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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney and Charter reach an agreement that will restore popular channels including ESPN and ABC to the cable operator's nearly 15M 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 Spectrum's TV Select Plus plan with ESPN+ and the TV Select plan with the upcoming ESPN streaming channel and Disney+ with ads — 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 / The Hollywood Reporter:
Interviews with Disney Entertainment co-chairman Dana Walden and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro about the Spectrum deal, how it expands ESPN+'s reach, and more — Walden, the co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, and Pitaro, the chairman of ESPN, talk about what the Spectrum deal means for their Disney divisions.
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Some Disney-owned channels like Freeform, Disney Junior, Disney XD, and Nat Geo Wild will no longer be carried by Spectrum as part of Charter's new Disney deal — Disney's channels had been blocked for Spectrum customers since Aug. 31, and will return just in time for ‘Monday Night Football’
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Roger Cheng / Cord Cutters News:
Disney offers Hulu + Live TV to new and eligible returning customers for $49.99/month for three months
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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 …
Max Tani / Semafor:
NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users: X is throttling posts with New York Times links, with “weekly average shares per article” down 75%+ from a July peak — The Scoop — X, Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users' access to The New York Times.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
The Associated Press says a defunct third-party-managed AP Stylebook site was hacked in July 2023 and the hacker is using the data for targeted phishing attacks — The Associated Press is warning of a data breach impacting AP Stylebook customers where the attackers used the stolen data to conduct targeted phishing attacks.
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Insider, @nolongerbennett and @castrotech
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
A profile of Walter Isaacson, who has written biographies of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and others, edited Time magazine in the 1990s, and was running CNN on 9/11 — It's a Saturday night in August, and Walter Isaacson is sitting in the back of Lilette, a restaurant on Magazine Street in his hometown of New Orleans, swizzling a Sazerac.
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
The Independent Florida Alligator, a student newspaper covering the University of Florida, rejected an ad about abortion pill access, in fear of a Florida law — An anti-abortion law made Florida's largest college paper go independent 50 years ago. And now that law is back to haunt the paper with serious free-speech restrictions.
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@corbinbolies and The Messenger
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
How Tucker Carlson, deprived of the prime-time platform of Fox News, has grown less relevant and more extreme, as he pushes even more conspiracy theories on X — Carlson, once seen as a Republican powerbroker and even a presidential candidate, has grown more extreme and less relevant
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK government launches a task force to crack down on the growing number of SLAPP legal cases by Russian oligarchs and others to intimidate journalists — Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer writes for Press Gazette about a new task force to tackle the rise of SLAPPs.
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The Independent, Reporters Without Borders, HoldtheFrontPage and The Times
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A deep dive into the NFL's attempts to expand beyond cable, and its YouTube partnership, including YouTube's $14B commitment in 2022 for Sunday Ticket rights — YouTube is now home to NFL games every Sunday. Will it bring more young people into the NFL? Or will it hasten the demise of linear TV networks?
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Front Office Sports, Dan Rayburn, Wall Street Journal and Sportico
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