Versant Media Group, Inc. Class A (VSNT)

Cable news and sports networks, 4,400, 91% U.S. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 3, 2026. Ranked 27 of the 39 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 4,400 full-time equivalents, 91% in the United States, in networks and digital platforms with nothing counted by business, so the split is by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 26% now, 54% at the end of 2027, 65% at the end of 2028, 70% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 70% desk work, 23% people work and 7% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 30% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 54% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,400 employees as of December 31, 2025 (full-time equivalent). The filing states approximately 9.5% of employees in over 14 countries outside the United States.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 4,400 full-time and part-time employees calculated on a full-time equivalent basis.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,400 full-time equivalents; freelance and temporary employees used and not counted; a small portion of full-time U.S. staff unionized, with many freelance, technical, production, editorial and some on-air personnel under collective bargaining agreements or works councils; the first filing after the separation.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Meta (META, 78,865 employees)27% now, 66% by 2028
• Paramount Skydance Corporation Class B Common Stock (PSKY, 17,600 employees)25% now, 56% by 2028
• Netflix, Inc. (NFLX, 16,000 employees)26% now, 63% by 2028
• Pinterest, Inc. (PINS, 5,265 employees)27% now, 66% by 2028
• Snap Inc. (SNAP, 5,261 employees)27% now, 66% by 2028
• Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (SIRI, 5,119 employees)27% now, 66% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

10 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among the subjects of privacy regulation and says competitors' access to generative AI may enable faster and cheaper content creation and sharper competition.

• “Both the FTC and state attorneys' general have sought to expand their authority in this area through various rulemakings and enforcement actions that address general privacy, targeted advertising data security, processing of sensitive personal information, use of artificial intelligence ("AI") and children's privacy.”
• “These competitors may also have greater or more immediate access to new or innovative technologies such as generative AI, which may further intensify competition by enabling faster and lower-cost content creation and distribution, which could adversely affect our competitive position.”
• “The use of AI may also improve competitors' operating efficiency and cost structures, allowing them to allocate resources more effectively and compete more aggressively on pricing, investment levels or content offerings.”
• “As we respond to the decline in consumer demand for cable television, our future success is and will be dependent on our ability to acquire, develop, adopt and leverage new and existing technologies, and our competitors' use of certain types of technology, including AI, may provide them with a competitive advantage if we are unable to keep pace.”
• “The manipulation of content by bad actors, including the creation of "deep fakes" (videos created with AI to realistically impersonate persons such as journalists or political candidates), could erode audience trust by making it difficult to determine what content is real.”

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The count is full-time equivalents (rule 2), and freelance and temporary employees are not counted (rule 8).
• No count by business; the split between networks and digital platforms is by description.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0002067876-26-000010, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.