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5:00 PM ET, November 19, 2025

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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years  —  Major League Baseball announced its new TV deals with NBC, Netflix and ESPN on Wednesday, restructuring its broadcast future.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users  —  Feature debuts after streamer introduced text-based AI recaps last year … Now Amazon is using AI to add sight, sound and motion to the mix.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
A US federal judge denies Disney's request to block Sling TV's one-day pass that allows streaming of live content, saying Disney didn't prove “irreparable harm”  —  The entertainment giant failed to prove that Sling TV's temporary streaming passes caused it irreparable harm, according to the ruling.
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
The Olivia Nuzzi comeback shows everything that is wrong with modern media, where personal branding, access trading, and controversy trump credibility  —  When news broke last September about Olivia Nuzzi's alleged relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., my first instinct—within minutes, actually—was sympathy.
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Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Moral rot within journalism makes it hard for ethical practitioners to do their jobs, as they watch successful people in the field displaying malleable ethics
Jin Yu Young / New York Times:
The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in “uncharted waters”  —  A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher's books because they had A.I.-generated covers.
Ben Jacobs / Politico:
A look at Verdict with Ted Cruz, currently the most popular podcast of any sitting US politician, which puts Ted Cruz ahead of rivals in a potential 2028 WH bid  —  Three times a week, late in the evening, a middle-aged man pulls a microphone out of a Pelican briefcase …
Emine Sinmaz / The Guardian:
NYT says it will not renew Larry Summers' contract as a contributing writer for its Opinion section, after the publication of his emails with Jeffrey Epstein  —  Publication said it will not renew former treasury secretary's contract in latest fallout after release of emails
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok says it will test letting users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed, and more advanced AI-generated content labeling tech
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Bloomberg Media says it has added 100K+ subscribers over the past year and is nearing 700K paying readers and viewers, and reports revenue up 7% YoY in 2025  —  Bloomberg Media chief operating officer Julia Beizer has explained how the business has used AI to create “synthetic characters” …
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M  —  Startup has raised $250 million and says annual revenue has reached $200 million  —  Suno, an AI music platform in which users …
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in  —  Agreement with Udio could allow fans to create their own songs using licensed tracks if artists opt in
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times:
AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation  —  The firm's Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated in is capital-intensive and requires sizable investments to scale.
Variety:
Sources: Paramount Skydance formed a consortium with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds to bid $71B for WBD; Paramount denies the claim  —  UPDATED: Paramount Skydance has denied a Variety report that the company was forming an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds …
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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter:
Source: Paramount CEO David Ellison was set to attend a White House dinner Tuesday evening with President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Trump calls for ABC to lose its broadcast license and says Brendan Carr “should look at that” after an ABC reporter asked questions about Khashoggi and Epstein  —  Donald Trump called for ABC to lose its broadcast license after he grew irate at correspondent Mary Bruce …
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
WHCA reporters raise concerns about Saudi's Al Arabiya being the sole foreign outlet at Trump's MBS meeting and no mention of Khashoggi in background info
 
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Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Christoph Schneider, Prime Video Germany's Country Director since 2022, is leaving Amazon after 13 years due to an internal restructure that eliminates his role
Krishani Dhanji / The Guardian:
ABC MD Hugh Marks criticizes attacks on the Australian broadcaster as “opportunistic” over claims its Four Corners program distorted Trump's January 6 speech
Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Google's pivot to AI Overviews cut Stereogum's ad revenue by 70%, founder Scott Lapatine says, so the site is shifting toward a subscription-focused model
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Nexstar's $6.2B proposed merger with Tegna, which would result in Nexstar reaching 60% of US homes; CEO Perry Sook is confident about FCC approval
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
During an Air Force One gaggle, President Trump said “Quiet, quiet, piggy” to a female Bloomberg reporter when she asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein emails
 

 
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Will Knight / Wired:
Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation

Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever

Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers across four cities saw different prices for the same item from the same store at the same time; Instacart says it's running tests
 
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