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Brian Fung / CNN:
Meta threatens to remove news from its platforms if Congress passes the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act as part of the annual defense bill — Facebook owner Meta threatened to remove news content from its platforms on Monday following reports that US lawmakers …
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Washington Post:
Filing: Rupert Murdoch will be deposed remotely next week as part of Dominion's $1.6B defamation lawsuit against Fox News; Lachlan was deposed on Monday — The Fox Corp chairman is the highest-profile individual to be questioned in the case, which hinges on Fox's coverage of the 2020 presidential election.
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Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery executives are close to picking “Max” as the name of the joint HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming service launching in spring 2023 — - Warner Bros. Discovery plans to merge its HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming services in the spring.
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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: AMC Networks names chairman James Dolan as interim executive chairman until a new CEO is named or until March 6, 2023; Dolan will receive no pay bump — The Knicks owner, who is currently chairman of the media company, will get no pay bump and is expected to fill the post until a new CEO is shortly named.
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Josh Dickey / The Wrap:
Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Orange Coast magazines are acquired by Engine Vision Media, founded by LA lawyers Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas, source says for $6M+ — The sale was for more than $6 million in cash, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: ABC News' president told staff that GMA anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes will be off the air while ABC weighs their romantic relationship disclosure — Godwin told ABC News employees during an editorial call Monday that Robach and Holmes had not violated any company policy …
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell says Peacock has 18M+ paid subscribers, up from 15M in September, driven by sports, content migrated from Hulu, and Universal movies — NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said Peacock has more than 18 million paid subscribers as of today, a nice bump from the 15 million …
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Unlike Getty Images, Adobe plans to sell stock images made by artists using generative AI tools like DALL-E, but requires that the images be labeled as such — Adobe is opening its stock images service to creations made with the help of generative AI programs like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion, the company tells Axios.
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Aaron Timms / The Guardian:
Fox Sports' World Cup coverage is an unmissable abomination filled with gaffes, tedious analogies to American sports, mispronunciations, and on-air awkwardness — Broadcaster has offered up a feast of gaffes, stupidity, and unconquerable on-air awkwardness for US viewers to enjoy — he World Cup!
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John Arlidge / The Sunday Times:
An interview with BBC chairman Richard Sharp on license fee alternatives, moving the business department to Manchester, maintaining “impartiality”, and more — Richard Sharp celebrated the BBC's centennial year not by enjoying newly discovered episodes of Hancock's Half Hour, but by developing a man crush on Tony Adams.
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
AAM: top 25 US magazines on Apple News+ had a combined circulation of 1.3M in H1 2022, up 6% YoY but down 18% from H2; People fell 36% YoY, New Yorker grew 75% — People magazine still tops the ranking, but has seen its readership on the app fall. — The growth of Apple News+ appears to be slowing …
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Anthony Crupi / Sportico:
Diamond Sports Group's board votes to block parent company Sinclair Broadcasting from having any further input into Bally Sports' day-to-day operations — Just days after taking a $1 billion impairment loss on its troubled Bally Sports unit, the board of Diamond Sports Group has voted …
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