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9:45 PM ET, September 1, 2023

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J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel, and other Disney outlets go dark on Charter's Spectrum, which has nearly 15M subscribers, after failing to sign 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 its Disney dispute “is not a typical carriage dispute”, and the cable company is 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” …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The US BLS August 2023 employment report shows the film, TV, and music industries shed 17,000 jobs, “reflecting strike activity”; other sectors saw job growth  —  The U.S. government's Bureau of Labor Statistics released the number in its August employment report.
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Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
California State Treasurer Fiona Ma sends letters to seven AMPTP member companies, urging them to negotiate “fair deals” to end the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes
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”
David Robb / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA's National Board votes unanimously to send a strike authorization vote to its members in preparation of upcoming negotiations with video game firms  —  SAG-AFTRA, which has been on strike against film and scripted TV productions since July 14, is now gearing up for another possible strike …
Reuters:
Canada tries to address Big Tech's Bill C-18 concerns, saying Google and Meta would pay publishers ~$126.6M and ~$44M per year; Meta plans to keep blocking news  —  Canada unveiled draft rules on Friday for a law to compel internet giants to pay news outlets, saying it was addressing …
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”  —  A nonprofit watchdog group has found that the right-wing group PragerU has pushed out more than 100 political ads …
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The Guardian joins other publishers, including Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, and CNN, in blocking OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler  —  Publisher is latest news organisation to block the artificial intelligence company from harvesting content to create its tools
New York Times:
Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators  —  The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restrict Meta's data-collection practices.
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. …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Amber de Botton, the UK prime minister's director of communications, leaves, after joining in October 2022; de Botton was previously ITV News' head of UK news  —  Amber de Botton was the second ITV News journalist to be snapped up by Rishi Sunak.  —  Update 1 September 2023 …
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
A look at Pamplonews, a WhatsApp-only daily newsletter covering cultural news in Pamplona, Spain, started in May 2023 by a former CNN en Español managing editor  —  “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.”
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Around 248 journalists at UK regional publisher National World vote to strike over a pay dispute; the NUJ rejected a 4.5% pay raise offer backdated to April 1  —  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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