Dade Hayes

@dieujuu Flirtation, by Eugene de Blaas, 1894

My son has a soccer game this weekend. He'd like me to go. I'm going to try. I said, this is not good timing for me. He's a person I've known for a long time.

Backstage, just before @StephenAtHome walked out for the final @colbertlateshow. A moment we’ll never forget.

Nexstar Says Federal Judge's Freezing Of Tegna Merger "Degrades The Very Assets It Purports To Protect" deadline.com/2026/05/nexsta…

@NESN Home base?

Fifty years ago today, Lou Piniella barreled into Carlton Fisk at home base, sparking a Red Sox-Yankees brawl 😳

Kirk Cousins and Fernando Mendoza, courtesy of the @Raiders:

HBO Max Beats Internal Forecasts, Topping 140M Subscribers In Q1; WBD Now Sees It At 150M By Year-End deadline.com/2026/05/hbo-ma…

'Wizard Of Oz' Nears 3M Tickets Sold, Grossing $370M At Sphere In Las Vegas deadline.com/2026/05/the-wi…

If you’re expecting a Star Wars joke from me on May the Fourth then you’re looking in alderaan places

Marketing, sales, legal

@BeschlossDC Are u ok?

Bon Appetit to all of those dining at the McDonalds built on the spot in Milan, Italy, where Mussolini and his mistress were hanged upside down today 1945:

George Clooney Winks At Paramount-WBD Merger, Offers New Definition Of MAGA At Lincoln Center Tribute Gala deadline.com/2026/04/george…

It's Not Just David Zaslav: Overall Media & Entertainment CEO Pay Surged 117% In 2025, Report Finds deadline.com/2026/04/media-…

“…with reports every 20 minutes, this is Dianna Russini, WFAN 20/20 Sports.”

When you've worked your entire life to make it to the NFL Draft and a New Jersey area code number pops up on your phone

i had to triple check that this wasn't from a parody account

@KevinBankston @DEADLINE Gracie and congrats on the Substack launch, I look fwd to seeing it develop

@DEADLINE @dadehayes Binge Times was great btw :-)

Two Years Before Netflix Deal, Ben Affleck AI Firm InterPositive Promised To Save Film & TV Producers Millions; 50% Discount On Visual Effects deadline.com/2026/04/netfli…

@KevinBankston @DEADLINE Appreciate it! I feel like the first story really just scratched the surface

@DEADLINE @dadehayes Thanks for this story. A thread to pull on in any followup reporting, perhaps:

(2/2) in addition to deal comments, his first since Friday’s ruling, Sook also gave his unvarnished view that “it is a matter of time” before “2 or 3 companies” control all of local TV. Better to keep them healthy than let the industry fade away completely, he argues.

Substantive interview by @InsideEdition host Debra Norville with Nexstar CEO Perry Sook at @NABShow. Sook is fighting a federal court ruling blocking his company’s game-changing merger with Tegna (1/2)