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8:45 AM ET, February 6, 2025

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr releases the CBS Harris transcript and seeks comment on a complaint about a CBS station; commissioner Anna Gomez calls the moves reckless  —  The complete interview, which is at the center of a lawsuit filed by President Trump, shows that “60 Minutes” aired a concise version of Ms. Harris's answer on Israel.
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CBS News:
60 Minutes publishes transcripts and video from its interview with VP Kamala Harris that the FCC requested, as the agency reviews the Paramount-Skydance merger  —  We are posting the same transcripts and videos of our interview with Vice President Kamala Harris that we provided to the FCC.
Axios:
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, answering claims that USAID spent millions on Politico Pro, says DOGE will cancel $8M in Politico subscriptions  —  - Right-wing personalities are using USAspending.gov to dig up more payments from the government to media organizations …
Ernie Smith / Tedium:
WBD releases more than 30 movies on YouTube for free across five channels over the past month, apparently without DRM; some are gems, some are stinkers  —  A major studio is apparently treating YouTube as a place to drop some of its archive films that have lost their cinematic luster.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Comcast adds Dolby Atmos to Dolby Vision for the Super Bowl, available to Xfinity TV customers as part of its Enhanced 4K offerings  —  It could make the on-field action sound more immersive.  Either way, it's worth watching the game in HDR if you can.  —  It could make the on-field action sound more immersive.
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
China's “mini-drama” industry grew 35% YoY to ~$6.91B in 2024, surpassing the country's box office and forcing iQiyi and Tencent to embrace short-form dramas  —  - New kind of web series tell stories in ultra-brief episodes  — Chinese companies are now exporting mini dramas to the US
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Burnie Burns, a co-founder of online video pioneer Rooster Teeth, says his company, Box Canyon Productions, acquired the Rooster Teeth brand and assets from WBD  —  “I am excited at the challenge of bringing Rooster Teeth back to its roots,” Burns said in a statement.
Kyle Buchanan / New York Times:
How online Oscar scandals have caught awards strategists who once influenced via whisper campaigns flat-footed, as Netflix struggles to deal with Emilia Pérez  —  As Karla Sofía Gascón's resurfaced social media posts upend the campaign for the year's most-nominated film, what happens now?
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
The NYT says it spent $10.8M on costs associated with generative AI litigation in 2024, one of the few outlets that can afford to engage in yearslong litigation  —  The paper, buoyed by its 11 million-plus paid subscribers, is one of the few news outlets that can afford to engage in yearslong litigation with Big Tech.
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Bob Iger says an ESPN streaming service will have “some form of betting and fantasy and a high degree of customization” at its fall 2025 launch  —  Disney wants to make ESPN's content as accessible as possible.  —  Disney wants to make ESPN's content as accessible as possible.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
In Q1, Disney+ lost a net 700,000 customers worldwide while Hulu gained 1.6M, and operating income hit $312M, up from a $224M loss in Q1 2024, driven by Moana 2
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sonos is laying off about 200 employees, or 12% of its staff, as it reorganizes to make its product teams “flatter, smaller, and more focused”
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The foreperson of the Florida jury that found CNN defamed a US Navy veteran says she would've awarded ~$100M, not $5M, and the “public is fed up with fake news”
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Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while it moves from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President, which is not subject to FOIA
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Lara Trump will begin hosting a weekend show on Fox News on Feb. 22; there is no precedent for a sitting president's relative to host a show on a major channel
Liam Reilly / CNN:
As Trump and Elon Musk remake the federal government, traffic surges at Government Executive and other small outlets that specialize in the federal workforce
 

 
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Kinling Lo / Rest of World:
A look at the adoption of DeepSeek across China, as Chinese automakers, smartphone sellers, and others rush to build services on top of the homegrown AI model

Steven Levy / Wired:
Meta's effort to neutralize Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, filled with gossipy anecdotes, feels less about defending its reputation than a need to punish a defector

Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
21Shares plans to liquidate two actively managed bitcoin and ether futures ETFs, following $1.66B in outflows from US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs this month
 
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