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12:20 PM ET, May 12, 2025

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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline:
Lachlan Murdoch says the new Fox streaming service will be called Fox One and Fox plans to launch it the start of football season in fall 2025  —  Lachlan Murdoch said the new Fox streaming service he's been teasing for months will be called Fox One and will launch before the start of football season this fall.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox Corp reports Q3 revenue up 27% YoY to $4.37B, ad revenue up 65% to $1.2B, driven by Super Bowl, Tubi, and news, and a $354M net income, vs $704M in Q3 2024
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
The Trump administration fired US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about xAI using copyrighted content to train AI  —  The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
The Guardian:
Sources: the UK Foreign Office asks the BBC World Service to draw up a budget of up to £70M per year lower than the BBC management says it needs  —  Exclusive: David Lammy asks BBC bosses to draw up tightened budget amid criticism move could harm UK's global influence
Max Tani / Semafor:
G. Elliott Morris, the data journalist who took over 538 in 2023, launches Strength In Numbers, a paid Substack; his relationship with ABC deteriorated in 2024  —  The Scoop  —  The former head of 538, shuttered last year by ABC News, is building a new media outlet aimed at recapturing …
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
With upfronts kicking off today, major media companies and streaming giants prepare to pitch ad buyers amid economic anxieties and Trump's tariff threats  —  The year has gotten off to a clamorous start for corporate America (not to mention the rest of us), with epic stock market gyrations …
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
How OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google responded to EU court orders to block DNS resolution for pirate sites; OpenDNS left France and Belgium instead of complying  —  The frontline of online piracy liability keeps moving, and core internet infrastructure providers are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs.
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
A look at the costs, incentives, benefits, and tradeoffs of filming in California as experienced by the show Fallout, which is shooting its second season in CA  —  The show's producer, Jonathan Nolan, has put himself at the forefront of Hollywood's push to get California to approve $750 million in tax rebates.
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
Zach Schonfeld / The Guardian:
The line between documentaries and PR is blurring as streaming platforms opt for docs produced by the subjects themselves and shy away from controversy  —  As Netflix scraps an epic series exploring the Purple Rain star's complexities, and Max takes down Leaving Neverland, we ask …
Jake Kanter / Deadline:
YouTube suspends several fake movie trailer channels from its partner program after an investigation showed the scale of AI-generated fake movie trailers  —  YouTube has further cracked down on fake movie trailer channels.  —  The video giant has suspended ad revenue on Screen Trailers and Royal Trailer …
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
French film producer Pathé sells a 20% stake to logistics magnate Rodolphe Saadé and plans to focus on “internationally-oriented films and series”  —  French-Lebanese logistics magnate Rodolphe Saadé, who is buying the stake, lauds the producer and cinema operator as …
Discussion: Variety and Deadline
 
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CNN:
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Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
WMG launches the WMG Pulse app in beta to let artists and their teams access real-time information about streaming performance and more across various platforms
BBC:
Over 400 British musicians, writers, and artists ask Keir Starmer to back a rule requiring developers to be transparent about using their material to train LLMs
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Andrew Marchand / New York Times:
Sources: YouTube is favored to stream the NFL's opening week Friday night game, its first exclusive NFL broadcast, which may be available globally for free
New York Times:
Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, who co-authored an op-ed criticizing Israel in a student newspaper last year, is released from ICE custody after a judge's order
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: ESPN will call its forthcoming flagship streaming app ESPN; the cheaper option will still be ESPN+, which doesn't include the most-watched live games
 

 
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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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