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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
YouTube channel Dude Perfect hires former NBA executive Andrew Yaffe as CEO; Yaffe had been the NBA's head of social, digital, and original content — - Ex-NBA executive Andrew Yaffe to lead digital media company — The channel has more than 60 million followers on YouTube
Discussion:
Variety, Chad Coleman on LinkedIn, Andrew Yaffe on LinkedIn, @danprimack, The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter
Joe Otterson / Variety:
WBD and All Elite Wrestling sign a multiyear deal, sources say worth $150M+ per year; AEW shows remain on TBS and TNT and stream live on Max in the US in 2025 — All Elite Wrestling (AEW) has officially signed a new multi-year multimedia rights deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Awful Announcing, The Wrap, Bloomberg, New York Post, The Verge, UPROXX, All Elite Wrestling, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline and POST Wrestling
Evan Drellich / New York Times:
Diamond Sports Group, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, says in 2025 it will stop carrying all but one of the 12 MLB teams it now televises — Embattled broadcaster Diamond Sports Group says in 2025 it will stop carrying all but one of the 12 MLB teams it now televises …
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CNBC, TVNewsCheck, Awful Announcing, KSTP-TV, The Desk, Sportico, Front Office Sports, Orange County Register, The Streamable, @vtuss, @jluckhaupt.bsky.social, Streaming Better, Cord Cutters News, @crupicrupicrupi, @matthewkeyslive, @2xaught7.bsky.social, @jasoncollette.bsky.social and Radio & Television …
Josh Ocampo / New York Times:
Q&A with The New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin about building relationships with sources, challenges of the media beat, social media, and more — To report on the business of media, the journalist Ben Mullin says he is “endlessly curious” about the people populating his own industry.
Discussion:
@benmullin and @semaforcomms
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Memo: Disney's ABC News and local TV stations cut staff; source: about 75 staffers will be let go, split about evenly between national news and the TV stations — Employees were notified Wednesday of the staff reductions, according to a person familiar with the matter …
Discussion:
Adweek, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Post, @jbflint, The Desk, The Wrap, Bloomberg, TVNewsCheck and Deadline
Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
Sources: ad-tech startup Hudson MX, controlled by UK holding company Ascential, discontinues operations; Ascential had been trying to find a buyer for Hudson MX — Editor's Note: An initial version of this story incorrectly reported that Comcast's FreeWheel division had acquired certain assets …
Katie Drummond / Wired:
Q&A with Bobbi Althoff about The Really Good Podcast, her rise to fame as part of “Mommy TikTok”, chaos after her Drake interview, brand deals, and more — From Mommy TikTok to that Drake interview and beyond, the podcast host is proof you can brute-force your way to online fame …
Discussion:
WIRED on LinkedIn, Simon Owens on LinkedIn, Vanity Fair, @laurengoode@threads.net and @katiedrumm
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch unveils a redesign with a better UI, fresh color palette, more modern aesthetic, and new ways to show breaking news, after its last redesign in 2018 — Sometimes, you have to start from scratch to make something amazing. Sometimes, you already have most of the ingredients …
Discussion:
@zeffmax
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Q&A with Matthew Yglesias about leaving Vox, launching his own Substack, and more; Yglesias says Slow Boring has ~18,000 subscribers paying ~$80 per year — - Matthew Yglesias, a prolific political writer, co-founded Vox in 2014. Six years later, he left to run his own Substack newsletter.
Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times launches its biggest app overhaul since 2008, adding personalized recommendations and content from The Athletic, The Wirecutter, and others — It's the first major redesign since the app launched in 2008. — I've had the New York Times app on my phone for pretty …
Discussion:
The Hollywood Reporter, @michaelsocolow, @duncanwc and Fast Company
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Amazon plans to increase the number of ads on Prime Video in 2025 after not seeing a sharp drop in subscribers since adding advertisements in January 2024 — Ecommerce group attempting to win over more brands as it steps up push into ad-funded streaming services in 2025
Discussion:
The Information, Quartz, Digiday, Engadget, Deadline, The Media Leader and @raydouglasuk, more at Techmeme »
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Livestream marketplace Whatnot says its GMV passed $2B+ in 2024 and its top 500 sellers each sold $1M+ on the platform; 66% of its sellers earn $10K+ per month — Whatnot, the livestream marketplace platform for trading card collectors and sneakerheads alike, is offering a bit of positive news …
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