Mediagazer: Senate confirms Wheeler to lead FCC (Brendan Sasso/Hillicon Valley)

2:35 PM ET, October 30, 2013

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Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

Senate confirms Wheeler to lead FCC — The Senate unanimously confirmed Tom Wheeler, an investor and former industry lobbyist, to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday. — The vote was delayed for two weeks by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who expressed concern about Wheeler's views on political disclosure rules.

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Reuters:

Three ex-Murdoch journalists plead guilty to phone hacking — (Reuters) - Three former senior journalists from Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid the News of the World have pleaded guilty to charges relating to phone-hacking, the trial of two of the media mogul's former editors heard on Wednesday.

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Michael Holden / Reuters: British justice on trial in phone-hacking trial, jury told

BBC:

Press regulation: Papers lose last-minute court appeal — A new cross-party royal charter on press regulation has been granted by the Privy Council, the government says, after the newspaper industry lost a last-minute court challenge. — Court of Appeal judges refused newspaper publishers …

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Newspapers' bid for injunction against press regulation royal charter fails — Publishers take their case to court of appeal after high court refuses to grant them last-minute ‘stay’ — Newspaper and magazine publishers have failed in their application for an injunction to prevent …

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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost News:

NBCU Revs Sink, But Cable Up 4% — Comcast's NBCUniversal had a modest financial gains for its third quarter — when excluding Summer Olympic comparisons of 2012. Overall revenue for NBCUniversal sank 14.2% to $5.9 billion. Without the London Olympics some $1.2 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2012, revenue was up 3.9%.

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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Comcast downplays Netflix talks, still adding broadband subscribers

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AllThingsD:

Intel May Turn Over Its Web TV Project to Verizon — Intel's efforts to break into the TV business may be coming to a close. — Sources said the chipmaker is close to a deal to hand over control of Intel Media, the unit that has been trying to build a Web-based subscription TV service …

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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:

Greeks Question Media, and New Voices Pipe Up — ATHENS — Late on a recent evening, crowds gathered at the Radio Bubble cafe in downtown Athens, drinking beer and talking politics. The cafe, in the trendy yet rough-around-the-edges Exarchia neighborhood, funds a small leftist online radio station …

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Olivia Petersen / Politico:

POLITICO to Launch ‘POLITICO Magazine’ — POLITICO, the country's dominant political news source, announced today that this November it will launch POLITICO Magazine, a new print and online publication that will convene the most interesting, provocative and important thinkers and writers around …

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David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:

‘PBS NewsHour’ has lost 48 percent of its audience in last 8 years — By David Zurawik — Eight years ago this month, I did an interview with then anchor Jim Lehrer in connection with the 30th anniversary of the “PBS NewsHour.” — It was a laudatory piece, as I had long shared Lehrer's values about journalism and democracy.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

AP's new Lingofy plugin is like a robot copy editor — Lingofy is a browser plugin that “checks website content for AP Stylebook's spelling, language, punctuation, usage and journalistic style guidelines,” the Associated Press says in a press release. The for-purchase plugin also checks …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Digital subscriptions up 24% at Financial Times — The Financial Times “reached its highest circulation in its 125-year history,” owner Pearson PLC's nine-month trading report says. Circulation is up 5 percent over the same period in 2012, and digital subscriptions are up 24 percent, “to almost 387,000,” the statement says.

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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

ESPN mobile properties saw more unique visitors than ESPN.com in September for first time ever — Here's yet another sign of the movement toward mobile devices: ESPN, for the first time ever, saw more unique visitors on its mobile properties than on ESPN.com in September.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Comcast to Stream 35 Live TV Channels to Mobile Apps Outside the Home — Renamed Xfinity TV Go app lineup includes live feeds of ESPN, CNN, Fox News and other cablers — Comcast has inked deals to let subscribers tune in to 35 live cable channels through its updated video-player app …

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