Raffaele Annecchino, Paramount International CEO, Dead at 55

Raffaele Annecchino, who spent years steering Paramount International through one of the industry's biggest shifts, is gone. He was 55.

Annecchino's main job was helping Paramount make the jump from the old broadcast playbook to the streaming world. While legacy media was still figuring out what the future looked like, he was out there building the international footprint for Paramount+ and Pluto TV — the moves that mattered when the whole industry was getting reshaped.

This is the kind of behind-the-scenes work that doesn't always get the spotlight, but it's the kind of work that shapes what we all watch. Taking a massive corporation through that kind of transformation isn't clean or simple, and losing someone who had that institutional knowledge and vision hits different.

The streaming wars were brutal, and they still are. But people like Annecchino were out here trying to make sure traditional media companies didn't just disappear. Whether you think they succeeded or failed, that's part of the story of how entertainment changed over the last decade.

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