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9:55 PM ET, October 8, 2019

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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
China's state broadcaster cancels NBA preseason games after a Houston Rockets exec tweets Hong Kong support; 21M watched Game 6 in 2019 in China vs. 18.3 in US  —  A tweet from the Houston Rockets general manager prompted a backlash in China, making things uncomfortable for a league used …
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Laura Wagner / Deadspin:
Internal memo: ESPN's senior news director mandated that on-air discussion of Houston Rockets exec Daryl Morey avoid political discussion of China and Hong Kong  —  If you watched ESPN yesterday, you saw the network repeatedly attempt to grapple with the story of Houston Rockets general …
Bloomberg:
Blizzard Entertainment, part-owned by Tencent, bans player from competing for one year and rescinds prize money he won after pro-Hong Kong comments  —  - Expressing sympathy for Hong Kong democracy push proves costly  — Hearthstone player won't be allowed to compete for a year
Reuters:
South Park creators tweet mock apology to China: “We welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts. We too love money more than freedom”
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
European Commission makes a call for tenders to create the European Digital Media Observatory, the first core service of a platform to fight disinformation  —  The European Commission has taken the first step towards establishing a new digital platform to help coordinate the fight against disinformation.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg launch The Dispatch, a center-right digital media company with a site, newsletters, and podcasts, in partnership with Substack  —  Two of the biggest names in conservative journalism — Steve Hayes, formerly of the now-defunct Weekly Standard, and Jonah Goldberg …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: As investors cool, Lionsgate is considering splitting off Starz into a separate company, perhaps through a special-purpose acquisition vehicle  —  One scenario calls for Lions Gate to unload Starz through a special-purpose acquisition vehicle; another calls for the restructuring of the entire company
Discussion: Variety, Deadline, The Wrap and @benmullin
Luke Bouma / Cord Cutters News:
Roku debuts interactive pop-up ads that appear during commercial breaks for companies that have partnered with Roku on the feature  —  Last week Roku started to roll out its OS 9.2 update to Roku TVs.  As we expected, there were some unannounced changes in the update.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
60 Minutes plans to launch 60 in 6, an original 6-minute weekly program on Quibi in April  —  The newest edition of “60 Minutes” will have decidedly less time to make its point.  —  The venerable CBS newsmagazine plans to launch an original weekly program - just six minutes in length …
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
OpenAP, an alliance of Viacom, NBCUniversal, Univision, and Fox, rolls out OpenAP Market, which enables targeted video advertising across digital and linear TV  —  After closed beta, the platform is now available to all advertisers  —  OpenAP's future was looking bleak in April when WarnerMedia …
Kate Dwyer / New York Times:
Interview with Katie Couric on her daily email newsletter, use of Instagram, new iHeartRadio podcast called “Next Question” launching on October 10, and more  —  Instagram! iHeartRadio!  Email!  The veteran television personality is back with a desire for your little screens.
Wall Street Journal:
YouTube recently started testing a tool called Instant Reserve to let political ad buyers book slots months ahead of time, similar to traditional TV ad buying  —  A new tool lets political ad buyers book slots through February, when voting starts in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere
AllAccess.com:
Stitcher strikes deals with The Podcast Exchange in Canada and Whooshkaa in Australia to help local advertisers buy ad inventory across its podcasts  —  STITCHER has inked deals with THE PODCAST EXCHANGE (TPX) for advertising sales representation in CANADA and with WHOOSHKAA for ad rep responsibilities in AUSTRALIA.
Discussion: Nieman Lab and PR Newswire
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
NBC Entertainment co-chairman George Cheeks shifts to vice chairman of NBCUniversal Content Studios in major restructure, leaving Paul Telegdy as sole chairman  —  NBCUniversal is making sweeping changes, restructuring its broadcast, studio and digital operations and assigning new roles …
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Matt Strauss to run NBCU's Peacock, replacing Bonnie Hammer, who now oversees Content Studios, a consolidation of Universal TV and Universal Content Productions
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Filings: Quartz lost more than $16M on $12M in revenue through the first six months of this year  —  Kevin Delaney co-founded the digital publication in 2012.  —  Kevin Delaney, the editor in chief of Quartz and one of the digital publication's co-founders is stepping down as part of a shake-up of the company's leadership.
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Sara Jerde / Adweek:
Quartz to search for new editor-in-chief as Kevin Delaney steps down; co-founder Zach Seward to replace Delaney and Jay Lauf as CEO, Katie Weber named president
 
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Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
Users of the Disney+ trial in the Netherlands like the service but say it doesn't remember where they left off and that volume is low; Disney's working on fixes
Reuters:
Martin Sorrell's S4 Capital has finalized a $150M merger with Firewood, Silicon Valley's biggest independent agency, whose clients include Facebook and Google
Discussion: CNBC
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Facebook Journalism Project selects ~20 European publishers for a new three-month program on video programming with $300K in funding to be split among them
Discussion: Nieman Lab
 Earlier Picks: 
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
Hulu enables downloading of shows and movies to watch offline on iOS for those on the $12 per month No Ads subscription; Android support coming soon
The Daily Beast:
RealClear Media, owner of “non-partisan” news site RealClearPolitics, secretly runs a conservative Facebook page with ~800K followers pushing far-right memes
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
First excerpt from Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill describes how private investigators working for Harvey Weinstein surveilled Farrow and NYT's Jodi Kantor