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11:55 AM ET, September 25, 2025

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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 …
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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 …
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
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
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 …
Jourdan Rodrigue / The Athletic:
An interview with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on the NFL's growing relationship with YouTube, embracing creators, altcasts, a streaming Super Bowl, and more  —  SANTA CLARA, Calif. — It's not every day that the NFL commissioner grabs a YouTube star into a bear hug, but Roger Goodell …
Austin Fuller / Current:
PBS North Carolina lays off 32 employees, after five people took buyouts, and cuts 16 vacant positions, after losing 15% of the network's budget to federal cuts  —  PBS North Carolina has laid off 32 employees over the past 10 days, according to a statement from CEO David Crabtree.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Baltimore Banner names Audrey Cooper as its EIC, replacing founding editor Kimi Yoshino; Cooper has been EIC of WNYC since 2020  —  The nonprofit newsroom won a Pulitzer Prize before its third birthday but is still pursuing financial sustainability.  Banner news executives said to expect …
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.
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Delta signs a multiyear deal with YouTube to bring a selection of the platform's content to its inflight entertainment systems, starting September 25  —  Content from top YouTube creators and podcasts will be added to Delta's inflight entertainment system, with free trials of YouTube Premium …
Discussion: Delta News Hub
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter  —  Spotify on Thursday announced a series of updates to its AI policy, designed to better indicate when AI is being used to make music …
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.
 
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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
Emma Roth / The Verge:
YouTube adds a “hide” button to let users dismiss recommendation pop-ups that appear at the end of videos, following user feedback that pop-ups were distracting
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
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta says Instagram has hit 3B monthly users and is changing its home screen to prioritize DMs and Reels; it is testing opening directly into Reels in India
Mike Davis / Asbury Park Press:
New Jersey PBS will shut down on July 1, 2026, due to the federal rescission and state funding falling 75% to $250K
 

 
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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

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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