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3:40 PM ET, January 30, 2025

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New York Times:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told CEOs of NPR and PBS that he had ordered a probe into whether member stations are airing commercial ads when they air sponsorships  —  Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said the inquiry could help Congress decide whether to continue funding local stations.
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Comcast reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $31.92B and media revenue, including its TV networks, up 3.5% to $7.22B; Comcast lost 311K cable TV customers  —  Comcast topped Wall Street's fourth-quarter estimates on Thursday as revenue from the company's broadband business gave it a boost despite losing customers.
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast reports Peacock's Q4 losses fell to $372M from an $825M loss in Q4 2023 and revenue rose 28% YoY to $1.3B; subscribers stood at 36M, unchanged from Q3
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon is ramping up ad spending on X, as companies re-evaluate their stances in a changing political climate; source: Apple considers a return to X  —  Shift occurs after many brands cut advertising on the platform over hate-speech concerns; Apple considers a return to site
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon hikes prices of Amazon Music Unlimited for Prime and non-Prime members by $1 to $10.99 and $11.99 per month, and Unlimited Family Plan by $3 to $19.99  —  The higher prices come just a few months after market leader Spotify adjusted subscription prices of its own.
Yasmin Rufo / BBC:
The BBC apologizes to staff after an internal review found employees felt unable to raise concerns about Russell Brand's misconduct during his tenure at BBC  —  The BBC has apologised to staff who felt they could not speak up with concerns about Russell Brand's behaviour because he was seen as …
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Court filing: Elon Musk, seeking to dismiss Don Lemon's lawsuit, blames an “invasive and charged interview” for canceling Lemon's $1.5M partnership with X  —  - Former CNN star is suing Musk over failed $1.5 million deal  — X owner says journalist's interview led to ‘sour’ relationship
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
The Authors Guild launches a project for writers to certify their books as human-authored and not AI generated, initially for members and single-author books  —  Books not created by AI will be listed in a US Authors Guild database that anyone can access.  —  Books not created by AI …
Helen Corbett / The Independent:
A Russian court issues an arrest warrant for Jerome Starkey, defense editor at the UK's Sun, for entering Russia from Ukraine; Downing Street condemns the move  —  The Kursk regional court accused Jerome Starkey of illegally crossing the border into Russia.  —  Your support helps us to tell the story
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Lily Meier / Bloomberg:
How Barnes & Noble made an unlikely comeback due to BookTok's viral book recommendations driving up sales, which have risen by “mid-single digits” since 2021
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Threads adds a dedicated media tab globally for photos and video, days after X and Bluesky added video tabs, and will let users tag people in photos
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NewsGuard: with news-related prompts, DeepSeek's chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and provided non-answers 53% of the time, giving an 83% fail rate
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Wall Street Journal:
Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot
Meta Investor Relations:
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $48.4B, net income up 49% YoY to $20.8B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.35B on average for December 2024