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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Aereo may have 100K subscribers in New York - that could be trouble — Aereo, the start-up that lets people watch over-the-air TV for $8/month, is giving broadcasters fits and delighting consumers looking to break free of over-priced cable bundles. But, until now, no has been quite sure how many people are actually using the service.
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Betabeat, Home Media Magazine, Radio & Television …, NetNewsCheck Latest, Wall Street Journal, @shaliniwsj and IP&TV News
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Jim Romenesko:
Thomson Reuters beats Wall Street's expectations, plans to cut 3,000 positions — Thomson Reuters on Tuesday reported a third-quarter profit of 48 cents per share, beating Wall Street expectations by 4 cents. “Our Financial business achieved positive net sales for the first time in more than two years …
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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Media Outlets Embrace Conferences as Profits Rise — Financially struggling media companies are racing to add conferences, festivals and other live events to their business strategy, convinced they can provide a reliable revenue stream and expand the reach of their brands.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Buffett group reportedly looking at some Tribune papers — “There are certainly good parts of the company we'd have a good interest in,” BH Media Group CEO Terry Kroeger told NetNewsCheck's Lou Carlozo about Tribune Co.'s newspapers. Kroeger “declined to elaborate further,” Carlozo writes …
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@poynter and NetNewsCheck Latest
Nick Cohen / Spectator:
British journalists lock each other up and throw away the key — In the past few days, my colleagues on the Guardian have been publishing stories of national and international significance - indeed, if truth be told, they have been publishing them for most of the autumn.
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Guardian, @jamespiotr, @leshinton, @piersmorgan, @johnmcquaid, @samrich91, @tomchivers, @alexmassie, @neilwallis1, @tphallett and Reuters
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
“Post-Print” Startup Stateless Media Creates Short, Smart Documentaries For The Web — My recent conversation with Stateless Media's Peter Savodnik was a bit discombobulating. He's had what seems like a successful career in longform journalism, with publications in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and elsewhere.
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Sky takes on Netflix with £4.99 Now TV entertainment package — Ten channels including Sky Atlantic, with shows such as Game of Thrones and Mad Men, offered without a pay-TV subscription — Sky's on-demand service, Now TV, is to offer 10 entertainment channels including Sky1 …
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
SoundCloud Now Reaches 250 Million Visitors In Its Quest To Become The Audio Platform Of The Web — Today at Disrupt Europe, SoundCloud co-founder and CEO Alexander Ljung took the stage to share two new updates and share his thoughts on the music industry, music startups and more.
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SoundCloud, The Verge, hypebot, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Softpedia News
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Washington Post's Bob Woodward Takes More Active Role In Jeff Bezos Era — NEW YORK — Bob Woodward is back at The Washington Post. — It's not that he ever completely left. But in recent years, Woodward has focused more on writing books than on regular involvement in the newsroom …
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Christine Idzelis / Bloomberg:
Tribune Said to Seek $4.1 Billion of Loans for TV Station Deal — Tribune Co. (TRBAA) is seeking $4.1 billion of loans to finance its acquisition of television stations and to refinance debt, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction. — JPMorgan Chase & Co. is arranging …
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Radio & Television … and Reuters
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Al Jazeera America Expanding With More Bureaus, Staff, Hours — Al Jazeera America plans an ambitious expansion that will include more bureaus and staff, more hours of coverage, wider distribution and a greater emphasis on investigative reporting, the network announced Tuesday.
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Al Jazeera, Variety, Deadline.com, Los Angeles Times, @jayrosen_nyu and @peterlauria3
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
‘Complex’ starts, in a small way, to spend that 25M — Last week when Sasha Hecht announced she was leaving her position as managing editor of Vice's music channel, Noisey, to become the managing editor of Complex Music, she was joining a bit of club. — Hecht joined Vice Media two years ago …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Netflix Flirts With a New Idea: “Big” Movies at Your House, the Same Day They're in Theaters — Netflix made a splash this year by creating its own TV shows and delivering them over the Web. Now it's toying with the same idea for movies. — This summer, the company announced that it in addition …
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Alex Stedman / Variety:
Theater Owners ‘Might Kill Movies,’ Warns Netflix's Sarandos
Theater Owners ‘Might Kill Movies,’ Warns Netflix's Sarandos
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Hollywood Reporter, Home Media Magazine, Rolling Stone and Los Angeles Times