Mediagazer: Weather Channel Cuts 40 More Staffers (Chris Ariens/TVNewser)

6:05 PM ET, November 6, 2014

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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

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The Australian Financial Review:

Discovery Communications and Foxtel weighing joint bid for Australia's Ten Network — Foxtel weighs up Ten Network investment — US cable television giant Discovery Communications is weighing up a joint bid for the struggling Ten Network Holdings with local pay TV monopoly Foxtel.

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

CBS Launches Ad-Supported Broadband News Feed In Effort To Vie With Cable-News Outlets — CBS launched what may be the modern media-industry version of a CNN with a new broadband-distributed news feed that will send live, anchored news programming to Internet-connected TVs and other devices …

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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Moonves: CBS has deal with Sony's broadband pay-TV service, and Showtime will go OTT in 2015

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Aereo imposes large lay-offs, but streaming TV service is not shutting down — There's more trouble for Aereo, which laid off the majority of its staff this week. The internet TV service will continue operations for now. — Aereo's bad year just got worse.

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Weather Channel Cuts 40 More Staffers — First on TVNewser: Pink slips are being handed out this morning at the Weather Channel. As many as 40 staffers are being cut from the ranks of senior producers, show producers, and weather producers, insiders tell TVNewser.

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

During Netflix money fight, Cogent's other big customers suffered too — Cogent prioritized small business traffic over large network users. — When Netflix and its transit providers fought with cable companies and telcos over who should have to pay for network upgrades, it's no secret that innocent bystanders were harmed.

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Martin Peers / The Information:

Media Cos. Should Stop Milking and Start Investing — If there were ever a time when traditional media companies should be investing in growth, this should be it. Given weak TV ratings and ad revenues, and a pay-TV market that is only likely to decline, businesses built on pay television need to diversify.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Q3 Beats The Street On Sales Of $626.8M, Falls Short On Income Of $121.8M — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) this morning reported its earnings for Q3, a mixed result that saw it beating estimates on sales but only matching on earnings, and missing on operating income (OIBDA) …

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Karma Allen / CNBC:

Walt Disney earnings: 89 cents per share on revenue of $12.39B, both in-line with estimates — Walt Disney Co. delivered quarterly earnings and revenue that were largely in-line with Wall Street expectations on Thursday. — After the earnings announcement, the company's shares edged lower in after-hours trading.

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

The Economist to launch daily bite-size digital briefing — The Economist Espresso will be 171-year-old weekly magazine's first daily edition — The Economist is to launch its first-ever daily edition, a bite-size digital briefing designed to complement the 171-year-old weekly news magazine.

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Gavin J. Blair / Hollywood Reporter:

Viki Adds Japanese Content in Drive to Become a Top Global Channel (Exclusive) — Japanese majors Toho and Fuji TV among new content providers for crowd-subtitled multilingual video platform — Crowd-subtitled, multilingual video platform Viki has signed multi-territory content deals …

Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:

‘Serial’ Is The Hottest Show Of The Fall — Do Marketers Need a Podcast Strategy? — On Feb. 9, 1999, the body of Hae Min Lee — a high school student in Baltimore County who had disappeared about a month earlier — was found in a shallow grave in a nearby park.

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Philly.com alums join news startup Philly Voice — George Norcross, who lost a bid for The Philadelphia Inquirer in May, appears to be behind Philly Voice, a site that bills itself as “your essential source for news, sports and culture.” — The domain was registered in August by …

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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Icelandic journalists face jail for making a mistake — Lawyers acting for an Icelandic interior ministry official are asking for two journalists to be jailed because they mistakenly named her as a target in a police investigation. — In June, the journalists - Jón Bjarki Magnússon …

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Jane Martinson / Guardian:

Former Sunday Mirror investigations editor pleads guilty to phone hacking — Graham Johnson hacked a phone to investigate whether a soap star was having an affair with a gangster, court hears — Graham Johnson, former investigations editor of the Sunday Mirror, has pleaded guilty to phone-hacking charges …

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