Top News:
The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney says Jimmy Kimmel's show will return to ABC on Tuesday and the suspension was “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment” — The Walt Disney company in a new statement says the move was made “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.”
Discussion:
American Civil Liberties Union, Variety, Associated Press, New York Times, Deadline, The Wrap, @ewagmeister, The Moderate Voice, @glovestudios.bsky.social, @frankiemillie10.bsky.social, People, The Wrap, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, @scalzi.com, The Cut, @marisakabas.bsky.social, @willoremus, @mattbelloni, @davidakaye.bsky.social, /Film, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, @ianbremmer, @jcpxdesigns.bsky.social, All Rise News, @kellycarlin.bsky.social, @paul@oldfriends.live, @allenanalysis, @progavalanche.bsky.social, El País, The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, CNN, @edeggans.bsky.social, KFOR.com Oklahoma City, LateNighter, @sarafischer, Gizmodo, @brendancarrfcc, @brianstelter, @dylanbyers, The Hollywood Gossip, @sherman4949, TV Insider, @dylanbyers, TV Tonight, @dianademarest.bsky.social, @lucas_shaw, @mattbelloni, @davidfrum, Kotaku, @canaansdad1987.bsky.social, @sherman4949, @ziggyzaggs.bsky.social, Inverse, @peark.es, @clarajeffery.bsky.social, @sherman4949, @scottnover, Axios, UPI, @sherman4949, @blu2b4u.bsky.social, @brucedlittle.bsky.social, @scottnover, Fortune, Blaze Media, The Post Millennial, New York Daily News, Straight Arrow News, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, The A.V. Club, Semafor and NME
RELATED:
Loree Seitz / The Wrap:
Sinclair says it will preempt Jimmy Kimmel's show on its ABC affiliate stations starting Tuesday as it discusses the show's potential return with ABC — The broadcaster, which has demanded an apology and Turning Point USA donation from the late-night host, will replace the time slot with local news programming
Discussion:
@wearesinclair, The Hollywood Reporter, LateNighter, The Hill, TheDesk.net, Mediaite, Mirror, Axios, New York Post, HuffPost, Entertainment Weekly, TV Tech, Baller Alert, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Variety, People, RedState, Cord Cutters News, @mariopro.bsky.social, @frankcatalano.bsky.social, Newsbusters, NewsMax.com, The A.V. Club, Extra, The Post Millennial, Instapundit and Just Jared
CNBC:
Source: Disney CEO Bob Iger and Dana Walden, co-chair of Disney Entertainment, made the decision to return Jimmy Kimmel Live! to air
Source: Disney CEO Bob Iger and Dana Walden, co-chair of Disney Entertainment, made the decision to return Jimmy Kimmel Live! to air
Discussion:
StreamTV Insider, Adweek, Deadline, @tylerfromtheinternet.com, Axios, NPR, Barrett Media, New York Post, Financial Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, @banksyfella.bsky.social, Screen, Benzinga, Mashable, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Daily Caller News Foundation, TMZ.com, Washington Examiner, Global News, LateNighter, KYMA-TV, Deseret News, MSNBC, Mirror, CBS News, Entertainment Weekly and Yahoo Finance
Axios:
White House says TikTok's new US entity would lease a copy of ByteDance's algorithm, which Oracle would retrain; US users wouldn't need to re-download the app — TikTok's new U.S. entity would lease its algorithm from Chinese owner ByteDance under the terms of a proposed deal between the U.S. and China …
Discussion:
Variety, Al Jazeera, Wall Street Journal, DigiTimes, Mother Jones, Bloomberg, Livemint, MarketWatch, Channel NewsAsia, Fox News, Ukrainian National News, Yahoo Finance, CNN, Financial Times, iPhone in Canada, PetaPixel, Associated Press, @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social, Financial Express, Social Media Today, NDTV Profit, Forrester, PYMNTS.com, KEYE, The Daily Signal, The Independent, 9to5Mac, Forbes, New Republic, calgaryherald, Newser, Implicator.ai, @wademinter.com, Billboard, MediaPost, Digital Music News, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, ZeroHedge News, Proactiveinvestors UK, Metro.co.uk and Türkiye Today, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:
Erin Doherty / CNBC:
Trump says Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch may join TikTok US' ownership group; source: Lachlan is not likely to join on his own, but Fox Corp. may be involved — President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan …
Discussion:
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Crikey, Benzinga, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, The Age, IJR, Proactive, Yahoo Finance, Associated Press, International Business Times, France 24, The Boston Globe, Türkiye Today, Music Ally, Quartz, @karlbode.com, TechRadar, Nairametrics, Tech Times, The American Bazaar, KnowTechie, Forbes Middle East, TipRanks Financial, Just The News, Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Kos, Sky News, New Jersey Online, Mumbrella, @brianstelter, @tvietor08, Digital Journal, @danprimack, B&T, Telegraph, Times of India, Anadolu Ajansı …, Australian Financial Review, The Information, Tomorrow USA, Gizmodo, Straight Arrow News, Al Jazeera, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Deadline, The Independent, @tomgara@threads.com, The Japan Times, Crooks and Liars, The Hill, Washington Examiner, The Wrap, Raw Story, Forbes, Bloomberg, Axios, Mediaite, InDaily, Inside South …, Reuters and Capital Brief
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
A Fox Corp. investment in TikTok would help Fox promote TV programming to young audiences, and redeem Rupert Murdoch's disastrous $580M Myspace purchase in 2005 — A Fox Corp. investment in TikTok would give the Murdoch media empire a platform with 170 million US users to promote a broad range …
Discussion:
@robbendigo, CNET, Australian Financial Review and The Hollywood Reporter
Bloomberg:
A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government
A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government
Discussion:
Associated Press, NPR, New York Times, Anadolu Ajansı …, NOTUS, New York Post, Washington Examiner, The Indian Express, Asia Financial, KSTP-TV, Techstrong IT, CBS News, Business Insider, India Today, UPI, Mashable, @pinemikey.bsky.social, PYMNTS.com, Politico, Digital Music News, ABC7, CNBC, Semafor, Barron's Online, ABC News, Reuters, TipRanks Financial, Bloomberg Law and Malay Mail, more at Techmeme »
Digiday:
The US v. Google ad tech trial, in which a judge ruled that the company illegally monopolized the digital ad market, begins its remedies phase — The ad tech trial many thought would go nowhere has done the unthinkable: it delivered. Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google illegally monopolized …
Discussion:
Digit, MediaNews4U, Mumbrella, New York Times, Fox News, @jason_kint, Ars Technica, The Business Times, Bloomberg, @mrddmia, New York Post, Yahoo Finance, @aagslater, @newsfromgoogle, Livemint, Reuters, TipRanks Financial, Wall Street Journal, @megangra, Search Engine Land, Mercury News, PYMNTS.com, Big Tech on Trial, Courthouse News Service, Android Headlines, The Hill, Proactive, @matthewstoller, Breitbart, The Information, Thurrott, BSS, BMI and LEX 18 News, more at Techmeme »
Doug Shapiro / The Mediator:
As GenAI disrupts media content creation by lowering barriers and costs, value will shift to complements such as merchandise, live events, and exclusive access — The Logical Conclusion of Plummeting Creation Costs … There are a lot of open questions about how GenAI will affect the media business …
Discussion:
@misctakes.com and Doug Shapiro on LinkedIn
Reuters:
RSF says Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed from 2020 to 2024, has been sentenced to four more years on a charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” — - China jails citizen-journalist for second time, RSF says — Zhang Zhan initially jailed in 2020 after documenting COVID in Wuhan
Discussion:
@n0000024, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, @yalkunuluyol, Le Monde, @unhumanrights, Metro.co.uk, Telegraph, The Guardian, @scottadamssays, @hrw_chinese, UPI, GB News, NDTV Profit and Human Events
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Arcade Media, the management company behind British YouTuber collective The Sidemen, sells a minority stake to Thomas Benski's film studio and VC group Lumina — Company behind hugely popular British YouTuber collective takes US investment in latest sign of shifting media landscape
Discussion:
Music Ally, Televisual, Advanced Television, Broadcast, C21Media, BusinessCloud and Deadline
Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
US survey: most Fox News anchors saw increases in respondents who trusted them “a lot” or “some”; Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow saw trust levels decline — Fox News anchors rise, Joe Scarborough and Chris Cuomo fall and David Muir reigns in primetime, THR's exclusive poll finds.
Discussion:
@karlbode.com, LateNighter and @chrisyogerst.com
BBC:
An investigation finds a Russian-funded news network aiming to disrupt Moldova's upcoming elections through fake news undermining Moldova's pro-EU ruling party — A secret Russian-funded network is attempting to disrupt upcoming democratic elections in an eastern European state, the BBC has found.
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, and Rupert Murdoch file to dismiss Trump's $10B defamation lawsuit over Jeffrey Epstein report, saying “the article is true” — “In an affront to the First Amendment, the President of the United States brought this lawsuit to silence a newspaper …
Discussion:
UPI, CBC News, ABC News, The Independent, Fortune, @eriqgardner, Variety, Raw Story, @robertfreundlaw, @robertscotthorton.bsky.social, Bloomberg and @joshgerstein
