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6:20 PM ET, January 7, 2023

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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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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.
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 …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
A look at the expansion of British news outlets into the US, looking for more ad revenue per user and a larger audience to compensate for years of print decline  —  More British news brands are targeting American growth.  —  The United States has the largest and best resourced news industry in the English-speaking world.
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 …
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
A US judge partly grants a summary judgment in YouTube's favor in a 2020 class action copyright lawsuit filed by musician Maria Schneider, as the case continues  —  A 2020 class action lawsuit filed by musician Maria Schneider accused YouTube of mass copyright infringement …
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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 …
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 …
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:
fuboTV raises its subscription prices by $5 to $75/month for the Pro plan and $85/month for the Elite plan, the company's second increase in eight months  —  For the second time in eight months, live TV streaming service fuboTV has raised its monthly subscription rates.
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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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
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
iSpot.tv: in 2022, US TV ad impressions fell 3.5% YoY to 8T and TV ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to $45.36B; CBS had the greatest share of TV ad impressions at 14.55%
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Erin Woo / The Information:
Source: Twitter laid off ~40 ad optimization data scientists and engineers, as the company targets areas that leadership considers to be failing or unimportant
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A profile of New Lines, an online-only magazine with a remote staff of 25 focused on local reporting from around the world, now printing quarterly editions
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
Ronan Shields / Digiday:
The Trade Desk announces Galileo, a demand-side platform based on its Unified ID 2.0 tool, and says that more than 50 North American media owners are using UID2