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Jed Rosenzweig / LateNighter:
Paramount has shut down its Comedy Central website, which held The Daily Show clips and the full run of The Colbert Report, after its shutdown of MTV News' site — First on LateNighter: One of the richest repositories of late-night videos is no longer. — ComedyCentral.com had been home …
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms in the First Amendment case of Murthy v. Missouri — The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to impose limits on the way President Joe Biden's administration may communicate …
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
NBCU says an AI-generated voice of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on its streamer Peacock — Legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on Peacock — well, an AI-generated Al Michaels voice will.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Dish offers customers who sign up for a two-year contract a new bundle with Netflix's ad-supported tier for free, or its ad-free tiers at a $7/month discount — The satellite TV company is giving its customers access to Netflix's ad-supported tier at no cost, or its ad-free tiers at a discount.
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Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co:
A look at what has happened to the US box office since 2000 and how the pandemic accelerated the decline in per capita theatrical admissions by roughly 15 years — Over the last six months, there has been a lot of talk about the future of theatrical exhibition ("going to the movies") …
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@ballmatthew, @royprice and @loudmouthjulia
Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:
The Oaklandside's publisher, Cityside, launches Richmondside in Richmond, CA, a town where the top employer, Chevron, owns the primary news source — Last month, I talked to Floodlight's Miranda Green and NPR's David Folkenflik about how they teamed up to investigate a news site owned by Chevron.
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@davidfolkenflik, @tigerbeat and @khulacrichmond
Adam Jacobson / Radio & Television Business Report:
Audacy promotes Jeff Sottolano to chief programming officer from EVP and head of programming; he'll be responsible for content on radio stations and podcasts — Thanks to a new deal that sees him agreeing to a multi-year contract extension, the individual who has served as Executive Vice President …
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Inside Radio, Inside Radio and RADIO ONLINE
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6% — WATCH NOW — It's been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet's YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn't really know what to do with it.
Jon Allsop / Vanity Fair:
Will Lewis should be held accountable as a powerful executive and not simply seen through a parochial US lens that views UK journalists as having lax ethics — Will Lewis's ethical imbroglio has led to caricatures of British editors. But the Washington Post publisher should be held accountable …
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NewsGuild of New York:
Members of The NewsGuild of New York vote 1,229 to 599 to make a temporary dues rate of 1.75% permanent; the rate had been set to expire on September 30, 2024 — NEW YORK - In a resounding display of solidarity and as an investment in the future of their union, members of The NewsGuild …
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@nyguild and @susandecarava
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, and other AI training datasets form the Dataset Providers Alliance to advocate for “ethical data sourcing” — OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems …
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Andy Roberts / GolfMagic:
Caffeine TV, a streaming platform that has been carrying LIV Golf's content, announces it is shutting down due to a lack of profitability — LIV Golf's free streaming provider, Caffeine TV, has ended its service with immediate effect. — LIV Golf has been dealt a hammer blow …
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