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11:40 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 …
Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
The Bulwark had its first profitable year in 2024, and its Substack, which has 76K paid subscribers, is gaining 700 to 1,000 paid subscribers every day or two  —  The explosive success of The Bulwark.  —  It was the day after Donald Trump's inauguration, and Tim Miller was struggling …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The British Film Institute: UK broadcasters slashed their spending on high-end TV shows to the lowest level since 2015, while US streamers increased spending  —  Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky also among UK broadcasters making cuts as Netflix, Disney and Amazon pile on pressure
Discussion: WORLD SCREEN and Deadline
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.
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: Disney lowers its content spending estimate, including for sports rights, for FY 2025 by $1B to ~$23B; for FY 2024, Disney's content spend was $23.4B  —  As Wall Street analysts parse its earnings beat and stagnate streaming subscriber growth, the company revises its spending expectation …
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Spotify and Warner Music sign a multi-year deal that covers recorded music and music publishing and “delivers new benefits for artists, songwriters, and fans”  —  “This major agreement delivers new benefits for artists, songwriters, and fans, while unlocking further collaboration that expands the music ecosystem.”
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Warner Music buys a controlling stake in Tempo Music, which owns the song rights of Bruno Mars, Adele, and more; a source says the deal values Tempo at $450M  —  - Warner is acquiring a controlling stake in Tempo Music  — Tempo owns all or parts of songs by many top hitmakers
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI is expected to air its first TV ad during Sunday's Super Bowl; MediaRadar: AI companies spent $332M on ads in 2024, over double their 2023 spend  —  The TV spot marks the artificial-intelligence company's biggest foray into consumer advertising to date
 
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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
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”
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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
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”
Discussion: Fox News and TVNewsCheck
404 Media:
Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while the group moves from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President, which is not subject to FOIA
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
 

 
From Techmeme:

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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