In the late nineteenth century, two brothers, Gerard and Anton Philips, started an incandescent-bulb outfit that would eventually become one of the largest electronics conglomerates in the world.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2026
The merged media conglomerates will now operate under one entity as Skydance, and means that Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and HBO Max’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver are now run by the same corporation.
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