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J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel, and other Disney outlets go dark on Charter's Spectrum, which serves ~15M subscribers, after failing to agree on a new carriage pact — ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel and other outlets owned by the Walt Disney Co. have gone dark on Charter Spectrum cable systems …
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Charter says the dispute with Disney “is not a typical carriage dispute”, and it's prepared to “move on” from its video business if no deal is made — The cable giant, with nearly 15 million TV subs, told analysts Friday that it is prepared to “move on” …
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WNEP-TV:
Times-Shamrock Communications is selling its four Pennsylvania dailies to Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group; the newspapers' founding family pans the sale — The sale includes four local daily papers and several weekly and periodic publications. — SCRANTON, Pa. …
Chris Willman / Variety:
Taylor Swift plans to release her concert film in AMC theaters on October 13 in the US; in a first, AMC plans to act as a distributor to unaffiliated theaters — Anyone who couldn't procure tickets for Taylor Swift's record-breaking stadium tour in the U.S. may be about to have their wounded …
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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
California Treasurer Fiona Ma sends letters to seven companies that are members of AMPTP, urging them to negotiate “fair deals” to end the two Hollywood strikes — California State Treasurer Fiona Ma sent letters this week to studios represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
IAC Chairman Barry Diller says traditional Hollywood studios should negotiate directly with unions, splitting from Apple, Amazon, and Netflix, a mutual “enemy”
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at Pamplonews, a WhatsApp-only daily newsletter covering cultural news in Pamplona, Spain, run by a former managing editor of CNN en Español — “There's no point in making a wonderful website or an amazing app if people aren't going to the website or downloading the app.”
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Amber de Botton leaves as director of communications for UK's prime minister, after joining in October 2022; she was previously the head of UK news at ITV News — Amber de Botton was the second ITV News journalist to be snapped up by Rishi Sunak. — Update 1 September 2023 …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Around 248 journalists at UK regional publisher National World vote to strike over a pay dispute; NUJ rejected an offer of a 4.5% pay raise backdated to 1 April — Some 78% of 248 journalists said they would be prepared to strike. — Journalists at National World have voted to take strike action …
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta begins testing keyword search on Threads in Australia and New Zealand, and plans a rollout to other English-speaking countries before adding more languages — Threads launched one of the most anticipated features, a web version of the platform, last week.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube Music redesigns its Now Playing screen on Android and iOS with larger cover art and a comments section, after launching real-time lyrics last week — After pulling a variant at the start of this year, YouTube Music is rolling out the latest redesign of Now Playing on Android and iOS, adding a comments section.
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Josef Adalian / Vulture:
WBD's Max rolls out Top 10 movies and TV show lists in line with Netflix, Prime Video, and Apple TV+; WBD bases rankings on unique views of at least two minutes — Max is finally getting into the top-ten game: Starting today, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer will begin publishing daily lists …
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The Moscow Times:
A Russian court finds journalists Ruslan Leviev and Michael Nacke guilty of pushing “war fakes” and hands out 11-year sentences; both now live outside of Russia — A Russian court has handed 11-year prison sentences to exiled anti-war journalists Ruslan Leviev and Michael Nacke …
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