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5:45 AM ET, September 8, 2025

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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Adweek, TheDesk.net, Variety and The Wrap
Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Skydance aims to revitalize its cable networks, including MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon, without increasing spending on them  —  The newly combined media company is exploring ways to revive MTV and other once-mighty channels while rivals spin them off
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.
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Reuters withdraws Xi and Putin's longevity chat video, after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it; the video was distributed to 1,000+ media clients  —  Reuters News on Friday withdrew a four-minute video containing an exchange between Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Washington Post:
A WaPo probe into BI's pulled articles finds links between fake journalist Margaux Blanchard and Onyeka Nwelue, a controversial figure with fake academic claims  —  “Margaux Blanchard” appears to be one dubious element of a broader scheme to peddle bogus articles to a number of publications.
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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  —  Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading of millions of pirated books …
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Two authors file a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging Apple knowingly used a dataset of pirated books to train its AI models
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News implements a new policy: “Face the Nation will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews”, following complaints from the DHS  —  The Sunday public affairs show will now run live or live to tape interviews, after an edit to an interview with the Homeland Security Secretary drew pushback.
Matt Hughes / The Guardian:
Sky Sports and TNT Sports are significantly increasing their tennis coverage, seeking to capitalize on female viewers, who make up 50%+ of tennis audiences  —  Sky Sports' overall audience is 31% female but that leaps to 58% with tennis: ‘No sport comes close,’ says one executive
Eric Fisher / Front Office Sports:
Senior analytics leaders from Fox and ESPN criticize Nielsen's opaque and unaccredited audience measurement method for YouTube's Chiefs-Chargers livestream  —  Even before YouTube streams its NFL game Friday night in Brazil between the Chiefs and Chargers, other league rights holders …
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Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:
How YouTube prepared to stream, for free, the Brazil NFL game globally: it partnered with NBC for production, ran multiple tests, and set up backup plans
 
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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

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