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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Apple launches its MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, playoffs, and more for $14.99/month or $99/year — Today, Apple launched MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, Audi 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs …
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Sources: as Apple launches MLS Season Pass, the company is shopping ad packages for up to ~$4M per season, without guaranteeing advertisers viewership numbers — Apple Inc. will launch its new streaming service for Major League Soccer this week with a lot of the traditional practices of TV advertising kicked to the sidelines.
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Tom Scocca / Popula:
The New York Times' coverage of trans kids points to a newspaper crusade, focusing resources on a tiny segment of medical care compared to other teen procedures — A question to ask. At length. — EARIER THIS MONTH, the administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wrote to 12 state universities …
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Snap reports Q4 revenue flat YoY at $1.3B, vs. $1.31B est., DAUs up 17% YoY to 375M, and a $288M net loss, vs. $23M in net income YoY; stock drops 14%+ — - Snap missed on revenue for the fourth quarter but beat on earnings. — Snap had a rough 2022, as a slowing economy led numerous companies to slash their digital ad budgets.
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Jeff Gerth / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interviews with reporters, editors, and Donald Trump on how Russiagate coverage led to Pulitzer Prizes and retractions, shaped Trump's press relations, and more — Seven and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country's forty-fifth president …
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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
YouTube TV drops the MLB Network after failing to reach a deal for continued carriage; customers will also lose any recorded programming on their DVRs — After going all of 2022 without a single carriage dispute, live TV streaming service YouTube TV will see its first big channel drop from the service this year.
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Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Sources: publishers' Q1 ad revenue faces a rocky start, with January pacing 10% to 25% off forecasts and fewer clients paying for full-year deals — The first quarter is off to a rocky start for publishers' advertising businesses, and while that might not come as a surprise given the state of the economy …
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Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information:
Sources: seeking to boost Reels' quality, Meta executives are leaning toward relaxing the company's long-standing opposition to sharing ad revenue with creators — When Wall Street analysts dial into an earnings call tomorrow with Mark Zuckerberg, they're likely to pepper the Meta Platforms CEO …
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
KPCC, Los Angeles' most popular FM public radio station, plans to change its name to LAist 89.3 and consolidate its radio, podcast, digital, and event offerings — Don't touch that dial! You've still got the right channel. — Los Angeles' most popular FM public radio station, KPCC …
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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
USC: in 2022, women made up 30% of artists on Billboard's Hot 100 Year-End Chart, up from 23.3% in 2021, 14% of songwriters, flat YoY, and 3.4% of producers — The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released its sixth annual survey of the Billboard Hot 100 charts Tuesday and found progress in several areas on gender and POC diversity.
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Louis Menand / New Yorker:
A look at the roots of media “objectivity” and growing public distrust, especially for the Washington press corps after 1968's Democratic National Convention — Half a century ago, most of the public said they trusted the news media. Today, most say they don't.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
TV talk show Dr. Phil will end original episodes in the spring after 21 seasons; CBS Media Ventures hopes to air syndicated shows through the 2023-2024 season — “Dr. Phil,” one of daytime TV's stalwart talk shows, will end its run of original episodes in the spring after 21 seasons.
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Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Showtime pulled short-lived shows from its streaming service, like Kidding and American Gigolo, and is expected to let rights holders shop their series — ‘Kidding,’ ‘Super Pumped,’ ‘American Rust,’ ‘On Becoming a God in Central Florida,’ ‘Let the Right One In’ and 'American Gigolo …
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Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:
Paramount Global plans to merge its Showtime streaming service with Paramount+'s ad-free tier later in 2023 and call the new offering Paramount+ with SHOWTIME
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Matt Binder / Mashable:
Twitter shuts down CoTweets, an experimental feature that let two users author and publish a tweet in tandem; in a month, CoTweets will show a single author — If you're reading this, it's already too late to post a CoTweet. — Did you use Twitter's fairly new CoTweets feature?
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