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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Byron Allen, one of the many parties trying to acquire ABC from Disney, says Disney's internal deliberations are the main factor delaying a formal sale process — - ‘May December’ Writer Samy Burch Finally Boards Promo Train Post-Strike At New York Film Festival; Director Todd Haynes …
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Andre Rhoden-Paul / BBC:
Ofcom launches an investigation into the Dan Wootton Tonight show on GB News after Laurence Fox insulted journalist Ava Evans, sparking 7,300 complaints — Media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into the Dan Wootton Tonight show on GB News after a sexism row sparked 7,300 complaints.
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Naomi Clarke / The Independent:
GB News presenter Calvin Robinson says the broadcaster suspended him for defending Dan Wootton online, making him the channel's third suspended presenter
GB News presenter Calvin Robinson says the broadcaster suspended him for defending Dan Wootton online, making him the channel's third suspended presenter
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Financial Times:
French billionaire Xavier Niel plans to put his 40%+ stake of Le Monde in a foundation in 2023 and says he wants the newsroom “to be as independent as possible” — Billionaire to place shares bought from Czech tycoon Daniel Křetínský in foundation by year end
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: Axel Springer had notified Goldman Sachs of its desire to participate in a forthcoming auction for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers — The publisher of Bild and owner of the Politico website has registered its interest in bidding for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers, Sky News can reveal.
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Wall Street Journal:
The WGA's pact with studios and streamers represents a formal end to “peak TV”, a decade that saw an explosion of programming for viewers and jobs in Hollywood — The end of the writers' strike marks a new era. Studios and streamers are likely to order fewer TV shows.
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Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Source: Diamond Sports is seeking to cut the broadcast fees it pays to the NHL and NBA by up to 20%; Diamond pays NBA teams about $600M a year — Bankrupt broadcaster Diamond Sports, the nation's largest regional sports network, has made a take-it-or-leave-it offer to cut rights fees …
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Letterboxd's founders sell a majority stake to Canadian company Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+ — Two designers from New Zealand built a wildly popular social network for movie buffs. Now, they're cashing in (and sticking around for the sequel).
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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
A history of Vine's failure to build relationships with its top creators, who Vine leadership resented for gaming the app's ranking algorithm and their humor — The wildly popular video app's contentious relationship with its own power users offers a cautionary tale for social platforms
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
One of India's largest music labels Saregama acquires a 51.82% stake in Pocket Aces, which produces short-form video content aimed at young Indians, for ~$20M — Saregama has acquired a 51.82% stake in the digital entertainment startup Pocket Aces as the oldest Indian music label makes a deeper push into videos.
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Ed Fancher, one of the founders of the alternative weekly newspaper The Village Voice and its publisher for 19 years, died on September 27 at age 100 — A psychologist, he started the alternative weekly with Dan Wolf and Norman Mailer in 1955. “We were crazy enough to think it would succeed,” he said.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
FilmRise acquires the worldwide digital media rights to 1,200+ hours of BuzzFeed Studios' library of content, including past episodes of Hot Ones and Worth It — Older episodes of Sean Evans' “Hot Ones,” the hit YouTube series in which celebs try to ingest increasingly spicy buffalo wings, has a new home.
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Amanda Zamora / The 19th:
Amanda Zamora says she will step down as publisher of The 19th at the end of 2023 and continue working on The 19th News Network in an advisory director capacity — After more than four and a half years with The 19th, Amanda Zamora will step down as publisher at the end of this year.
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