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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YouTube Red Subscription Will Include Original Series From PewDiePie, CollegeHumor, And More — YouTube wants to use exclusive series and movies from its biggest stars to differentiate its new $9.99 ad-free video and on-demand music subscription service YouTube Red.
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, adds offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally — Red Dawn — A family is gathered around the dinner table: Dad and the kids have spaghetti on their plates, Mom is standing, serving spoon in hand.
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Steven Tweedie / Business Insider:
Google takes on Spotify and Apple Music with new YouTube Music app — YouTube unveiled its new music app, “YouTube Music,” on Tuesday at an event in Los Angeles. — Designed for people who use YouTube as a main source of music, the new music streaming app works closely with traditional YouTube videos …
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Disney to launch DisneyLife subscription streaming service in the UK in November, expand to France, Spain, Italy, and Germany next year — Disney to launch digital subscription streaming service in UK — Walt Disney will next month launch a first of its kind digital subscription service …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
ESPN confirms layoffs of 300 people; source says in distribution, advertising, technology, content, and others — ESPN to Lay Off About 300 Employees — Sports-media company looks to control costs in a challenging pay-TV landscape — ESPN said it would lay off nearly 300 employees at the company …
Rhiannon Williams / Telegraph:
Apple's News arrives in the UK with iOS 9.1 update — Apple's News app, an aggregator for your favourite news sources, is now available to download in the UK alongside iOS 9.1 — Apple's News app is now available for UK iPhone and iPad owners in the UK, acting as a personalised newsfeed agregator for digital media.
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Lee Rainie / Pew Research Center:
Pew: 63% of Americans read at least one print book in last 12 months, 27% read an e-book, numbers largely same as 2014 survey — Slightly fewer Americans are reading print books, new survey finds — The number of book readers has dipped a bit from the previous year and the number …
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Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Yahoo took a $42M write-down in Q3 in its video division that backed original series including Community, “couldn't see a way to make money over time” — Why Yahoo wrote down $42 million for ‘Community’ — In April, at a star-studded “newfront” presentation at New York's Lincoln Center …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Yahoo and Google make search deal: Yahoo will call on Google to provide some results and ads for Yahoo search queries
Yahoo and Google make search deal: Yahoo will call on Google to provide some results and ads for Yahoo search queries
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Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
James and Lachlan Murdoch in First Interview Atop Fox: Politics, Roger Ailes, Dad and Plans for the Future (Exclusive) — The brothers, who took over the 21st Century Fox empire July 1, sit down together and open up about who's in charge, sister Liz, the new age of television and whether …
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TVNewser, Guardian, Media Wire Daily and Politico
Andrew Golis / Medium:
One-link-a-day sharing site This. opens to public, redesigns website to allow commentary and context — Introducing: This. — A new home for the links you love. … L — ast year, we launched This. in private beta. — We felt overwhelmed by the volume and underwhelmed by the quality of media on other sharing networks.
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Leo Barraclough / Variety:
Max Hole to Step Down as Chairman, CEO of Universal Music Group International — LONDON — Max Hole is to step down from his role as chairman and chief executive of Universal Music Group International, effective immediately. The company's regional heads, outside the U.S. …
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Billboard, Music Business Worldwide, Music Week, Classical Music, Radioandmusic.com, Slipped Disc and Complete Music Update
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Downward stocks, retrenchment of IPO market, Trump lawsuit, and other issues mean Univision could delay its planned IPO — Univision beset by media world turbulence as it plans IPO — Univision Communications' owners were hoping that by mid-October, Wall Street would be cheering …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Melinda Henneberger, senior writer at Bloomberg Politics and founder of AOL's Politics Daily, named Roll Call editor-in-chief — Melinda Henneberger named Roll Call editor-in-chief — <p>Melinda Henneberger has been named editor-in-chief of Roll Call, the paper announced …
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