Mediagazer: Newly Released FCC Documents Show Just How Frustrated Comcast Is With Netflix (Adweek)

5:00 PM ET, December 4, 2014

Top News:

Dylan Byers / Politico:

New Republic shakeup: Foer and Wieseltier quit, Gabriel Snyder to replace Foer as editor; magazine moving to NYC, reducing print frequency — Frank Foer, Leon Wieseltier out at TNR — Franklin Foer and Leon Wieseltier, the top two editors at The New Republic, have just quit amid an editorial shakeup …

Ray Locker / USA Today:

Luke Somers named as hostage journalist US attempted to rescue last month in Yemen — Pentagon reports unsuccessful rescue attempt in Yemen — WASHINGTON — U.S. commandos made an unsuccessful attempt to rescue captive journalist Luke Somers in Yemen recently, the Pentagon reported Thursday …

Discussion: BBC

ABC News:

Al Qaeda Group Threatens American Hostage Luke Somers in New Video … Al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate Wednesday night showed an American hostage on camera for the first time, who officials say was the objective of a U.S. rescue attempt last week, threatening to kill him in three days if President Obama doesn't “meet our demands.”

Adweek:

Newly Released FCC Documents Show Just How Frustrated Comcast Is With Netflix — Giant cable merger under fire — Comcast is tired of Netflix, that's for sure. The cable giant had to answer a number of difficult questions from the Federal Communications Commission last week …

Discussion: Radio & Television … and Variety

Emily Steel / New York Times:
Dish, Writers Guild, Glenn Beck's TheBlaze, consumer groups, and more launch Stop Mega Comcast coalition to fight $45B TWC merger

Discussion: Consumerist, FierceCable, Multichannel News, Variety and The Wrap

Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:

Lawyers say Apple deleted music from rival services on users iPods between 2007-2009 — Apple Deleted Rivals' Songs from Users' iPods — Apple deleted music that some iPod owners had downloaded from competing music services from 2007 to 2009 without telling users, attorneys …

Discussion: MacRumors, GeekWire, UPROXX, Daring Fireball, TIME, Mashable, @dhm, Gigaom, @sterlewine, @wsjd, Engadget, SlashGear, BGR, hypebot, Business Insider, Digital Spy, VatorNews, Neowin, Gizmodo, @halvarflake, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Next Web and App Advice

Official FCC Blog:

FCC approves sales resulting in 10 new minority- or women-owned TV stations — Making Good on the Promise of Independent Minority Ownership of Television Stations — Increasing minority ownership of television broadcast stations has been an often-stated, but elusive goal.

Discussion: Reuters

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Inside T Brand Studio, The New York Times' native ad unit — Many publishers may see native advertising as their savior, but The New York Times has approached it with great ambivalence. In introducing the Times' first native ad product, the publisher, Arthur Sulzberger …

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

MemeTV wants to bring meme-worthy TV clips to Tumblr and Reddit — Imagine you watch something funny on TV. You grab your remote control, press a button, and seconds later, that scene arrives in an app on your phone. You edit it down to the key ten seconds, add a clever caption …

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Google and Facebook will have more than half of UK digital ad market — Advertising on websites, smartphones, video and social media will see UK operations make £4.1bn in 2015, according to report — Google and Facebook's domination of UK digital advertising has been underlined …

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Saavn Partners With Twitter To Bring Tweet-Powered Radio To Its Streaming Service — India-focused music service Saavn is upping its social game after it partnered with Twitter to introduce a tweet-powered radio station for its users. — The company serves up “millions” …

Discussion: dna, Trakin' the india …, MediaNama, TechTree.com, bgr.in, Radioandmusic.com and Indian Television Dot Com

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft sells its 17.6% stake in Nook back to Barnes & Noble for $62M and 2.7M shares — Microsoft sells its stake in Nook back to Barnes & Noble — Microsoft and Barnes & Noble unveiled a “strategic partnership” back in April 2012 which involved the software maker investing $300 million …

Discussion: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Media & Entertainment, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, Publishers Lunch, Gigaom, New York Times, VentureBeat, ABC News and ZDNet

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Top Bloomberg Pursuits editors leave abruptly amid shakeup — The two top editors at Bloomberg Pursuits, the luxury personal finance magazine from Bloomberg LP, left the company on Wednesday. — Ted Moncrieff, the editor of Bloomberg Pursuits, had joined the magazine in December 2012.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @joepompeo and @aubernalevy

Courtney Sherwood / Reuters:

U.S. broadcaster intends to test newsgathering drones in Oregon — (Reuters) - A U.S. media company said on Wednesday it wants to be among the first broadcasters to launch news-gathering drones once the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issues new policies governing the unmanned remote-control aircraft …

Discussion: eandt.theiet.org, AllAccess.com and KOIN-TV

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Sky to sell 80% stake in its betting unit Sky Bet to CVC Capital for up to $1.13B — Sky to Sell Controlling Stake in Betting Unit for Up to $1.13 Billion — The deal with private equity group CVC values Sky Bet at $1.3 billion — European pay TV giant Sky has agreed to sell …