BOTW: The Brag’s curious new owner; What a Paramount merger means for Ten; The ABC sacking playbook

Welcome to Best of the Week, mostly written on Friday at sunny Sisters Beach, Tasmania, on a day when it felt like everybody else in the industry had already left their desks.

So this may prove to be our least read newsletter of the year (apart from next week’s, perhaps), which is a pity, as it was an eventful few days. We’ll be covering the local implications of the proposed merger of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery; the sale of Brag Media to Vinyl Group (who?); and the ABC’s sacking of Antoinette Lattouf.

Happy Festivus. That’s today. Let the airing of grievances commence.

You’re just about out of time to snap up Unmade’s never-to-be-beaten end-of-year offer to become a member. The offer ends after today.