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Glenn Garner / Deadline:
After a USTA memo, ABC appeared to mute the audience booing President Trump before the US Open Men's Final on September 7, playing music over his appearance — Despite the United States Tennis Association's attempt to censor the U.S. Open audience's reaction to Donald Trump's presence …
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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US — YouTube got into the game with its first exclusive NFL broadcast Sept. 5, which the platform says averaged more than 17.3 million global viewers.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Axios plans to launch The Axios Show, a five-episode video series featuring one-on-one newsmaker interviews, in September on its own properties, YouTube, and X — When executives at Axios wanted to launch a TV program in 2018 to spotlight its insider-y reporting and journalism chops, they turned to HBO.
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Howard Stern returns to SiriusXM, after trolling viewers with a joke that Andy Cohen had taken over his channel slot; rumors suggested his deal was canceled — “What pisses me off is now I can't leave,” Stern said Monday. “I've been thinking about retiring, now I can't.”
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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement pulls up a drawbridge on its startup rivals that cannot afford such fines, setting a floor price on training infringement — $1.5B. Damn. Who can afford to pay that? — There I was, just sitting there enjoying life when I got the push notification …
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Bloomberg:
Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A reimagined Wizard of Oz draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross $1B in its new run — A reimagined Wizard of Oz is a surprise hit at the Las Vegas Sphere — Good afternoon from Los Angeles.
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo plans to launch a newsletter written from a progressive perspective this month, and has hired several political reporters from Rolling Stone — The Scoop — Later this month, Zeteo is launching a morning political newsletter written from a progressive perspective.
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Ad Age:
Amazon VP of Global Video Advertising Krishan Bhatia is leaving; Bhatia joined Amazon in April 2024 after more than a decade as an ad sales leader at NBCU — Krishan Bhatia is leaving Amazon Ads less than two years after joining as VP of global video advertising and partnerships …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Former New York Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya is launching Bungalow, a longform journalism project, and plans to publish ten digital editions annually — A seasoned journalist wants to take a new approach to longform storytelling. — Next week, the former New York Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Bari Weiss has discussed bringing on former NYT Opinion Editor James Bennet to serve in a major editorial role if Paramount acquires the Free Press — Can the owner of a popular anti-woke, pro-Israel Substack save one of the country's oldest news channels? — The new owners of Paramount appear to think so.
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@dannygroner.bsky.social, @maxwelltani, Business Insider, RedState and Townhall
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
PubMatic sues Google in Virginia over alleged illegal ad tech market monopolization, the second such suit since an April ruling that Google monopolized ad tech — Alphabet Inc.'s Google was sued by advertising exchange PubMatic Inc., which is seeking billions of dollars over its claim …
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MediaPost, TechCrunch, Android Headlines and Business Wire
Irene Garcia Perez / Bloomberg:
How Technicolor Group, a century-old Hollywood postproduction and VFX company, collapsed after struggling to integrate acquisitions such as MPC and The Mill — There are few companies as closely identified with Hollywood's moviemaking magic as Technicolor.
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