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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
DirecTV strikes a nonexclusive multiyear deal with EverPass Media, formed to distribute NFL games to commercial spots, to keep broadcasting NFL Sunday Ticket — - DirecTV has struck a multiyear deal with EverPass Media to commercially provide the NFL's “Sunday Ticket” package.
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Financial Times:
An in-depth look at Vice's downfall and private equity's ill-fated bet on media's future; some shareholders blame TPG, whose $450M investment was wiped to zero — The evaporation of TPG's $450mn investment shows what can happen when Wall Street collides with an uncontrollable creative industry
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Emma Hurt / Axios:
How CNN helped and benefited from Atlanta, as the company prepares to move out from downtown's CNN Center into its original, smaller Techwood campus in Midtown — Cable News Network — CNN — was founded in Atlanta in 1980 by media mogul Ted Turner as the world's first 24-hour television news network.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Memo: CNN shifts CNN en Español's production to Mexico City, scaling back linear TV work and expanding mobile video; source: Atlanta and Miami may see job cuts — CNN will shift the bulk of its operations behind its Spanish-language efforts to Mexico City, scaling back production …
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Talking Biz News, @jason and @variety
Wall Street Journal:
A look at Disney and Comcast's Hulu fight; sources say their Hulu valuations vary by tens of billions, they're in arbitration, and Comcast stopped funding Hulu — Parent companies are in final phase of battle marked by legal threats, broken promises and secret arbitration
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures — - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement plans evening were derailed by massive technical glitches …
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Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
MoviePass relaunches in the US with four credit-based tiers, starting at $10/month for one to three movies; a film's “cost” in credits depends on the showtime — As promised, MoviePass is returning. After last year's Labor Day beta/waiting list launch, the movie theater subscription service …
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CNET, MoviePass Inc., SlashFilm, Gizmodo, The Verge and The Hollywood Reporter
Access Now:
Pegasus was used in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict to target at least five journalists, among others, in 2021 and 2022, the first documented use in a war — The Armenia spyware victims include a former Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia (the Ombudsperson) …
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TASS, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, @natynettle, @rferlpress, Politico, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, @pressfreedom, @cpj_eurasia, @naghdalyan, Committee to Protect …, The Guardian and Wired, more at Techmeme »
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google DeepMind details how its visual language model Flamingo generates descriptions for YouTube Shorts, stored as metadata and helping improve discoverability — Google just combined DeepMind and Google Brain into one big AI team, and on Wednesday, the new Google DeepMind shared details …
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@glenngabe, DeepMind Blog and The Messenger
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Mansa, a free, ad-supported streaming service centered on Black culture, partners with AMC Theatres to exhibit its original features and series in US theaters — Mansa, a free, ad-supported streaming service centered on Black culture, has struck a distribution deal with AMC Theatres …
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The Streamable and The Wrap
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Twitch raises the price of Turbo, its ad-free subscription that offers extra emoticons, chat badges, and more; the US price jumps from $8.99 to $11.99 per month — Twitch is raising the monthly price of Twitch Turbo, its monthly subscription that lets you pay to remove most ads …
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@tomwarren and @donhaci, more at Techmeme »
Financial Times:
Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe says AI can help authors generate more content; Bertelsmann uses AI to analyze the emotions of characters on shows to help place ads — Thomas Rabe says that despite copyright challenges machine-generated content could be ‘very positive’
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