Mediagazer: CBS goes dark in some Time Warner Cable markets (Joan E. Solsman/CNET)

12:45 AM ET, July 30, 2013

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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

CBS goes dark in some Time Warner Cable markets — The broadcaster and the cable company fail to reach a pact on fees, leaving subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas without the most-watched television channel for now. — Follow @@joan_e — After weeks of talks …

Discussion: TVNewser, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, @cnet, @joan_e, The Verge, @jerrybarmash, @jboorstin and @jerrybarmash

@cnbc:

BREAKING: Time Warner Cable removes CBS, Showtime from its cable service effective midnight ET. $TWC $CBS

Discussion: Engadget, @jbflint, @garymlevin and @joan_e

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

ESPN confirms it will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team — ESPN will hire bloggers to cover every NFL team, Rob King confirmed by phone Monday afternoon. “If you're going to place a bet anywhere, place it on the NFL,” said King, ESPN's senior vice president for content, digital & print media.

Discussion: @richarddeitsch, eMedia Vitals, @jamiemottram, @brianmfloyd and The Insider

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Media, left out of the relationship — Note who's missing in Tanzina Vega's New York Times story today about the monster merger of ad agencies Publicis and Omnicom. — Media — TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, online — are nowhere to be seen. This merger, they all say …

Discussion: Globe and Mail, iMediaConnection Blog, GigaOM, AdAge, MediaNama, @davidapatton and Wall Street Journal

Ruth Margalit / The New Yorker:

The Israeli Answer to Al Jazeera — Timing could not have been more fortuitous for i24 News. Two weeks ago, as the Israel-based news channel was preparing to launch its first broadcast, reports started trickling in that a chain of people had resigned from Al Jazeera in protest …

Discussion: @tnynewsdesk, @mjayrosenberg, @fridagcolumns, @newyorker, @arubenfire and @asmaark

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT interview with Obama: No surveillance questions? — Jackie Calmes and Michael D. Shear's interview with President Obama packed in enough news to fill three New York Times articles and one media story: “It was the paper's first exclusive chat with the president in nearly three years,” The Huffington Post's Jack Mirkinson writes.

Discussion: Mediaite, @sarahkendzior, Wonkette, The Daily Caller, @trevortimm, Firedoglake, @dangillmor, The Huffington Post, The Newspaper Guild and New York Times

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

Why the time is right for The Washington Post & others to boost video initiatives — The Washington Post will formally launch PostTV today — a big gamble that it can widen audience and win significant advertising revenue by producing digital video programs and distributing the segments to various partners.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Washington Post, @poynter, NetNewsCheck Latest and @abeaujon

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Washington Post Launches New Political Web Shows

Dylan Byers / Politico:

CNN to produce Hillary Clinton film — CNN Films has tapped documentary filmmaker Charles H. Ferguson to direct a film about former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, POLITICO has learned. — “CNN is very pleased to be working with Academy-Award winner Charles Ferguson on the film …

Discussion: Reuters, Broadcasting & Cable, TVNewser, New York Times, New York Magazine, Associated Press, @jonlovett, The Huffington Post and Variety

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Bradley Manning judge to release verdict on Tuesday in WikiLeaks trial — Army private faces sentence of life in military custody with no chance of parole if convicted on ‘aiding the enemy’ charge — Bradley Manning, the self-confessed source of the massive WikiLeaks trove of US state secrets …

Discussion: New York Times, Reason, @xeni, @kgosztola, @xeni, @mgsledge, @kgosztola and www.wnyc.org

Shira Ovide / Digits:

Thomson Reuters Twitter Account Is Hacked — The main Twitter account of news outlet Thomson Reuters was taken over Monday, apparently by the Syrian Electronic Army group that has hacked other news organizations. — “Earlier today @thomsonreuters was hacked,” a spokesman for the news organization said in an email late Monday.

Discussion: VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Mashable, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Wire and The Verge

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Your Poor Couch! Netflix Viewers Don't Cut Back on Regular TV. — Are you watching a ton of Netflix? — Then you had better make sure you're getting fresh air and exercise. Because you're probably not cutting back on your regular TV habit. — That's according to a new study …

Discussion: Variety, TiVo, Hollywood Reporter, VatorNews, WebProNews and Home Media Magazine

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Google's New Zagat Is Much More Limited (For Now), but It's Free — Google today put out a gussied-up version of the Zagat website, Android and iOS apps. — Regular users of Zagat's famous local ratings might be disappointed to find that the new site features just nine cities: San Francisco …

Discussion: Android Police, GeekWire, Engadget, The Official Google Blog, ZDNet, CNET and VentureBeat

David Carr / New York Times:

VCR's Past Is Guiding Television's Future — The last few weeks have been a rugged legal stretch for incumbent television companies. — First, an appeals court declined to rehear a case in which broadcasters sought to close down Aereo, a company that allows users to record and play back broadcast television over the Internet.

BBC:

Google weighs 100 million takedowns — Google has received requests to remove more than 100 million links since January 2013 for web pages deemed to be in breach of copyright laws. — That is double the number it received for the whole of 2012 and a sign that publishers are stepping up their battle against internet piracy.

Discussion: PC World, Digital Spy and RT