First Steps (23%), Michael (23%), Toy Story 5 (26%) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (27%), according to Greenlight Analytics. The urgent enthusiasm just wasn’t there. On streaming, Mando opened to weeks of 12.1 million, 6.1 million and 2.7 million hours (21 million total) over its first three frames. Not the numbers Lucasfilm was hoping for nor the numbers of a streaming hit. But they’re in the same vicinity as some Netflix summer releases with $345 million at the global box office to offset a smidgen of the pain. Final Thoughts So why oh why does this nuance gap exist? Four key reasons: Data Literacy: A “$100 million opening” just makes sense. After decades of box office reporting, even casual movie fans are well-versed in the benchmarks of hits and home runs. There’s an immediate shorthand. But “16.5 million” hours doesn’t land nearly as cleanly. Despite leaps of progress, the streaming ratings era is still in its infancy compared to theatrical. The EntStrategyGuy and I met thanks to a late 2010s group chat of data nerds hungry to find a shred of certainty in nebulous streaming performance. I’m not surprised to see “No. 1 on Netflix” still getting misconstrued out in the wild. Timing: By Friday morning, we have the box office’s Thursday night previews totaled, allowing us to better project the weekend’s expectations. From there, ticket sales are reported daily. By Sunday, the film’s fate is usually finalized, at least in terms of public perception. In streaming, Nielsen recently improved its delay to…two weeks. The medium isn’t forced to contend with instant gratification as harshly. Financials: Theatrical film budgets are a mere Google away. Profit and loss is calculated in the cold and unforgiving naked light of day for all to see. But finding the vast majority of streaming exclusive movie budgets requires the forensic investigation skills of a Criminal Minds detective. Also, it’s very difficult to calculate how much revenue/value a straight-to-streaming films provides a streamer. This is why there are so few stories about streaming original movies “losing X amount of money”. On top of that, marketing budgets are far greater for theatrical movies than streaming exclusive movies, which leads to earlier and better awareness. This then translates to a wider pool of potential interest. Narrative Control: Netflix is the only major streaming service to publish weekly first-hand viewership data and annual engagement reports. Naturally, some headlines borrow their first-hand framing**.** Other streamers benefit from their comparative lack of transparency. They may occasionally announce vague performance platitudes such as Apple TV’s Mayday becoming its “biggest film debut on the platform to date over its first 18 days,” and that it ranked No. 1 with left-handed viewers in its first weekend. (Fine, I made up that second one). But, for the most part, they keep first-hand viewership shrouded in mystery to avoid bad press. Especially for outlets that demand multiple articles per day from their writers, it’s an easy (and understandable) way for some reporters to hit their daily article quota by just repeating what the streamers have told them. TL:DR version: Streaming-exclusive movies are asked to do different things than theatrical movies, but that doesn’t mean they should escape judgment. Both still need to draw enough eyeballs to justify their cost within the proper performance contexts. The more cleanly we can inject a little nuance into streaming analysis, the better we’ll understand the audience and content trends that drive this industry. And that’s what all of this is really about: knowing what audiences actually want! Brandon Katz is the Director of Insights & Content Strategy at Greenlight Analytics where he focuses on evaluating the ever-fluid media landscape to unearth understanding, opportunity and value. Greenlight Analytics is the entertainment intelligence consulting company redefining how Hollywood finds, understands, and activates audiences. Prior to joining Greenlight Analytics, he served as the senior entertainment industry strategist at Parrot Analytics, and as a full-time entertainment industry reporter covering the Xs and Os of Hollywood, most notably with TheWrap and the Observer.

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Southwest Washington House race shifts toward Democrats

The Cook Political Report moved its rating of southwest Washington's 3rd Congressional District race from a toss-up to "lean Democratic."

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Community Science Takes Centre Stage on World Migratory Bird Day

World Migratory Bird Day marks its second peak day of the year by celebrating the people whose observations help understand bird migration,

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H-E-B Crowns 2026 Quest For Texas Best Winners

H‑E‑B named the winners of its 13th annual Quest for Texas Best, celebrating five standout small businesses and the Texas-made products poised to become customers’ next favorites. Selected from a record-breaking 978 entries representing more than 500 companies statewide, the five winners shared $110,000 in cash prizes, with the Grand Prize recipient earning the title of “Texas Best” and placement on H‑E‑B shelves.

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Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for Oct. 9

Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships, products and purchases across the sports business industry. PERSONNEL X Games Appoints Sports Steve Rogers as Chief Operating Officer X Games has named sports and entertainment executive Steve Rogers as chief operating officer, as the company continues the expansion of the MoonPay X Games …

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Craig Melvin reveals reason for recent “Today” absence: ‘I don’t get to miss work a whole lot’

The anchor was in his hometown celebrating a special occasion.

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Trump Administration Announces $6 Billion in Science and Technology Initiatives

Washington — President Donald Trump’s administration has announced more than $6 billion in science and technology initiatives aimed at accelerating research in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nuclear-powered space exploration and …

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Cook Political Report tilts 18 House races toward Democrats

The political environment keeps deteriorating for Republicans.

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COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The Coldwater Ponderosa Steakhouse is celebrating seven years of successful operation u...

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Eighteen More House Race Ratings Move in Democrats’ Favor

In the final weeks of the election, Republicans have hoped that a massive ad campaign effort could dent Democratic candidates' images and shore up Republicans struggling to free themselves of the anchor of President Donald Trump.With less than four weeks to go, that heavy spending has yet to move the needle.

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UnitedHealth, Aetna, HCSC star ratings slip

Only fifteen Medicare Advantage contracts earned the highest score under the Star Ratings program for 2027.

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Real estate investors are snapping up Sheetz properties

Buyers are counting on the initial 15-year leases with five five-year renewal options up to 40 total years generating steady returns for decades.

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Main Line Health booked a $134 million increase in medical malpractice reserves in fiscal 2026

The large medical malpractice reserve helped turn what would have been a $75 million operating profit into a $33 million loss for the 12 months that ended June 30, Main Line officials said.

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India's TCS rises on AI revenue, international business growth

Shares of information technology firm Tata Consultancy Services rose on Friday on accelerating AI-related revenue and ​growth in its international business.

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Seminole Tribe Sues DraftKings for Running Illegal Sports Betting in Florida - WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM

The battle over sports betting rights in Florida is heading to court with the Seminole Tribe defending its exclusive rights to sports gambling in the state. The Seminole Tribe is suing DraftKings and CEO Jason Robins, claiming the company violated Florida’s 2021 Gaming Compact and is operating an illegal sports betting business. Through the 2021

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Beth Israel Lahey Health Names Peter Shorett as President and Chief Executive Officer

Following a national search, the Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) today announced the appointment of Peter Shorett as the organization’s next President and CEO, effective January 2027. Since joining BILH in 2019, Shorett has served in a number of senior leadership roles, including most recently as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Shorett has led the performance, growth, and strategy of the health system, during which time he was instrumen

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Florida voters express dissatisfaction with political candidates skipping debates

Political ads are saturating Florida's airwaves, with attack ads like "Byron Donalds is a liar" and "David Jolly wants to tax you more!" playing nonstop, but debate stages remain empty in some of the state's biggest races, leaving voters questioning why candidates won’t face each other.

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Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE:FUN) Stock Price Target Lowered at Citigroup

Citigroup lowered their price target on Six Flags Entertainment from $17.00 to $13.00 and set a "neutral" rating for the company in a report on Thursday.

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Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) Stock Trades Up, Here Is Why

Shares of global online betting powerhouse Flutter Entertainment (NASDAQ:FLUT) jumped 4.4% in the afternoon session after Citi analyst Monique Pollard upgraded the company from a Neutral rating to a Buy rating. According to StreetInsider, Susquehanna analyst Joseph Stauff separately cut his price target to $100 from $115 and kept a Positive rating. He said third-quarter profit is likely to be lower and that the weaker result is already discounted. The stock, he said, is most sensitive to FanDuel

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A.M. Best revises Kroger captive rating outlook

A.M. Best said Thursday it revised the outlook on the long-term issuer credit ratings of Queen City Assurance and Vine Court Assurance, food retailer Kroger’s two Vermont-domiciled captive insurers…

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City council debates higher taxes on big corporations, expanding small business exemptions

The proposal could exempt 18,000 small businesses from city taxes while generating millions in new revenue, but critics warn it could drive companies away.

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Cost Concerns Dominate as Public’s Economic Ratings Turn More Negative

The costs of many household essentials are a top economic concern for most Americans – much as they were four years ago on the eve of the last midterm election.

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With Americans in a Sour Mood, Democratic Voters Are More Engaged in Midterms

The 2026 midterm election comes amid deep public dissatisfaction with the state of the nation and near-record low approval ratings for Trump.

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The states that aren’t cooperating with Democrats’ Senate majority hopes

Democrats’ path to the Senate majority is improving. In fact, recent polls have shown the party leading in three states that President Donald Trump carried by double digits in 2024: Alaska, Ohio and Texas. Democrats need at least two of those to win the majority.

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Business Notes: Virginia Beach police, fire departments reaccredited; pretzel shop opens in Kill Devil Hills

View which organizations are giving back and which ones are celebrating milestones.

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Why labor & business groups are teaming up to fight Chicago's data center ban | The Chicago Report

Operating Engineers Local 150 Executive Director Marc Poulos joins the Chicago Report to discuss why trade unions and business groups are uniting to block Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed one-year data center moratorium. He explains why labor believes the pause will stifle job growth and innovation and shares what his alliance is planning to thwart the proposal.

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University of Michigan to host Elevate HER Summit celebrating women in sports

The University of Michigan is bringing together some of the biggest names in women’s sports for an event focused on leadership, mentorship and creating opportunities for the next generation.

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Celebrating Excellence in Student Health: District Nurses Earn National Certification - Pine Bush Central School District

We are proud to celebrate two of our very own school nurses, Kathleen Chamberlain and Linda Loennecker, our nursing department chair, for achieving national certification through the National Board for Certification of School Nurses (NBCSN)! Achieving NBCSN certification is a major milestone in school nursing. The rigorous examination tests advanced clinical expertise, specialized knowledge, and … Continue reading "Celebrating Excellence in Student Health: District Nurses Earn National Certification"

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Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) Stock Trades Up, Here Is Why

What Happened? Shares of global online betting powerhouse Flutter Entertainment (NASDAQ:FLUT) jumped 4.4% in the afternoon session after Citi analyst Monique Pollard upgraded the company from a Neutral rating to a Buy rating. According to StreetInsider, Susquehanna analyst Joseph Stauff separately…

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NFL Picks Week 5: Celebrating the Past

The first quarter of the 2026 NFL season has concluded and now we move forward with Week 5. What will this week have in store? Let’s take a look!

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Cash is $786K amid recurring losses at Sports Entertainment Gaming Global (SEGG).

Operating cash outflow totaled $8.27M in Q1 2026. Specified 2021–2022 reports require restatement; SEGG intends to amend affected reports.

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ROI-NJ to Host Inaugural Family Business of the Year Awards, Oct. 15

ROI-NJ's will be celebrating New Jersey's outstanding family-owned businesses at its inaugural Family Business of the Year Awards luncheon on Thursday,

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Wedbush Cuts Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) Price Target to $110.00

Wedbush cut their price target on Flutter Entertainment from $126.00 to $110.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday.

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PENN Entertainment (PENN) Gets A Fresh Look After Deutsche Bank Upgrade And NFL Deal

PENN Entertainment (PENN) drew fresh attention after Deutsche Bank shifted its rating to Buy. In addition, theScore Bet signed a multiyear NFL partnership that provides access for sports wagering and online casino operations in Canada. Recent trading has been choppy for PENN Entertainment. The share price slipped 1.19% over the last day and 7.91% over 30 days, after a 24.02% decline over 90 days. It still shows a 5.86% year to date share price gain, while 1-year total shareholder return is...

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A bipartisan healthcare fix

Holding insurers accountable could be a point of agreement in a divided Washington

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Fidelis Care Earns 4 Stars in NCQA's Medicaid Health Plan Ratings 2026

/PRNewswire/ -- Fidelis Care, a statewide health plan with more than 2 million members in New York State and a Centene Corporation company, announced today its...

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PENN Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:PENN) Stock Has Average Target Price of $23.94 According to Analysts

Shares of PENN Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:PENN - Get Free Report) have been given an average recommendation of "Moderate Buy" by the twenty ratings firms that are covering the company, MarketBeat Ratings reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have assigned a hold rating an

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Breast cancer survivors join together as CHI Health St. Elizabeth shines pink for October

CHI Health hosted its 16th annual ladies night on Wednesday, celebrating those impacted by the disease as they gathered to support one another.

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Breast cancer survivors join together as CHI Health St. Elizabeth shines pink for October

CHI Health hosted its 16th annual ladies night on Wednesday, celebrating those impacted by the disease as they gathered to support one another.

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Breast cancer survivors join together as CHI Health St. Elizabeth shines pink for October

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Push to increase access in N.Y. to mental health treatments

The announcement is in the wake of President Donald Trump’s April 2026 executive order accelerating medical treatments for serious mental illness.

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Samsung Q3 profit jumps nearly nine-fold as AI memory boom lifts chip earnings

Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter ​operating profit from a year earlier, beating analysts' estimates as booming demand ‌for artificial intelligence chips drove strong memory earnings.

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Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial “success” in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Let’s be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week I’m going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audience’s faith. So that’s the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we don’t know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Let’s start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers aren’t there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Here’s the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... I’m not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

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Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Stock 12‑Month Price Target Cut to $20.79, Implies 72% Upside

Explore more price target data and ratings for Six Flags Entertainment Corporation on the Forecasts tab, and track all previous and future analyst recommendations for Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in the dedicated News Flow.Select reference data provided by FactSet. Copyright © 2026 FactSet R…

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Oct 7 • 6:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Space activities and a brewing science night coming to Spark Science Center

The Spark Science Center is celebrating World Space Week with two hands-on programs, and a week later it will launch a new adult-only series with a look at the science of brewing.

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Oct 7 • 5:44 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Braver Angels, Rochester rotary clubs collaborating to facilitate civil political discussions

Three workshops will take place in Rochester promoting civil political discussion.

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Oct 7 • 4:46 PM EDT • Politics • kttc.com
RHOSLC Season 7 Kicks Off With a Record-Breaking Win

RHOSLC Season 7 is already delivering strong ratings for Bravo. The latest season of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City scored the show’s biggest premiere audience to date across multiple platforms...

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Oct 7 • 4:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Science on Target: Q3 Research We Conduct

The Target ALS Global Natural History Study (GNHS) is entering a new phase of discovery. As the only international, longitudinal study generating deeply characterized clinical, genomic, and biofluid data to accelerate ALS biomarker discovery and therapeutic development, the GNHS is now beginning to deliver large scale datasets and resources needed to support new insights into […]

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Oct 7 • 4:02 PM EDT • Science • targetals.org
Flutter Entertainment plc Stock 12‑Month Price Target Cut to $131.5, Implies 72% Upside

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Oct 7 • 3:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Accel Entertainment, Inc. Stock 12‑Month Price Target Raised to $16.12, Implies 47% Upside

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Oct 7 • 3:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Why Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) Stock Is Up Today

Shares of global online betting powerhouse Flutter Entertainment (NASDAQ:FLUT) jumped 3.1% in the pre-market session after Citi analyst Monique Pollard upgraded the stock from a Neutral rating to a Buy rating.

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Oct 7 • 3:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Cincinnati Children's, First Ladies for Health to host Family Health Day

The program will be held at five churches and a school on Sunday, Oct. 11

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Oct 7 • 1:21 PM EDT • Health • spectrumnews1.com
Tigers Led MLB in Extreme Scoring Games

Detroit’s feast-or-famine offense defined a frustrating season, oscillating between shut-down scoring droughts and explosive outbursts that left no middle ground for a team desperate for consistency.

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Oct 7 • 1:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sabres Oktoberfest | Concession specials, live entertainment and more for Thursday’s game against Dallas

We're celebrating all things Oktoberfest on Thursday, Oct. 8.

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Oct 7 • 12:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • nhl.com
Flutter Entertainment: We Double Down (Rating Upgrade)

Flutter stock is down 20% since May. See why FLUT's FanDuel investment, international diversification, prediction markets & cost savings improve risk/reward.

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Oct 7 • 11:11 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Scientists in Vienna and Beijing create world's first nuclear clocks

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Scientific teams working separately in Vienna and Beijing have developed the world's first two operating nuclear clocks in what they are calling an important advance in timekeeping t...

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Scientists in Vienna and Beijing create world's first nuclear clocks

Scientific teams working separately in Vienna and Beijing have developed the world's first two operating nuclear clocks in ​what they are calling an important advance in timekeeping that promises wide-ranging practical applications and offers a new tool to investigate fundamental physics.

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Accel Entertainment Announces Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast

Accel Entertainment will announce third-quarter financial results on November 3, 2026, followed by a conference call and webcast.Quiver AI SummaryAccel Entertainment, Inc. announced that it will release its financial and operating results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2026, on November 3, 2026, after market close. The Company will hold a conference call and webcast at 4:30 PM ET to discuss the results, featuring CEO Mark Phelan and o

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Why Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) Stock Is Up Today

What Happened? Shares of global online betting powerhouse Flutter Entertainment (NASDAQ:FLUT) jumped 3.1% in the pre-market session after Citi analyst Monique Pollard upgraded the stock from a Neutral rating to a Buy rating.Citi analyst Monique Pollard upgraded the shares in research carried by Str…

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Oct 7 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Braver Angels joins Rochester Rotary Clubs to facilitate political discussions

Rochester’s Rotary Clubs are collaborating with the organization, Braver Angels, for three workshops surrounding civil political discussion and understanding disagreements.

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Oct 7 • 8:06 AM EDT • Politics • kttc.com
The politics of being famous: When should celebrities speak up? The Commonwealth Times

A concert is supposed to be simple — people buy tickets, listen to music and spend a few hours enjoying themselves. Politics are not necessarily a part of the experience. However, for some of the biggest names in entertainment, separating a career from politics is becoming increasingly difficult.

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metaphactory by Digital Science Now Available on SAP Store

By integrating with SAP HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph Engine, metaphactory from Digital Science delivers a seamless, AI-ready Knowledge Graph experience to customers.London, United Kingdom--(Newsfile Corp. - October 7, 2026) - Digital Science today announced that its metaphactory is now available on SAP® Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. metaphactory integrates with SAP HANA® Cloud Knowledge Graph Engine and delivers a faster route from enterprise data to knowledge graphs

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Oct 7 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited (NASDAQ:MLCO) Stock Rated "Moderate Buy" by Wall Street Brokerages

Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited (NASDAQ:MLCO - Get Free Report) has earned an average rating of "Moderate Buy" from the ten research firms that are covering the firm, MarketBeat reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating, five have g

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Area schools secure top spots in latest OSHAA computer ratings

The latest OSHAA computer ratings show Bellbrook, Graham Local, and Marion Local schools holding top regional rankings.

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Oct 7 • 4:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
I review AirPods, MacBooks and more. Here are the 24 best Amazon Prime Day Apple deals

Our tech reviewer has tested tons of Apple gear and is separating the wheat from the chaff when it comes to Amazon’s October Prime Day deals.

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