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Max Tani / Semafor:
Some Disney shareholders, including Reporters Without Borders, criticize Disney for suspending Jimmy Kimmel and ask it to turn over related documents  —  The Scoop  —  A group of Disney shareholders are demanding that the company turn over documents related to its decision …
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: Jimmy Kimmel Live! drew 6.26M viewers on Tuesday, over 3x its Q2 average, despite not airing in 23% of US homes due to Nexstar and Sinclair blackouts  —  More than 6 million viewers tuned in for the late night host's first show back. … Despite not airing in about 23 percent …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
As Sinclair and Nexstar refuse to air Kimmel's show, Disney has strong leverage with its ownership of major ABC stations and upcoming affiliate deal renewals  —  Nexstar said Wednesday that while it is ‘engaged in productive discussions’ with Disney, it will continue to preempt late-night show for the time being
James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter:
Jimmy Kimmel's 28-min return monologue gets 13M views in 14 hours on YouTube; his current most-watched monologue, on his son's health issues in 2017, has 14M  —  Kimmel's emotional and highly anticipated return to ABC is racking up views and should soon become the most popular ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ monologue on YouTube.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Jimmy Kimmel returned to TV after nearly a week's suspension, said it was never his intention to make light of the murder of a young man, and thanked supporters
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
In a post, President Trump criticized ABC for returning Jimmy Kimmel to the air and said he would “test ABC out” as “they gave me $16 Million Dollars” last time
NBC News:
Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock  —  This structure will comply with a bipartisan law passed in 2024 that sought to ban TikTok if the platform were not sold to U.S.-based owners this year.
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Dylan Byers / Puck:
Sources: Paramount is expected to acquire The Free Press in two weeks for ~$150M in cash and stock; Bari Weiss would take a CBS News editorial leadership role  —  Bari Weiss, the Times defector turned Free Press founder, is now poised to cash a giant check from David Ellison and seize the reins at CBS News …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
An Indian court dismisses X's March lawsuit challenging the government's content takedown orders, ruling foreign platforms can't invoke free speech protections  —  An Indian court has dismissed an attempt by Elon Musk's X to challenge the Indian government's content takedown orders …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Alden's losing bid for DallasNews is a rare win for family-controlled, publicly traded newspapers that are viewed as community trusts, not financial assets  —  Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust?  This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC and Comcast-owned Sky News strike a multiyear deal to make Sky's global coverage available to MSNBC's US audiences starting Oct. 1, as NBC and MSNBC split  —  MSNBC may no longer be able to use NBC News' newsgathering from around the globe, so it's turning to another Comcast-backed journalism outlet.
Ryan Gould / Bloomberg:
Canadian PE firm Novacap agrees to acquire Integral Ad Science, which provides digital ad measurement and verification, in a deal valuing IAS at about $1.9B  —  Novacap has agreed to acquire Integral Ad Science Holding Corp. in a deal that values the advertising analytics company at about $1.9 billion.
 
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