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4:45 PM ET, September 12, 2023

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Tim Baysinger / Axios:
Endeavor combines the WWE with UFC to form TKO Group, and plans to keep the two separate in US rights deals but leverage them together for global rights deals  —  - Tim Baysinger, author of Axios Pro: Media Deals  —  Endeavor plans to keep UFC and WWE separate in U.S. rights deals …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Sporting News raised $15M led by Playtech, valuing the site in the “eight figures”; TSN was founded as a newspaper in 1886 and became digital-only in 2012  —  The Sporting News, a digital sports news site, has raised $15 million in a growth round led by Playtech, a London-based …
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
TikTok begins rolling out TikTok Shop to all US users, adding a button to the app's home screen 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.
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 …
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.”
Discussion: Media Play News and MediaPost
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
Rachel Graf / The Information:
New York Times:
Ex-NFL Network reporter Jim Trotter sues the NFL for racial discrimination, alleging his contract wasn't renewed after he called out the NFL's lack of diversity  —  Jim Trotter said his contract with the NFL Network was not renewed after he challenged Commissioner Roger Goodell and other executives …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Economist plans to introduce Economist Podcasts+, a tier that in mid-October will offer exclusive access to all of the Economist's podcasts for $4.90/month  —  The Economist plans to introduce a new subscription tier this Thursday called Economist Podcasts+ for $4.90 monthly, the Economist president Bob Cohn told Axios.
Discussion: @jackmarshall
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
MTV partners with Snapchat to let users vote for the Video Music Awards' Best New Artist category through a special Lens, once the three finalists are decided  —  MTV has partnered with Snapchat to let users vote for a Video Music Awards category through Lenses.
Discussion: @senoj.bsky.social and MediaPost
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.
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.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Interviews with Disney Entertainment co-chairman Dana Walden and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro about the Charter deal, how Spectrum expands ESPN+'s reach, and more
 
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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
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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
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