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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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.”
Erin Overbey / @erinoverbey:
[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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Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Sources: The New Yorker's letter firing Erin Overbey accuses her of repeated “baseless accusations against colleagues”; she calls the accusations “absurd” — This reporting appears as one of several scoops featured in this week's edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
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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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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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Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
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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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
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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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and Wall Street Journal link Trump's January 6 inaction 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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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Digital ad company Tremor International to buy adtech firm Amobee, including its demand-side platform, for $239M from Singtel, which bought it in 2012 for $321M — Amobee parent Singtel said last year it was reviewing its investments after the pandemic hurt performance
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Kate Dwyer / New York Times:
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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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Keith Olbermann plans to launch a daily podcast in August 2022 in partnership with iHeartMedia, featuring 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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