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ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC cut away from Trump's news conference on Thursday to correct his many false claims, while CNN and Fox News carried it live — Fox News and CNN stuck with the White House news conference, but reported afterward that the president offered no evidence for his accusations of vote fraud.
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Twitter permanently bans Steve Bannon's @WarRoomPandemic and YouTube pulls episode of his show after he called for execution of FBI director Wray and Dr. Fauci — Former Presidential advisor and right-wing pundit Steve Bannon had his show suspended from Twitter and an episode removed …
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Netflix is testing Direct, its linear channel with real-time, scheduled programming from its library, which is accessible on its site to subscribers, in France — Netflix has chosen France to test its first channel offering. — Named Direct, the linear channel — which is only available to subscribers …
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Tegna plans to launch OTT ad-supported streaming apps for its TV stations on Amazon Fire TV by the end of 2020; it is already available on Roku — Tegna, a U.S. broadcast television station group, said it is planning to launch OTT streaming apps for its stations on Amazon Fire TV by the end of 2020.
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Discovery Q3: net income rises to $300M from $262M on revenue of $2.6B, down 4% YoY; CEO says new streaming service will be unveiled in December — Discovery plans to offer full details on its soon-to-launch streaming service in December, the company's top executive said Thursday …
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Memo: Jonah Peretti says BuzzFeed will be profitable for 2020 despite the pandemic and employees affected by earlier salary cuts will get “restoration payments” — Last month, WSJ reported BuzzFeed was “on target to break even this year for the first time since 2014”: https://www.wsj.com/... Today, CEO Jonah Peretti told staff BuzzFeed reached profitability + all staffers affected by graduated salary reductions will have salaries restored https://twitter.com/...
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Data privacy campaigners file a legal challenge against ICO, the UK's data protection watchdog, arguing data use in ad tech remains a systemic problem — The UK's data watchdog is facing a legal challenge after it took the decision to quietly close a complaint against the adtech industry's …
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ViacomCBS says Q3 domestic streaming revenue rose 56% YoY to $636M with 17.9M subscribers, up 72% YoY; Pluto TV MAUs reached 28.4M, up 57% YoY — ViacomCBS Inc. reported strong growth at its three streaming services, a sign it is well-positioned as audiences shift online from its bread-and-butter business of pay TV.
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As India falls two places on the global press freedom index, Arnab Goswami, an anchor of India's Republic TV, has been detained on charges of abetting a suicide — The conservative anchor Arnab Goswami was detained on charges of abetting a suicide in Mumbai, where an opposition party is in power.
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Disney to lay off 50+ employees drawn from studio marketing, its NY-based theatrical unit, and Searchlight Pictures, also cuts several hundred open positions — Disney has enacted more layoffs, impacting more than 50 employees in the studio's marketing group, the NY-based theatrical division and Searchlight Pictures.


Vimeo raises $150M, says revenue grew 44% YoY to $75.1M in Q3, it has 1.5M paying subscribers, 3,500+ enterprise clients, is contemplating a spin-off from IAC — Vimeo has raised $150 million in new equity funding, announced in conjunction with the third quarter earnings of its parent company IAC.
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Loupe, which takes a 30% cut of sales of prints of paintings and photos it shows as slideshows on Pluto TV and others, says it'll have 2M viewers by end of 2020 — Good morning, and welcome to Protocol Next Up, a weekly newsletter about the future of technology and entertainment.
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