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10:50 PM ET, January 29, 2024

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Bloomberg:
Sirius XM acquires rights to SmartLess, a podcast by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes, sources say for $100M+; Amazon previously paid $60M-$80M  —  - The popular interview program has spent three years at Amazon  — Actors Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes host the show
Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal:
Reed Hastings donates $1.1B worth of his Netflix shares, or ~40% of his stake, to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech founders  —  Reed Hastings donates to foundation with $10 billion in assets after gifts from Mark Zuckerberg and other tech founders
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Bloomberg starts providing AI-generated summaries of companies' earnings calls on its terminal; the company has more than 310,000 subscribers to its terminal  —  Bloomberg is now providing artificial intelligence summaries of company's earnings calls on its terminal.
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Memo: Channel 4 plans to merge commissioning departments, including TV drama and film, leave a London premises, and more, part of a five-year Fast Forward plan  —  Channel 4 is merging several commissioning departments including TV drama and film and leaving its Horseferry Road premises …
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Christopher Kuo / New York Times:
Ukraine's foreign ministry criticizes HBO for casting Milos Bikovic in The White Lotus' season three, saying without evidence the Serbian actor supports Russia  —  On social media, Ukraine's foreign ministry posted clips of the Serbian actor Milos Bikovic receiving a medal for cultural achievement from Vladimir Putin in 2018.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Mail Online executives on rolling out its new £4.99 per month Mail+ tier to all UK users, the £12.99 per month Mail+ Editions app, and more  —  Mail Online is building on a “great position of strength” from its “huge, loyal, engaged, direct audience” …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Plex raised new funding, larger than the $50M funding it raised in 2021, and expects to be profitable by the end of 2024  —  Media streamer Plex has raised new capital.  The company, which began as a media organization startup, has morphed over the years to become a one-stop shop for all your media …
Wall Street Journal:
How Penguin Random House started actively challenging the removal of books from US school libraries, including through an “Intellectual Freedom” task force  —  A fiery board meeting inspired Penguin Random House to actively challenge the removal of books from school libraries
Reuters:
UK sanctions Iranian officials who were found by an ITV report to be involved in plots to assassinate two TV presenters from Iran International in the UK  —  Britain on Monday imposed sanctions on Iranian officials it said were involved in threats to kill journalists on British soil …
Discussion: Deadline and Press Association
Katie Campione / Deadline:
Nielsen: Ted Lasso was the most-watched streaming original in 2023, at 16.9B minutes, despite Apple TV+'s small footprint, followed by Netflix's The Night Agent  —  Ted Lasso went out on a high note at Apple TV+.  —  According to Nielsen, the series was the most-watched streaming original last year …
 
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon expects Prime Video's average hourly ad load to be 2 to 3.5 minutes, below traditional TV and most streaming services, and to reach 159M monthly viewers
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
In response to the George Carlin estate's lawsuit, Dudesy says its YouTube video and podcast with an “AI” George Carlin were “created by two human beings”
Reuters:
German state broadcaster ARD says Israel was blocking two of its long-term Palestinian workers from leaving Gaza, citing security concerns that don't make sense
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
A look at the US Copyright Office, which is in the spotlight as it plans to release three key reports in 2024 revealing its position on copyright law and AI
Reuters:
Report: Zee Media founder Subhash Chandra says his family plans to eventually raise its stake in Zee from 4% to 26% after a merger with Sony India collapsed
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The Intercept:
Sources: the NYT pulled a The Daily episode about sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, after an internal debate on the strength of its reporting
 

 
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg:
A look at India's quick food delivery market as Swiggy and Zomato enter the sector; report: online food delivery market in India to reach $15B by March 2029
 
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