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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
UK Culture Secretary confirms the BBC TV license fee will be frozen at £159 for the next two years, but says the funding model will be reviewed in 2027 — U.K. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has confirmed that the U.K. TV license fee, which is the primary source of income for the BBC …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
DirecTV plans to drop One America News Network after its current agreement expires, which a source says is in early April; DirecTV is OANN's largest distributor — DirecTV, one of the largest U.S. pay-TV providers, plans to drop One America News Network, dealing a major blow …
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
FX Research: a record 559 scripted original TV series were released in 2021, up 13% YoY, likely due to 2020 shows being delayed by COVID-19 production shutdowns — Peak TV is back. After a dip in 2020 — the first decline since FX began tallying the number of scripted series every year …
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Marie Le Conte / VICE:
A look at Politics For All, a UK news Twitter account started by a teenager in August 2019 and that amassed nearly half a million followers before it was banned — Teen admins, shady ads and an origin story that begins with Alex from Glasto - how exactly did PFA get so big, only to disappear so dramatically?
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Dan Primack / Axios:
Marc Benioff says Time projects 30% revenue growth to $200M+ in 2022; EIC says about one-quarter of the revenue will come from a two-year-old studio unit — When Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne bought Time magazine from Meredith Corp. in 2018, it read to many as a vanity purchase.
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Manori Ravindran / Variety:
DAZN appoints Shay Segev as sole CEO; James Rushton, DAZN co-founder who was serving as co-CEO, will continue with his existing responsibilities — DAZN Group has rejigged its leadership structure, appointing Shay Segev as its sole CEO. — Segev joined the sports streamer in June 2021.
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Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Netflix raises its monthly subscription prices by $1 to $2 in the US and Canada; the standard US plan has increased from $13.99 to $15.49 per month — Netflix Inc has raised its monthly subscription price by $1 to $2 per month in the United States depending on the plan, the company said on Friday …
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Wall Street Journal:
State AGs' lawsuit alleges Google misled publishers and advertisers for years about ad pricing by deflating sales for some while increasing prices for buyers — Details show Google employees fretting its ad tech auctions were ‘untruthful’ and based in ‘insider information’
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In court docs, state AGs allege that Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai personally approved a secret 2018 deal giving Facebook advantages in Google's ad auctions
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HuffPost:
Use of “officer-involved” and “police-involved” phrases fell in US newspaper stories after George Floyd's murder in May 2020 but started rising again in 2021 — Following the murder of George Floyd, The Associated Press issued guidance that reporters should not describe instances …
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Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
A guessing game arises over who will land the NYT's Media Equation column, as anonymous insiders float names including Wesley Lowery and Katie Rosman — Ben Smith's abrupt exit has sparked a newsroom guessing game for his successor—Katie Rosman? Wesley Lowery?—though, as one insider put it …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Patrick Soon-Shiong outlines the future of the LA Times, aiming to print while “economically possible” and to reach 1M digital subscribers by the end of 2022 — Next month marks four years since Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong agreed a $500m deal to buy his local newspaper, the Los Angeles Times.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Amazon, Condé Nast, DraftKings, and TPG were interested in The Athletic, and the NYT bumped its initial offer by 10% to secure the deal — - The Athletic's $550 million sale to The New York Times is seen as a major success by some close to the company but disappointing to others.
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Seven The A.V. Club staffers in Chicago face a deadline in deciding on a move to LA; WGA, East reps say G/O Media made the offer as a ploy to replace them — Katie Rife, a senior writer for entertainment site the A.V. Club, was working past midnight on a review last week when her friend sent her a text.
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