Mediagazer: Fox News partners with Warner Bros. to offer six classic Clint Eastwood films on Fox Nation, as the streaming service expands beyond news and politics (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

11:25 AM ET, July 28, 2021

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Fox News partners with Warner Bros. to offer six classic Clint Eastwood films on Fox Nation, as the streaming service expands beyond news and politics — Fox Nation has enlisted a new face to help it navigate TV's streaming wars. — As part of a licensing pact with WarnerMedia's Warner Bros. studio …

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K.J. Yossman / Variety:

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Katie Robertson / New York Times:

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:

NBA partners with iHeartMedia to develop a slate of daily and weekly podcasts using NBA's audio archives — - Basketball league will mine its archive for rare audio clips — Radio giant will handle sales, distribution and production — The National Basketball Association is developing …

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

UK's ITV says its ad revenue grew 29% YoY in H1 2021, up 87% in May and 115% in June; ITV now has 3M global subs and BritBox International has 2M subs — CEO Carolyn McCall said the U.K. TV giant is “emerging from the worst effects of the pandemic.” — U.K. TV giant ITV reported …

Kate Kaye / Digiday:

In letters to companies, CA AG says data sharing via analytics trackers, like cookies, for ad and analytics purposes fits CCPA's definition of a data “sale” — “Why would I care about cookies?” — The question was one privacy lawyer Odia Kagan heard from a client …

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Jennifer Harper / Washington Times:

Former Drudge Report editor Joseph Curl launches a conservative-oriented news aggregation site called Off the Press — The liberal news media just got some competition. — Joseph Curl, a veteran journalist who covered the White House for The Washington Times and spent four years as an editor …

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