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Together, the NBA's deals with Disney's ESPN and Comcast's NBC are expected to generate $76B over 11 years, with Amazon paying about $1.8B annually — The National Basketball Association announced new long-term TV contract with Amazon.com Inc., spurning a last minute effort by Warner Bros. Discovery Inc …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The NBA declines WBD's effort to join the set of rights packages built for Amazon, Disney, and NBCUniversal, saying WBD's proposal did not match Amazon's offer — The company had proposed to match Amazon's $1.8 billion per year bid for NBA games. … “Warner Bros. Discovery's most recent proposal …
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
The WNBA's deal with Disney, NBC, and Amazon, which is reportedly worth ~$200M/season, includes more national telecasts and an increased global reach — The three companies, which also will carry the men's NBA, will offer more national telecasts and an increased global reach for the league.
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New York Times:
Doc: Rupert Murdoch wants to change his family trust to ensure Lachlan Murdoch stays in charge of the media empire; three other siblings are fighting the move — Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family's irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft says Bing stopped crawling Reddit after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 — Reddit updated its robots.txt file prohibiting Bing and some other search engines from crawling its site. — Chat with SearchBot — Reddit has updated its robots.txt file …
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit — DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
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John Otis / Washington Post:
Lewis Lapham, the editor who revived Harper's magazine in the 1980s by publishing writers including David Foster Wallace and Barbara Ehrenreich, dies at 89 — He turned Harper's into what he called a “theater of ideas,” promoting emerging voices including David Foster Wallace, Christopher Hitchens and Fareed Zakaria.
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Some of News Corp's most experienced journalists in Australia, including Sue Dunlevy, have been made redundant, as the outlet cuts its national reporting team — Murdoch's Australian arm has quietly slashed tens of millions of dollars in costs to counter a slow advertising market and loss of revenue from Meta deal
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Variety:
A Prime Video India-commissioned report finds that India is attracting ~$6B per year in local content investments, or $4 per head vs. $370 per head in the US — Indian streaming series such as Netflix's “Heeramandi,” Prime Video's “Mirzapur” or Disney+ Hotstar's “Bad Cop,” could soon be more influential than Bollywood.
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Chloe Meley / Bloomberg:
Informa agrees to buy Ascential, the owner of the Cannes Lions and Money20/20 conferences, for ~£1.2B in cash, or £5.68/share, a 53% premium on Monday's close — Informa Plc has agreed to buy Ascential Plc, the owner of the Money20/20 and Cannes Lions conferences …
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Journalists at Nine newspapers Sydney Morning Herald and the Age plan to strike during Olympics if their demands, including a higher pay rise, aren't met — Reporters will walk off job from Friday - affecting Paris Games coverage - unless union demands are met during Wednesday afternoon meeting
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Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review
Adam B. Vary / Variety:
San Diego's Comic-Con, from July 25-July 28, is expected to draw more than 130,000, after back-to-back pandemic cancellations and the SAG-AFTRA strike — Last year, the organizers of San Diego Comic- Con were eager to put on their annual event sans pandemic cancellations or COVID protocols …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
MLB launches a streaming service for MLB Network in the US for $5.99/month, no cable TV subscription required; live games will be subject to local blackouts — Major League Baseball has a new way to get fans to pay to catch the streaming action of America's pastime.
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