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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC has discussed giving the 10pm hour to local TV stations to program every day as a cost-cutting move, given broadcast TV's declining popularity — Network has discussed giving 10 p.m. hour to local station partners, a cost-cutting move as interest in broadcast TV wanes
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix plans to charge $7-$9/month for its ad-supported tier in the US, with ~4 minutes of ads/hour, and may launch it in 2022 in a half dozen markets — Netflix Inc. is considering pricing its new advertising-supported tier at $7 to $9 a month, half as much as its current …
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Kirk McKeand / USA Today:
USA Today updates its article alleging Amazon is buying EA, saying that Amazon is not expected to bid and USA Today's partner GLHF violated sourcing standards — Editor's note (10:37 a.m. ET): Earlier today, GLHF — a gaming/e-sports outlet and content partner of For The Win …
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Constance Grady / Vox:
A look at the long-term consolidation in book publishing and the arguments in the antitrust case against the Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger — The Justice Department is suing to block Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster's proposed merger. The publishers' defense hinged on their own incompetence.
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Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information:
TikTok has cut jobs in its US advertising department as part of a restructuring, offering affected employees the chance to find roles in other units — TikTok has cut employees from its U.S. ad department as part of a restructuring of the unit, as the fast-growing social media app responds …
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Thomas Claburn / The Register:
The White House issues guidance to agencies to update policies by 2026 to make publicly funded research papers available to all, without embargoes or paywalls — Remembering Aaron Swartz — Fourteen years after the late Aaron Swartz published his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto calling …
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Alex Kirshner / The Atlantic:
Streaming has made watching sports more expensive and more annoying than ever as games are fractionalized across different platforms — Few things are more satisfying for a certain type of college-football fan than a Notre Dame loss, and all the better if it's an upset.
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Ariel Shapiro / The Verge:
George Lopez joins other comedians in suing SiriusXM's Pandora, saying he is entitled to two copyrights, one for recording and one for underlying literary work — Lopez is seeking up to $5.5 million from the streamer — The lawsuits are piling up for Pandora, which has been accused by comedians …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Audacy, the radio and podcasting company once called Entercom, risks being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange as its stock price remains under $1/share — It's been an ugly year for most stocks, but for Audacy the pain has been especially acute. — Shares of the radio broadcast …
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Reuters:
The proposed takeover of media outlet NDTV in India by the conglomerate of Gautam Adani, Asia's richest man, sparks concerns about its editorial independence — For years Indian television company NDTV (NDTV.NS) pursued an independent line critical of the government even as others embraced strident nationalism.
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Twitter:
Twitter rolls out podcast integration into its redesigned Spaces Tab, starting with some English-speaking users globally on iOS and Android — Twitter helps people connect with unique and compelling voices around the world. With podcasts, we're taking that connection to a whole new level.
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Liv Moloney / INMA:
The Economist's head of social media discusses how the magazine is reaching new audiences on Instagram, where two-thirds of its 5.8M followers are aged 18 to 34 — Instagram is a busy, visual platform. To its users, “news” can mean anything from holiday photos or the arrival of a baby to a product launch.
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