Mediagazer: Time Warner Cable Slapped With Class Action Suit Over CBS Blackout (Tim Kenneally/The Wrap)

1:25 AM ET, August 15, 2013

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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:

Time Warner Cable Slapped With Class Action Suit Over CBS Blackout — Three Southern California residents demand restitution over retransmission standoff — The stakes in the standoff between CBS and Time Warner Cable have just been upped once again — and this time it's angry viewers who are doing the upping.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Deadline.com, Variety and Hollywood Reporter

Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

Fox Sports 1 Finalizing DirecTV and Dish Network Deals - Time Warner Cable Talks Ongoing (Updated) — Want to watch NASCAR and UFC this weekend? You might want to call your cable provider — Follow @@anthonymaglio — It's not just you, CBS. — Fox Sports 1, formerly Speed network …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable

Bill Carter / New York Times:
Blacked Out in 3 Cities, CBS Still Wins Ratings Race

Discussion: MWD, The Wrap and Los Angeles Times

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Committee To Protect Journalists Marks Grim Milestone Of 1,000 Killed — NEW YORK — The Egyptian military and police crackdown Wednesday on Muslim Brotherhood protesters reportedly led to the deaths of more than 100 hundred people, including a journalist covering the carnage, Sky News cameramen Mick Deane.

Discussion: Gulf News, Committee to Protect …, National Updates and Telegraph

Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Grim Day for Journalists: 3 Killed in Egypt, 1 Missing in Syria 365 Days Now

Discussion: Associated Press, New York Times, RT and TVNewser

Hannah Allam / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. journalist marks year in captivity as risks increase for war reporters

Discussion: Poynter, The Huffington Post and @freeaustintice

Elizabeth Spiers / Flavorwire:

How Not to Launch a Site for Women: An Open Letter to Bustle.com Founder, Bryan Goldberg — Yesterday BleacherReport.com founder Bryan Goldberg announced that he had received $6.5 million in funding for a new women's site called Bustle.com from a variety of investors including Social+Capital Partnership …

Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

What we can all learn from the New York Times website outage — The more we rely on digital information, the more vulnerable we are. Everyone needs a Plan B, independent of third-party hosts — Several hours after the New York Times website and mobile app went offline on Wednesday morning …

Discussion: USA Today, NPR, Bloomberg, New York Times, The Hairpin, @dangillmor and @mattseaton

Eric Celeste / FrontBurner:

Dallas Morning News Will Get Rid of Its Paywall and Debut New Premium Site in September — I asked some head honchos today about what newsroom sources have been telling me for weeks: that the DMN is switching to a “premium” site for subscribers and will do away with its paywall in September.

Discussion: GigaOM, CNET, @caseynewton, The Snitch and @mathewi

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

CNN Plans ‘Complete Overhaul’ Of Digital Operation For Fall — CNN is planning its most significant changes to CNN.com and the CNN digital platforms in more than a decade for the Fall. The channel is preparing to launch a redesigned site that not only looks different to users …

Discussion: Mashable, Variety, Lost Remote, NewscastStudio and AdAge

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

CEO: Aereo will turn a profit before turning in 1M subscribers — The upstart online TV service will have a “fabulous” business at 1 million users and an “extremely fabulous” one at 5 million, but registrations need only be in the hundreds of thousands for it to be profitable, its CEO said.

Discussion: The Verge

Kira Witkin / WAN-IFRA:

Publishers launch sponsored content factories, but ethics are unclear — A number of news organizations, including The Huffington Post and Wired, have recently launched in-house creative agencies to amp up lucrative sponsored content offerings. But the ethics in this new territory are unclear …

BBC:

Bradley Manning ‘sorry’ for hurting US with Wikileaks — Pte First Class Bradley Manning has apologised for hurting the US by leaking a trove of classified US government documents to Wikileaks. — Pte Manning, 25, spoke at the sentencing hearing of his court martial at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Discussion: New York Times, RT, Business Insider and The Raw Story

Reuters:

Textbook rental company Chegg files for IPO of up to $150 mln — Textbook rental company Chegg Inc filed with U.S. regulators on Thursday to raise up to $150 million in an initial public offering. — The Santa Clara, California-based company provides homework help, textbooks, eTextbooks …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Fortune, ZDNet, New Jersey Online, Forbes and Bloomberg

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple ordered to prepare for May 2014 trial on e-book antitrust damages — An order issued on Tuesday by U.S District Court Judge Denise Cote, who is presiding over the Justice Department's antitrust case against Apple's e-book pricing policies, notes all parties must by ready for a damages trial tentatively scheduled for May 2014.

Discussion: Reuters