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Sources: Sunday Ticket media rights have become protracted because the NFL wants to bundle other media assets, including NFL Network and the NFL RedZone — Talks for Sunday Ticket are expected to spill into next year, as Apple faces increased competition from Google for the league's last available TV rights.
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Some White House press corps members objected to lack of access to Naomi Biden's wedding, after Vogue posted a story on the event, with images shot in advance — The White House Press corps is up in arms over a Vogue cover story on the wedding of President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden …
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Alex Frangos / Wall Street Journal:
Major News Corp and Fox shareholder Independent Franchise Partners opposes the merger, saying it would not realize News Corp's “substantial intrinsic value” — Independent Franchise Partners, one of the largest non-Murdoch holders of both companies, says a combination on its own …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Amazon plans to spend $1B+ per year to produce and release movies for theaters, starting with a few releases in 2023, and eventually 12 to 15 annually — Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend more than $1 billion a year to produce movies that it will release in theaters …
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Bob Iger returns to a more competitive and challenging streaming landscape and should steer Disney+ to profitability without cannibalizing Disney's other units — Incoming CEO championed Disney+, but needs to steer streaming business toward profitability without cannibalizing other Disney units
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bob Iger loomed large over Bob Chapek's short tenure as Disney CEO, leading Chapek to complain that he was being undermined as soon as he was promoted
Sources: Bob Iger loomed large over Bob Chapek's short tenure as Disney CEO, leading Chapek to complain that he was being undermined as soon as he was promoted
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Washington Post:
Sources detail Elon Musk's rapid dismantling of Twitter's safety work, narrowing its scope to whatever he deems violent, threatening “sticks and stones” talk — Amid the wider turmoil since his takeover last month, Musk has moved rapidly to undermine Twitter's deliberative content moderation system
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Internal AP messages show how a less-than-10-minute conversation led to the retracted report inaccurately suggesting Russia launched a missile strike on Poland — Your Email addressSign Up — A 10-minute miscommunication on Slack between journalists at the Associated Press resulted …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mark Cuban's interactive streaming app Fireside acquires streaming platform Stremium and plans to launch on smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and other devices — Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside, which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive …
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Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Reporters Without Borders sues French media regulator Arcom for letting satellite operator Eutelsat continue to broadcast three Russian channels — French rights group Reporters Without Borders has filed a lawsuit in France to try to prevent satellite operator Eutelsat from continuing to broadcast three Russian channels.
James Vincent / The Verge:
Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists' styles or generate photorealistic pictures of celebrities — Users of AI image generator Stable Diffusion are angry about an update to the software that “nerfs” its ability to generate NSFW output and pictures in the style of specific artists.
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Podcast network Luminary launches in India, which PwC says is the third largest podcast consumer market at 56.7M monthly listeners — Launched originally in the U.S. in 2018, Luminary operates a premium podcasting platform addressing a subscription audience with “smart and entertaining content.”
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Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times:
Omdia: in 2022, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Apple are on pace to take 68% of ~$500B in online ad revenue made by non-China companies, driven by video campaigns — TV and film companies are racing to capture some of the marketing cash pouring into the likes of YouTube
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
Amazon plans to release an eight-episode series about the FTX scandal, produced by the Russo brothers' company, AGBO, with David Weil set to write the pilot — An eight-episode limited series about the FTX scandal from Joe and Anthony Russo's production company, AGBO, has been set up at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.
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