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The NFL launches its NFL+ streaming service, offering a $4.99/month tier and $9.99/month Premium tier with full game replays; NFL+ replaces Game Pass in the US — It will cost $4.99 per month at launch Monday, and include live local games on mobile devices, as well as live audio of every game.
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How Apple, Amazon, and Google are trying to win live sports streaming rights by persuading skeptical leagues to switch from traditional TV and cable networks — Competing for rights to broadcast games from the N.F.L. and other leagues could be hard for broadcast and cable companies that “aren't playing by the same financial rules.”


Warner Bros. Discovery cancels the TBS late-night show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, as it cuts its content spend for big cable networks like TBS and TNT — “As we continue to shape our new programming strategy, we've made some difficult, business-based decisions,” TBS said in a statement.
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[Thread] Erin Overbey, who last week tweeted that The New Yorker punished her after she spoke up about gender inequality at the outlet, says she has been fired — So the @New Yorker has fired me, effective immediately. I'm speaking with the union about potentially filing a grievance on the termination. But here are some things that I will say....
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Cuadrilla Capital acquires Chartbeat, a content insights service used by web publishers to measure and analyze traffic; Chartbeat has raised $31M over 12 years — Chartbeat, a content insights platform that's used by web publishers to measure and analyze traffic, was purchased by Cuadrilla Capital …
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A look at how The New York Times uses Twitter Spaces to create live audio events, less polished than podcasts, to discuss news and aims to reach nonsubscribers — The newsroom sees Twitter Spaces, a live audio platform on the social media app, as a staging ground. It might be less polished, “but it also has that reality.”
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Netflix rolls out a button for iOS and iPadOS that takes users directly to its website to sign up, avoiding Apple's App Store cut via the API for “reader apps” — Earlier this year, Apple began allowing “reader” apps to provide external links for customers so they can log …
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Meta launches Music Revenue Sharing to let US creators include licensed music in their 60+ second Facebook videos and earn a 20% share of in-stream ad revenue — Meta announced today that creators on Facebook can now earn money through their Facebook videos that use licensed music.
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Keith Olbermann will launch a daily podcast next month in partnership with iHeartMedia, covering a mix of political and sports commentary in ~35 minute episodes — ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann,’ on iHeartMedia, to include mix of political and sports commentary
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Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and the WSJ link Trump's lack of action on Jan. 6 to a character failure; the Post calls him unworthy to be president again — New York CNN — — One of Donald Trump's favorite newspapers — controlled by his media ally Rupert Murdoch — says Trump is …
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Memo: Kobalt Music Publishing will pull its catalog of 700K songs from Facebook and Instagram in the US following the expiration of its licensing deal with Meta — The other day MBW jokingly remarked that the global music business had become a little “cozy” this summer - with a distinct lack of companies (publicly) falling out.
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France's National Assembly votes to scrap the TV license fee; public broadcasting will now be financed by a “fraction” of VAT revenue, estimated at ~€3.7B — France's National Assembly voted on Saturday to approve a government bill that scraps a TV license fee financing nearly 85% …


Novara Media, a left-wing UK nonprofit news outlet, says it has hit 10,000 monthly donors and now has 24 staff, all paid the same £18/hour wage — Un-paywalled Novara Media has hit 10,000 monthly donors following a fundraising drive. — The left-wing, non-profit opinion and news project …
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