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12:25 PM ET, September 12, 2023

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney and Charter reach an agreement to restore some channels, including ESPN and ABC, for the cable operator's nearly 15M Spectrum subscribers  —  Disney and Charter have decided to let ESPN sports take the field on traditional cable after all.  —  The two media giants …
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Disney and Charter's deal bundles ESPN+ with Spectrum TV Select Plus, and the upcoming ESPN streaming channel and Disney+'s ad tier with Spectrum TV Select  —  Disney and Charter have resolved the carriage dispute that blocked millions of viewers from watching ESPN, ABC, FX, and other Disney-owned networks.
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Spectrum will no longer carry some Disney-owned channels, like Freeform, Disney Junior, Disney XD, FXX, and Nat Geo Wild, as part of Charter's new Disney deal
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
An investigation finds that Barstool Sports apparently controls 40+ “burner” X accounts to launder viral copyright-protected videos for its legitimate accounts  —  A Daily Beast investigation found more than forty content-swiping Twitter accounts apparently controlled by Barstool …
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:
The Internet Archive appeals a US judge's March 2023 decision that favors publishers in a copyright infringement case over the nonprofit's ebook lending program  —  As expected, the Internet Archive this week submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely-watched copyright case involving …
Jairo Bolledo / Rappler:
A Philippine trial court acquits Nobel laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and the outlet of tax evasion charges after a tax court cleared them in January 2023  —  MANILA, Philippines - A Pasig court acquitted Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa …
Financial Times:
How a decade-long effort to restructure loans extended to the Barclay family culminated in Lloyds Banking Group seizing control of the Telegraph newspaper group  —  How a decade-long effort to restructure loans extended to the reclusive businessmen's empire culminated in Lloyds Banking Group seizing control of a national newspaper
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
TikTok begins rolling out TikTok Shop to all US users, adding a home screen Shop button that sends users to a marketplace, and already has 200K+ sellers  —  The company is beginning to introduce TikTok Shop to all of the app's users in the U.S., hoping to add a major new revenue stream.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen's Gracenote unveils the FAST Program, a new initiative to help content companies get their FAST channels distributed by major streaming services  —  Unveiled at IBC in Amsterdam, it promises “better FAST content visibility, consumption and monetization.”
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Hunter Walk:
Why there has never been a better time to be an online creator: it might be harder than ever to earn $1M per year, but it has never been easier to make $50K  —  I judge the health of the creator economy by one single controversial factor: ease of access and probability of survival for its participants.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
MTV partners with Snapchat to let users vote for the VMA's Best New Artist category through Lenses  —  MTV has partnered with Snapchat to let users vote for a Video Music Awards category through Lenses.  The entertainment company is leveraging Snap's Camera Kit to integrate AR-based experiences into the award show.
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