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9:15 AM ET, November 21, 2025

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New York Times:
Sources: Paramount Skydance, Comcast, and Netflix bid in the first round for WBD; Comcast and Netflix are seeking just the studio and streaming parts of WBD  —  The outcome of the sale could alter the trajectory of the entertainment business.  —  The heavyweights of Hollywood made their cases …
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Financial Times:
A look at the WBD bidding process as first-round bids arrive; sources say Paramount CEO David Ellison and Larry Ellison enjoy an advantage in Washington
Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Analysis: BBC license fee evasion rate hits 12.5%, costing it up to £550M; households that say they don't consume BBC content rises from 2.4M in 2021 to 3.6M  —  Public accounts committee calculates cost of households either evading the fee or saying they do not need TV licence
Discussion: Advanced Television and The Sun
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Eros Innovation, an AI and IP company which owns 12K+ film titles and 100K+ AI-ready characters, closed ~$150M in capital and acquisitions at a $2B valuation  —  Eros Innovation has closed approximately $150 million in capital and strategic acquisitions as the company accelerates its transformation …
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Roblox ads remain an “insignificant” revenue source for the company as developers aren't interested due to low rates and advertisers are wary of users under 13  —  Gaming platform geared for kids turns out to be a tough sell  —  Roblox Corp. executives have been trying …
Discussion: DNYUZ and WALV-TV
Wall Street Journal:
A look at CBS News under Bari Weiss: plans for a makeover of the CBS Evening News, concerns among veterans about her outspoken support of Israel, and more  —  The new editor in chief is personally recruiting potential anchors, booking guests herself and asking staff what they do
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Antenna: Fox One paying subscribers hit 2.3M by the end of October, after rising by 1.1M during the month; a $40 bundle with ESPN Unlimited launched on Oct. 2  —  The number of streamers paying for a version of Fox Corporation's nascent streaming service Fox One has surpassed 2 million subscribers since …
Discussion: Antenna
Renju Jose / Reuters:
Australia adds Twitch to teen social media ban; Twitch plans to deactivate accounts for 16-and-under users from Jan. 9 and bar new underage users from Dec. 10  —  Australia's internet watchdog on Friday said it would include Amazon.com-owned (AMZN.O) live streaming service Twitch …
John Buckley / Capital Brief:
Sources: US officials raised concerns with Australia over its streaming content quotas that the government is trying to push through the Senate before year end  —  The US Embassy has directly raised concerns about the policy in Canberra, raising the stakes for the Albanese government as it pursues an aggressive tech reform agenda.
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Q&A with Variety's new publisher and co-president, Dea Lawrence, on her career, on AI and digital creators being “crucial” for the outlet, and more  —  Dea Lawrence has assumed the top business role at Variety, succeeding Michelle Sobrino Stearns as publisher and also becoming co-president …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The White House sends out a press release calling ABC News “a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network” and cataloging perceived offenses  —  A day after President Donald Trump blew up at ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce and called for the network to lose …
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Reuters:
The FCC opens a review of agreements between national networks and local TV stations, including about rules controlling how stations preempt network programs
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Sources: a White House official discussed with Larry Ellison cutting CNN hosts that President Trump loathes and running CBS shows like 60 Minutes on CNN  —  Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery  —  Senior White House officials …
 
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Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
A look at the “explosion” of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's Southland, and nonprofit LA Public Press
Bloomberg:
Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads
Matt Hughes / The Guardian:
Paramount wins UK rights to show most UEFA Champions League games from 2027 to 2031; sources say its bid was much higher than TNT's current £1B per year deal
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David Ingram / NBC News:
Cornell researchers: Grokipedia cites sources deemed “generally unreliable” or “blacklisted” by Wikipedia, including neo-Nazi sites Stormfront and VDare
Reuters:
A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations
Letterboxd:
Letterboxd says it will launch rental platform Letterboxd Video Store, curated with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in early December
 

 
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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, its “best model yet”, in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning

Reuters:
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $18.02B, vs. $17.49B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, with AI chip sales doubling to $8.2B
 
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