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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD sues Sling TV over its short-term offerings that let viewers access its bundle for as little as a day; Disney filed an identical suit in August — The filing comes after Disney sued Dish over the offering of day passes, which allow viewers to bypass monthly subscriptions.
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Variety, Awful Announcing, TVNewsCheck, The Wrap, Deadline and Sports Business Journal
Sara Fischer / Axios:
In a new ad campaign, TelevisaUnivision says Google plans to move Univision from YouTube TV's basic bundle to a Spanish-language package that costs extra — TelevisaUnivision, one of two major Spanish-language broadcasters in the U.S., has unveiled a new consumer ad campaign warning customers …
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New York Times:
A profile of the intensely private Lachlan Murdoch, who moved to Sydney in 2021 and whose control of the Murdoch empire ensures it retains its conservative tilt — Photo Illustration by Zak Bickel/The New York Times; Photographs by Dina Litovsky for The New York Times; Emily Najera for The New York Times …
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Lachlan Murdoch completes a deal to secure control of his family's media empire, ensuring that it remains conservative; source: the deal is valued at $3.3B
Lachlan Murdoch completes a deal to secure control of his family's media empire, ensuring that it remains conservative; source: the deal is valued at $3.3B
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Marc Schneider / Billboard:
RIAA: US recorded music revenue hit $5.6B across all formats in H1 2025, up 1% YoY; streaming generated $4.68B, and paid subscriptions grew 5.7% YoY to $3.2B — Streaming drives 84% of music revenue in the U.S. market. — The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday …
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Plex tells customers to reset their passwords after suffering data breach that includes email addresses, usernames, and passwords — Media streaming platform Plex is warning customers to reset passwords after suffering a data breach in which a hacker was able to steal customer authentication data from one of its databases.
James Cridland / Podnews:
Todd Cochrane, a podcasting pioneer who started in October 2004 and founded podcast hosting company Blubrry, has died at age 61 — Todd Cochrane was born in Quincy, Michigan. Given a strong work ethic by his parents and grandparents, he graduated from a small, country high school in a class of less than a hundred.
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Reuters:
The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after 19 people were killed and 100+ were injured in anti-corruption protests that were triggered by the ban — Nepal has lifted a social media ban following protests that resulted in the deaths of 19 people, a government minister said on Tuesday.
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The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS aired MTV's VMAs for the first time, prompting a 42% YoY increase in audience to 5.5M viewers, a six-year high — Welcome to broadcast, MTV. … Sunday's show, which also aired on MTV and streamed on Paramount+, delivered 5.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen's earliest-available numbers (that include out-of-home viewing).
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Sportico, The A.V. Club, Joe DeMaio on LinkedIn, TVNewsCheck, Digital Music News, Deadline, Cele|bitchy, Forbes, Adweek, The Wrap, Business Insider and CBS News
Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech:
A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom — Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire …
Stine Jacobsen / Reuters:
Swedish music rights organization STIM launches a license that lets AI companies train models on copyrighted works while paying royalties to creators — Sweden's music rights organisation has introduced a licence that allows artificial intelligence companies to legally use copyrighted songs …
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Digital Music News, Claes Reimertz on LinkedIn, Billboard, Euronews and STIM
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Independent music company Reservoir Media acquires the majority of the Miles Davis estate's music rights; Reservoir has spent $876M on acquisitions since 2007 — Reservoir, led by Golnar Khosrowshahi, has acquired the majority of music rights owned by the Davis estate ahead of the jazz master's centennial next year.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount chief communications officer Justin Dini steps down following the Skydance merger; Dini started in 2017 and will be replaced by Melissa Zukerman — Dini, who had been chief communications officer, will exit in the wake of Skydance's acquisition of the company.
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PRWeek, The Wrap, Deadline and Justin Dini on LinkedIn
