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5:20 AM ET, January 2, 2025

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Reuters:
The Palestinian Authority suspends the broadcast of Al Jazeera TV temporarily over “inciting material and reports that were deceiving and stirring strife”  —  The Palestinian Authority suspended the broadcast of Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV temporarily over “inciting material,” official news agency WAFA reported on Wednesday.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Email: CNBC will seek $15/month for its streamer CNBC+; a pro tier will be $300/year, or $35/month; a bundle with Jim Cramer investment club will be $600/year  —  CNBC will seek $14.99 a month, or $99.99 a year, for access to a new targeted streaming service called CNBC+ that executives …
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Justin Baldoni sues The New York Times for $250M over its Blake Lively story, which accused him of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us and more  —  On June 2, 2023, Blake Lively began a text exchange with her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni that blamed …
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TMZ.com:
Blake Lively files a lawsuit in a New York federal court against Justin Baldoni and others, claiming mental pain and anguish, emotional distress, and lost wages
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Altice USA customers lose access to MSG Networks due to a carriage dispute over fees between the cable TV operator and James Dolan's RSN  —  Altice USA customers lost access to MSG Networks early Wednesday due to a carriage dispute between the cable TV operator and James Dolan's regional sports channels.
Duke University School of Law:
Books, movies, and music published in 1929, including William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and sound recordings from 1924 enter the US public domain  —  On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally  —  Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data.
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Atlantic plans to hire ~12 journalists, including from WaPo, to bolster its political coverage under Trump; source: it added ~100K subscribers since March  —  The magazine is recruiting from a crosstown rival, The Washington Post, to bolster its political staff.
John Herrman / New York Magazine:
Meta saying it expects AI characters to populate its apps is its friendly rebrand of an effective but alienating effort to automate social interactions  —  Why AI friends are coming to Facebook and Instagram.  —  Among Meta's many resolutions for the new year — making augmented reality …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Pornhub now blocks users in 17 US states, including almost all of the South, after blocking Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina due to age verification laws  —  Almost two years ago, Louisiana passed a law that started a wave that's since spread across the entire U.S. south …
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that imitated legitimate news outlets  —  The Treasury Department said Iran and Russia sought to divide Americans through targeted disinformation campaigns in the 2024 elections.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
PGA Tour unveils PGA Tour Studios in Florida, and plans to launch a World Feed, curated exclusively for international media partners and their viewers  —  Executives at PGA Tour say they are getting ready for a new era in sports when leagues will need to exercise significantly more control …
Discussion: @bristei.bsky.social and Sportico
Colin Mann / Advanced Television:
BPI: recorded music consumption in the UK rose 9.7% YoY to 200.5M albums in 2024, driven by an 11% rise in streaming, with 199.6B audio streams accumulated  —  2024 proved another milestone year for UK recorded music, with BPI analysis based on Official Charts data revealing new heights for streaming …
 
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Bloomberg:
Broadcast networks are seeking higher fees from their local affiliates, often citing the rising cost of sports rights; CBS and Fox have been the most aggressive
Bloomberg:
Sources: Mobvista explores selling mobile ad platform Mintegral after getting interest from buyers like Bain Capital; Mobvista stock in HK surged ~190% in 2024
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Hanna Park / CNN:
Aaron Brown, the CNN anchor who gained prominence for his coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and his role in shaping CNN's evening news format, died Sunday at 76
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix was the winner among media stocks in 2024, up 92%; Fox was up 64%, Disney was up 22%, WBD was down 10%, Roku was down 16%, and Paramount was down 28%
Discussion: Deadline and @tvgrimreaper
Inside Radio:
Salem agrees to sell its seven contemporary Christian radio stations to Educational Media Foundation for $80M and repays all $159.4M of its long-term debt
Callum Parke / London Evening Standard:
UK High Court documents show hedge fund manager Crispin Odey is seeking at least £79M from the Financial Times in libel damages over sexual assault allegations
Discussion: The Times
 

 
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Sources: Tim Cook will personally donate $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural committee in the spirit of unity; Apple is not expected to donate

Max Woolf / Max Woolf's Blog:
In a test, asking Claude 3.5 Sonnet to “write better code” iteratively improved the code's features and speed, but more aggressive prompt engineering added bugs

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Samsung and Google plan to bring Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source 3D audio standard, to some YouTube videos later this year on Samsung's 2025 TVs and soundbars
 
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