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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Bloomberg doesn't plan to cover staff's Twitter Blue verification and CNN says it's “highly unlikely”; Puck calls the cost an extension of its marketing budget — - Twitter is planning to require users to pay to keep their verification. — Insider asked 14 newsrooms whether …
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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Journalists rethink using Twitter due to uncertainty around identity verification and its utility for reporting; Twitter's traffic-boosting value has been minor — The complaints, fears and angst surrounding changes at troubled tech giant Twitter began unraveling on its own platform …
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Disney misses on Q4 revenue, up 9% YoY to $20.15B vs. $21.24B est., but adds 12.1M Disney+ subscriptions for a total of 164.2M, vs. 160.45M est.; stock down 6%+ — - Disney reports earnings after the market closes on Tuesday. — The company will hold an earnings conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET.
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Disney hit 235.7M global streaming subscribers in Q4, above Netflix's 223.1M in Q3; Disney+ had 164.2M subscribers, Hulu had 47.2M, and ESPN+ had 24.3M — Disney reported results for the final quarter of its 2022 fiscal year today, revealing a total of 164.2 million Disney+ global subscribers …
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Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
News Corp reports Q1 revenue down 1% YoY to $2.48B, vs. $2.5B expected, boosted by its Dow Jones unit's subscription sales, helping partially offset ad weakness — News Corp (NWSA.O) missed Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as a prolonged weakness …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix bid on some ATP tennis tour streaming rights but dropped out and has considered bidding on other sports events or buying lower-profile leagues — Streaming giant eyes sports like tennis and surfing; Co-CEO Reed Hastings has been wary of rising costs for rights
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Jon Keegan / The Markup:
A look at data brokers selling “comprehensive” profiles of potential voters to campaigns, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time auctions — Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
A look at free news channels: NBC News Now averages 34M streaming hours per month in 2022, up 55% YoY; ABC News had 41M streaming hours in September, up 73% YoY — If TV news legends Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley were alive and still reporting today, you probably would be watching them on a streaming channel.
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
ITV reports external revenue for January to September rose 6% YoY to £2.52B, ITV Studios rose 16% YoY to £1.39B, and Q3 ad revenue fell 14% — But ITV Studios revenue grew 16 percent over the first nine months. — U.K. TV giant ITV reported a 14 drop in third-quarter advertising …
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Thania Garcia / Variety:
Condé Nast sues Drake and 21 Savage for using a fake Vogue cover to promote their album by posting on Instagram and pushing fake Vogue issues in North America — Drake and 21 Savage have been sued by media company Condé Nast, which owns Vogue, over the fake magazine cover used to promote their new album “Her Loss.”
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK police arrested an LBC reporter and two photographers, who were covering a protest by Just Stop Oil on the M25 highway, on Tuesday — A documentary photographer, a press photographer and a reporter for LBC were arrested and detained by police yesterday for filming an eco-protest by Just Stop Oil on the M25.
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nexstar, which owns The Hill and a 75% stake in The CW, reports Q3 net revenue up 9.7% YoY to $1.27B and political ad revenue of $129.3M, up 84.3% from Q3 2018 — The TV station group will look for a mix of scripted and unscripted content and shows that “appeal to a broader audience” on the CW.