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3:45 AM ET, December 21, 2022

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the NFL is in advanced talks to give YouTube exclusive Sunday Ticket rights; a deal could be reached as early as December 21 after an NFL owner meeting  —  DirecTV currently pays for rights to subscription package that allows football fans to watch most Sunday afternoon games
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: 9% of Netflix's US sign-ups in November were for its ad tier; ~57% of ad-tier subscribers were people re-joining or new signups, while ~43% downgraded  —  Streaming giant's ad-backed plan accounted for 9% of new signups in the U.S. in November, according to subscription-analytics firm Antenna
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter pilots Blue for Business with some accounts, helping publishers identify brands and key employees associated with them via badges  —  Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue.  At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses.
Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
The UK's IPSO says Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column, where he said he “hated” Meghan Markle, received 20K+ complaints, more than all the complaints to IPSO in 2021  —  Ipso receives in excess of 17,500 objections to Sun article, more than the regulator received in the whole of 2021
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Insider Intelligence: Google will capture 28.8% of US digital ad revenue in 2022 and Meta will grab 19.6%, for a combined 48.4%, down from a 54.7% peak in 2017  —  Google and Meta, known together in the ad industry as the “duopoly,” are expected to bring in less than half of all U.S. digital advertising …
Micah Lee / The Intercept:
Donie O'Sullivan, Drew Harwell, and other journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts despite lifted suspensions, until they delete a specific tweet  —  I've been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
US lawmakers left out a proposal from the $1.7T omnibus spending bill to make the PACER online court records system free  —  U.S. lawmakers have left a proposal to make the federal judiciary's PACER online court records system free out of a sprawling, $1.66 trillion spending measure unveiled on Tuesday …
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Internal memo: Paramount Global no longer plans to host its May 2023 upfront presentation for ad buyers at Carnegie Hall, favoring “intimate gatherings” instead  —  Signaling the end of a media business ritual, Paramount Global has indicated it will not host an upfront presentation …
Stephanie Sugars / U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
In 2022, 12 US journalists were arrested or detained, far fewer than in 2020 or 2021; eight were detained during a weekend of protests over reproductive rights  —  Eight journalists detained over one weekend of reproductive rights protests this summer  —  On a Friday this June …
Alistair Gray / Financial Times:
The Dow Jones Media Titans index, which tracks 30 of the world's biggest media companies, saw its total market value shrink 40% from $1.35T to $808B in 2022  —  Streaming services hit by rising costs, consumer belt-tightening and drop in advertising  —  More than $500bn has been wiped off …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
David Satin / The Streamable:
Ampere Analysis: the Disney Bundle is an effective tool against price sensitivity among customers and 32% of Hulu's total users have bundled it with Disney+  —  Many have speculated that the way forward for an increasingly mature streaming market is aggregation.
 
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Olivia Konotey-Ahulu / Bloomberg:
Sources: the UK's Telegraph Media Group cuts UK staff paternity leave from six months to two, citing “significant operational challenges” since the 2019 policy
Sara Fischer / Axios:
ProPublica plans to return the $1.6M the outlet received from SBF's family foundation, setting aside the money until authorities decide where it should be sent
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice Media expects to miss its 2022 revenue goal by $100M+, generating ~$600M, or roughly flat compared with 2021, a blow as the company pursues a sale
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Nielsen: Fox News' The Five tops Tucker Carlson Tonight as 2022's most watched cable news show with ~3.4M viewers on average, a first for a non-primetime show
Andrew Dalton / Associated Press:
Jurors find Harvey Weinstein guilty on three of seven charges of rape and sexual assault at the disgraced movie mogul's Los Angeles criminal trial
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Tumblr adds support for livestreaming to its iOS and Android apps in the US; the service is powered by video platform Livebox, which lets users tip streamers
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Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The European Commission sends Meta a statement of objections for alleged antitrust breaches over tying Marketplace to Facebook and imposing unfair trading terms