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12:45 PM ET, February 11, 2025

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV”  —  YouTube CEO Neal Mohan released his annual letter Tuesday morning, outlining his priorities for the video platform.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Neal Mohan says AI auto dubbing will expand to all YouTube Partner Program creators, and YouTube will use ML to estimate users' ages for age-appropriate content
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
PBS closes its DEI office to comply with President Trump's EO and says affected staff are leaving, as it faces an FCC investigation and threats to its funding  —  The public broadcaster is also facing an investigation by the FCC and potential threats to its funding.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources and a memo: Disney makes changes to its DEI programs, like scraping its Reimagine Tomorrow initiative and changing content disclaimers on some titles  —  - Other Performance Factors (OPFs): Beginning this fiscal year, Disney will replace the “Diversity & Inclusion” …
Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen and Fox: Super Bowl 2025 averaged a record 126M viewers, up 2% YoY, across Fox, Fox Deportes, Telemundo, Tubi, and NFL platforms; Tubi had 13.6M alone  —  Fox says 126 million viewers watched the game across all platforms.  —  A blowout on the field didn't deter a record number of viewers from watching Super Bowl LIX.
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Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
A BBC study finds 51% of AI answers to questions about the news had “significant issues”, and 19% of answers citing BBC content introduced factual errors  —  Most answers had ‘significant issues’ when researchers asked services to use broadcaster's news articles as source
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
BuzzFeed says it's developing its own social media platform designed to spread “joy” and that uses “AI to give users agency instead of stealing their agency”  —  BuzzFeed, the media site known for its celebrity news and quizzes, announced on Tuesday that it's developing …
Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:
How WBZ NewsRadio reporter Matt Shearer became New England's most viral journalist by chasing the weird and wacky stories of the region  —  The small town of Stow, “emotionally in shambles” without a single Dunkin' store, welcomes its first location in years.
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
A planned walkout at New York magazine was averted on Feb. 7 after its union reached a three-year tentative deal with wage increases and guardrails on AI use  —  The tentative three-year agreement includes guardrails around the use of AI after parent company Vox Media struck a licensing deal with OpenAI last year.
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
NowThis reports 2024 revenue up 122% YoY to $20M and an adjusted profit of $4.6M, achieving profitability for the first time as an independent company  —  The social video publisher credits the election and a new editorial strategy for the momentum  —  The social publisher NowThis …
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Lewis Empson / What Hi-Fi?:
Sky unveils two new TVs in the UK: Sky Glass Gen 2, a successor to its 2021 model, and the cheaper Sky Glass Air, coming later in 2025, both in 43", 55", or 65"  —  Plus the elusive new Sky Glass Air has been revealed...  Sky has announced two new TVs today, including an overdue successor to the Sky Glass, which launched in 2021.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox Corp. acquires Red Seat Ventures, which helped Tucker Carlson, Nancy Grace, Megyn Kelly, Piers Morgan, and others set up their podcast businesses  —  Tucker Carlson, Nancy Grace, Megyn Kelly and Piers Morgan are among the clients of Red Seat Ventures, which now joins Rupert Murdoch's empire.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Red Seat, one of the most influential companies in the news and talk creator economy, will be in Fox's Tubi division, putting it at a remove from Fox News
 
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