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3:45 PM ET, September 28, 2016

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Nielsen: presidential debate drew a total of 84M viewers across 13 traditional TV channels; streaming alternatives not included in count  —  Monday night was the most-watched debate in American history.  —  More than 80 million people tuned in to see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off …
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
YouTube says it had nearly 2M concurrent viewers for Monday night's presidential debate, making it one of the most watched live streams of all time  —  Record turnout for a live streaming political event  —  YouTube says it had nearly 2 million live concurrent viewers during Monday night's …
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Despite network-wide memo saying unscientific online polls do not meet Fox News' editorial standards, Hannity, others cited them as evidence Trump won debate  —  A Fox News executive sent a memo to television producers and the politics team on Tuesday afternoon reminding employees …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Twitter rolls out the ability to create and curate Moments for all users via the web app, coming soon to mobile  —  Twitter Moments — those collections of tweets about certain subjects, often the ones that are in the news and are being discussed by lots of users — now make a lot more sense.
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
Nielsen launches digital content ratings Friday, measuring audiences for video, audio, and text across devices; clients include BuzzFeed, Vice, Tastemade, AOL  —  Another piece of Nielsen's total audience measurement rollout has fallen into place, as the company will launch its new digital content ratings metric this week.
Alan Prendergast / Denver Westword:
How Alden Global Capital is harvesting the cash from The Denver Post, which has lost a third of its staff since June 2015  —  Two years ago, Woodrow Wilson Paige Jr. flew to New York in a state of keen anticipation.  He had been summoned by the top management of MediaNews Group …
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos joins Spotify's board  —  Spotify wants to make a splash in video — kind of like Netflix.  —  Spotify wants to branch out from music to video.  This could help: The streaming music company is adding Ted Sarandos, Netflix's content boss, to its board of directors.
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Post-bankruptcy, film studio Relativity aims to reinvent itself, with funding from a billionaire backer and the hire of ex-House of Cards producer Dana Brunetti  —  A year ago, the company's epic meltdown ended in bankruptcy.  Now, in an exclusive interview, Kavanaugh reveals his relaunch strategy …
Discussion: @tatianasiegel27
Alex T. Williams / Columbia Journalism Review:
Number of journalists at digital-only publishers has plateaued in the past three years, suggesting economic models for digital native publishers are in flux  —  It probably comes as no surprise that jobs for journalists at newspapers continue to disappear.  But in a disturbing development …
Discussion: @ajlisteningpost and Forbes
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Andrea Tantaros' attorney says she has turned down seven-figure settlement from Fox and will continue to press ahead with her case against the network  —  The attorney for former Fox News Channel personality Andrea Tantaros said Wednesday the host had turned down a settlement offer in the …
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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