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1:20 PM ET, October 23, 2014

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Brian Roberts: NBC, Harry Potter Ride Boost Comcast's Q3 Profit  —  Cable and entertainment giant Comcast saw its third-quarter net income soar nearly 50%, thanks to a favorable tax adjustment and improving performance at its NBCUniversal unit.  The Philadelphia company …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Cable television is dying, but cable companies are thriving  —  Cable television is dying.  But if you look at the earnings report Comcast released today, it's clear that cable companies are thriving nonetheless.  —  Over the past year, the company reports that it lost about 155,000 pay television customers.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
German publishers grudgingly allow Google to display news snippets in search results without compensation  —  German Publishers Bow To Google's Market Power In Ongoing Text Snippets Fight  —  A tug of war between Google and German publishers over how online news content is displayed …
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
New York Times staffers band together over buyout anxiety  —  A group of New York Times employees acted en masse to request packages detailing the buyout packages they would qualify for if they applied for them in a round of buyouts announced by the newspaper earlier this fall, several employees confirmed to Capital.
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
CBS News readies 24-hour ‘CBSN’ digital network  —  CBS News 24-hour digital news channel will be called CBSN, Capital has learned, and the network is preparing to launch a marketing campaign around it, a source told Capital, featuring the tagline “CBS News.  Always On.”
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Roku raises $25 million amid growing competition from Amazon and Google  —  Updated at 1:45 p.m. PST with a statement from Roku.  —  Set-top box company Roku has secured a fresh $25 million round of funding, according to a SEC form D filing released today.
Rich McCormick / The Verge:
Microsoft ending free Xbox Music streaming Dec. 1; Music Pass still available for $9.99/month  —  Microsoft is ending free Xbox Music streaming  —  You'll need to purchase a subscription to stream songs  —  Microsoft is closing its free Xbox Music streaming service effective December 1st.
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Some publishers investing in tech to build their own communities outside of Facebook/Twitter  —  Publishers cool on outsourcing community to Facebook  —  Publishers today are at the mercy of the big social networks.  The likes of Facebook and Twitter have not only dominated publishers' referral traffic …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Chris Sutcliffe / TheMediaBriefing:
Global game: The internationalisation of UK newspaper audiences  —  The odds of creating a profitable digital newspaper operation in the UK look long for pretty much every national title.  Our population simply isn't that big, and unless you can sell a lot of pricey digital subscriptions, the advertising economics simply don't add up.
 
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Gay Alcorn / Guardian:
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
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Tilmann Knoll / INMA:
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter.:
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Ivan Nechepurenko / The Moscow Times:
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