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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Roku reports ending 2022 with more than 70M accounts globally, up 16.5% from the end of 2021, and says streaming hours grew 19% YoY to 87.4B in 2022 — The customer total was up 16.5% from the end of 2021, when Roku totaled 60.1 million global accounts. — Per Roku, streaming hours reached …
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Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
Roku let Burrow, a channel dedicated to QAnon conspiracy theories, launch despite seemingly violating its content rules; Burrow got 300K+ installs in 20 days — Roku may be making money on the channel via ads, despite its rules against such content — Streaming platform Roku has allowed …
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Camila DeChalus / Washington Post:
The US House allowed C-SPAN to let cameras roam the chamber until a speaker is elected, showing loud booing, animated conversations, sleeping kids, and more — Loud booing. Animated conversations in the aisles of the House chamber. Sleeping children. Lawmakers scrolling on their phones.
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David Satin / The Streamable:
Some doubt YouTube will get its money's worth from its $2B NFL Sunday Ticket deal; one analyst estimates YouTube TV will need 4.5M new subscribers to break even — NFL fans across the country rejoiced when it was announced that Alphabet Inc. had acquired the rights to the league's …
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Pop-Up Magazine shuts down after hosting live storytelling shows since its 2009 launch, citing the pandemic and economic downturn and affecting 18+ employees — The live events publisher explored a sale or investment prior to closing — The live performance publisher Pop-Up Magazine …
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Roxanna Asgarian / The Texas Tribune:
In January, a US appeals court will weigh a citizen journalist's First Amendment rights against qualified immunity, which shields public officials from lawsuits — Priscilla Villarreal was arrested over her Facebook postings. In a rare proceeding, the entire 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
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Dan Belson / Capital Gazette:
The families of slain Capital Gazette staff settle their lawsuit against The Baltimore Sun and Tribune Publishing that claimed the shooting was “preventable” — The families of Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters, along with some Capital employees …
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Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Vince McMahon plans to return to WWE to pursue a sale of the business, after retiring as CEO and chairman in July 2022 amid sexual misconduct claims against him — Vince McMahon, the majority owner and former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., WWE 2.26%increase …
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Daniel Frankel / Next TV:
Amazon Prime Video averaged 9.6M viewers for its first season as the exclusive rights holder of the NFL's Thursday Night Football, down 41% from 2021's average — The better news? Amazon Prime Video's median viewer age was seven years younger than any other NFL TV rights package
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Twitter verified a Washington Post columnist's fake US Senator Ed Markey account, after Elon Musk said “all verified accounts will be manually authenticated” — Elon Musk said Twitter would begin authenticating users who pay $8 for Blue. Our tech columnist was still able to get a checkmark for an impostor Sen. Ed Markey.
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Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:
fuboTV quietly raises the prices of its plans by $5 a month for new subscribers, its second increase in eight months; the base package now starts at $75 a month — For the second time in eight months, live TV streaming service fuboTV has raised its monthly subscription rates.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The New York Times adds an arbitration clause to its TOS, following Bloomberg, Politico, and others, despite its own coverage detailing the ills of the practice — Few outlets can match the New York Times when it comes to exposing the pitfalls of forced arbitration.
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