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Sources: Greek media company Antenna Group is in early talks to acquire Time from Marc Benioff, who bought the magazine in 2018 for $180M — The Greek media company Antenna Group is in talks to acquire Time Inc. from Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff, according to people familiar with the matter.
Athena Stavrou / The Independent:
More than 230 media industry professionals, including anonymous BBC staff, sign a letter accusing the BBC of bias favoring Israel in coverage of Gaza — Exclusive: More than 230 media industry professionals sign letter sent to BBC director general Tim Davie — Your support helps us to tell the story
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt quits as a contributing columnist at WaPo, after abruptly leaving a Post live video event hosted by Jonathan Capehart — Hugh Hewitt has quit as a contributing columnist to The Washington Post, after storming out of a Post Live event on Friday morning …
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April Rubin / Axios:
Trump's campaign files an FEC complaint claiming WaPo illegally contributed to Harris by running digital ads promoting its critical news coverage of Trump — - Trump's team said in its complaint that an ad campaign highlighting the Post's critical coverage of the former president amounted to …
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Trump sues CBS News in a Texas court, claiming CBS engaged in election interference “through malicious, deceptive” editing of its 60 Minutes Harris interview
Trump sues CBS News in a Texas court, claiming CBS engaged in election interference “through malicious, deceptive” editing of its 60 Minutes Harris interview
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Disney forms the Office of Technology Enablement to coordinate its use of emerging technologies such as AI and mixed reality, to be led by CTO Jamie Voris — Walt Disney (DIS.N) is forming a new group to coordinate the company's use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality …
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How Trump could weaponize the FCC against the media in a second term, including to punish broadcasters that air unfavorable coverage — The somewhat obscure federal agency could be used to punish broadcasters that air unfavorable coverage as part of Trump's quest to rein in independent media.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The world's biggest digital ad companies saw significant sales growth in Q3, due to US political ad revenue, AI-enhanced ad tools, and healthy consumer spending — - Google's advertising revenue jumped more than 10% year-over-year, thanks in part to election-related ad spend, especially on YouTube …
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Alex Vadukul / New York Times:
New York art-house movie theater Metrograph plans to launch a biannual print film magazine of the same name in December — A throwback publication courts cinephiles with stories featuring Ari Aster, Maggie Cheung, Daniel Clowes, Clint Eastwood and Ann Hui.
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Jack Neff / Ad Age:
A survey of US advertisers and agencies: 49% said alternative currencies were just as effective as Nielsen and 36% said they were more effective than Nielsen — Nielsen remains dominant, but a growing number of advertisers have tried alternatives and most find them equal or better
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Fubo reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $386.2M, a net loss of $54.7M, down from $84.4M in Q3 2023, and 1.6M subscribers in North America, up 9% YoY — Revenue in the period ended September 30 increased 20% over the same frame a year ago to reach $386.2 million. Losses narrowed to 17 cents a share from 29 cents a year ago.
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Troveo, which helps content owners and digital rights managers license content to AI companies but keep ownership rights, launches with $4.5M in seed funding — The platform, Troveo, launches with $4.5 million in seed funding and says it has “deals in place with prominent AI companies to pay …
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Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
Charter says some cable plans will have access to ad-supported versions of Max, Disney+, Peacock, ESPN+, and other streamers at no extra cost by early 2025 — TV Select customers will be able to watch the ad-supported versions of Max, Disney+, Peacock Premium, Paramount+ and more at no additional cost
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