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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Prince Harry reaches a settlement with Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers over allegedly gathering unlawful information, an abrupt end to the London trial — Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers offered Harry an “unequivocal apology” for “unlawful” activities at The Sun and agreed to pay substantial damages.
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
Settlement: Murdoch's NGN apologizes to Prince Harry over “unlawful” phone hacking by The Sun and “extensive coverage and serious intrusion on his private life” — In the past few minutes, the BBC reported NGN apologizing for phone hacking, and the impact this had on Harry …
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Chris Ship / @chrisshipitv:
Source: Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers agreed to pay Prince Harry £10M+ in damages as part of the settlement — Just been told News Group Newspapers have paid Prince Harry and EIGHT figure sum in damages.
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Nielsen: Trump's inauguration drew an average of 24.59M viewers on 15 networks from 10:30am ET to 7pm ET, down from 33.76M in 2021 and 30.64M in 2017 — According to Nielsen, the inauguration drew 24.59 million viewers, compared to 33.76 million for Biden's 2021 inauguration and 30.64 million for Trump's first in 2021.
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rose from $15.49 to $17.99 and standard with ads jumped a dollar to $7.99 — The company said those results were buoyed by programming in recent months that exceeded internal expectations.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subscribers, adding 18.9M subscribers, more than double analysts' estimates; NFLX jumps 14%+
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Drew Lerner / Awful Announcing:
Nielsen: Netflix captured 8.5% of all US streaming viewership in December 2024, its highest share since July 2023, in part due to NFL games; YouTube had 11.1%
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube adds experimental features for Premium users, including higher audio bitrate of up to 256kbps for music videos and faster playback on mobile — YouTube said Wednesday that it is adding new experimental features for Premium users, including high-quality audio, faster playback speed option on mobile …
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Daniel Tencer / Music Business Worldwide:
Music AI, the AI startup behind Moises music creation service, raised a $40M Series A led by monashees and Connect Ventures, a partnership between CAA and NEA — Music AI, the “AI-first” company behind the increasingly popular Moises music creation platform, has announced it has raised USD $40 million in a Series A funding round.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's ITV News appoints Channel 4 News executive Laura Wilshaw as editor, succeeding Andrew Dagnell, who will become director of news and current affairs — Laura Wilshaw has been appointed as ITV News editor, succeeding Andrew Dagnell who is becoming ITV's director of news and current affairs.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Adobe makes an additional $5M commitment to support underrepresented film and TV creators and filmmakers, on top of its $6M pledge in 2024 — Company also donating $1 million toward L.A. wildfire relief — Software giant Adobe is making an additional $5 million commitment …
Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter:
Annapurna Interactive hires Leanne Loombe, who previously oversaw Netflix's second- and third-party game development and publishing, as its head of games — Loombe joins the Megan Ellison outfit from Netflix's gaming division. … Loombe has been named executive vice president, head of games …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Ankler launches Like & Subscribe, a trade publication on the creator economy, as a weekly Substack newsletter for $129/year with plans for podcasts and more — - Like & Subscribe will launch as a weekly newsletter, and will eventually be accompanied by a podcast, events, and subscriber engagement features.
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
MrBeast joins a US investor group led by Employer.com founder Jesse Tinsley that made an all-cash bid to acquire TikTok US; several groups have shown interest — - YouTube star is part of investor group run by Jesse Tinsley — TikTok has less than three months to sell or face a US ban
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Donald Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give the US government 50% ownership
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Alex Cranz / Wired:
Broadcast TV, one of the few remaining free sources of news and entertainment, is slowly dying, and Trump's political threats add to the industry's uncertainty — The slow fade of broadcast television—one of the few remaining free sources of news and entertainment—is about to accelerate …
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Nielsen now counts Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu as a single entity called Disney Streaming in its The Gauge TV usage reports — Nielsen will soon count three streaming services owned or operated by the Walt Disney Company as one collective unit in future reports on total time spent with television each month …
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