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8:00 AM ET, March 3, 2025

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: the Academy has talked informally with Netflix and others about airing the Oscars in future years; its exclusive negotiating window with Disney lapsed  —  The audience for the Oscars has declined more than 50% over the last decade.  Will that lead to a break-up with its home of more than 50 years?
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Ryan Coleman / Entertainment Weekly:
Hulu faced technical difficulties during its live airing of the Oscars; in the Oscars' first hour, 34K+ users told Down Detector that the service wasn't working  —  More than 34,000 users reported the streaming site was down within the ceremony's first hour.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Hulu cut its live stream before the Oscars ended, falsely stating “the live event has now ended” while Best Actress and Best Picture were still to come  —  The Disney-owned service cut off its live feed before the Best Actress and Best Picture winners were announced.
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
No Other Land, about Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes, won Best Documentary at the 2025 Oscars, a rebuke after no distributor picked it up in the US  —  In their acceptance speeches, the Israeli and Palestinian co-directors called for “serious actions to stop the injustice.”
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Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Trump and politics were largely absent from the 2025 Oscars, as host Conan O'Brien avoided it; Palestinian activist Basel Adra called “to stop the injustice”  —  The host, Conan O'Brien, avoided politics in his monologue but later made a pointed joke about an “Anora” character who stood up to a powerful Russian.
Jason Leopold / Bloomberg:
How FCC Chair Brendan Carr was cleared by ethics officials to write a chapter for the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 when he was a commissioner  —  Dozens of pages of emails reveal how Brendan Carr, the FCC's Republican chairman and close confidante of President Trump …
Discussion: Reason
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the Skydance-Paramount merger review is far from finished and defends his solicitation of comments on a complaint about 60 Minutes
Ben Mankiewicz / CBS News:
Interviews with Ted Sarandos, Sony's Tom Rothman, and Nancy Meyers on how movies have changed in the era of streaming  —  Hollywood has been re-inventing itself for more 100 years.  Change is part of the culture.  But a pocket-sized “Sunset Boulevard”?  That's not a close-up!
Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
Letters: Google, Amazon, and other ad companies respond to US senators' inquiries about ad placement on pages with CSAM, saying they blocked the sites and more  —  Amazon has issued refunds to affected advertisers  —  Under pressure from bipartisan lawmakers, Google, Amazon …
Wall Street Journal:
MLB plans a TV model where teams cede local rights to MLB for a unified streaming package; teams get ~25% of revenue from local media, the most of any US sport  —  The big sports network is walking away from the national pastime, accelerating baseball's need to cope with the demise of the TV economy that fueled its growth for decades.
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Amazon is set to launch a dedicated linear channel in the Prime Video app in Germany and Austria, offering a selection of Amazon Originals, sports, and more  —  Amazon is set to launch a dedicated linear channel in two European countries that will offer a curated selection of Prime Video original series …
Discussion: Broadband TV News
New York Times:
Sources: VOA's parent opened probes into VOA journalists for reporting on criticism of Trump or for comments seen as critical; Steve Herman was placed on leave  —  The broadcaster placed a longtime journalist on leave amid growing concerns about its editorial independence.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Source: more than 75,000 Washington Post digital subscribers have cancelled their subscriptions following Jeff Bezos' overhaul of the paper's opinion section  —  More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since its owner, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos …
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Jaden Amos / Axios:
Trump says he had dinner with Jeff Bezos on February 26, the day Bezos announced that WaPo's opinion pages would focus on personal liberties and free markets
 
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Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
After the AP's ban, some White House correspondents floated the idea of boycotting covering Trump events in protest, but members of TV networks pushed back
Maggie Harrison / Futurism:
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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Connected TV ad platform MNTN files for a US IPO; the company, which has actor Ryan Reynolds as chief creative officer, raised a $119M Series D in 2021
Discussion: Reuters
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
NBC News' digital newsroom union and its ~300 members, represented by the NewsGuild of NY, reach a tentative contract deal, its first since forming in 2019
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Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Amazon says it has cut “a small number” of jobs at its Wondery podcast unit; Wondery closed its operations in Brazil and Mexico earlier in February
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CNN:
A TASS journalist gained access to Trump's meeting with Zelensky, even as AP and Reuters were barred; the White House says he was unauthorized and escorted out
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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