Mediagazer: In its Q3 earnings call, Comcast CEO Mike Cavanagh says the company is weighing spinning off its cable networks and open to “partnerships in streaming” (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

5:10 PM ET, October 31, 2024

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:

In its Q3 earnings call, Comcast CEO Mike Cavanagh says the company is weighing spinning off its cable networks and open to “partnerships in streaming” — Comcast President Mike Cavanagh delivered an eye-opening update to investors on this morning's third-quarter earnings call …

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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast reports Peacock's Q3 losses fell to $436M, down from $565M in Q3 2023, revenue rose 82% YoY to $1.5B, and subscribers rose 3M from June to 36M

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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Comcast reports Q3 net income down 10% YoY to $3.63B and revenue up 6.5% YoY to $32.07B; revenue for media, mainly composed of NBCU, rose 37% YoY to $8.23B

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google — The new option will let the chatbot's users search for timely information much as they would on the web.

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Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
OpenAI says ChatGPT Search draws on articles from the WSJ and others it has deals with, and will direct election-related queries to sources like AP and Reuters

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Kali Hays / Fortune:

Internal memo: Block CEO Jack Dorsey says Tidal is in for another mass layoff; insiders say as many as 100 people could be laid off, or ~25% of Tidal's staff — Block CEO and founder Jack Dorsey wants streaming music app Tidal to operate like a startup again - and that means layoffs

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John O'Nolan:

Ghost's CEO details the organization's governance structure and says the open-source CMS generates ~$7.5M in annual revenue and has been profitable for 12 years — Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license.

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ProPublica:

An investigation finds eight deceptive operations on Meta's platforms that collectively controlled 340+ Pages and placed 160K ads to collect users' information — Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism — Deceptive Political Ads: Eight deceptive advertising networks …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est. — Apple missed Wall Street earnings forecasts, as smartphone revenue — including sales of its new AI-enabled iPhone 16 …

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Nico Grant / New York Times:

Media Matters: from May to August 2024, the top 30 conservative YouTube channels posted 286 videos containing US election misinformation, racking up 47M+ views — In June 2023, YouTube decided to stop fighting the most persistent strain of election misinformation in the United States …

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