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Apple launches its MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, playoffs, and more for $14.99/month or $99/year — Today, Apple launched MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, Audi 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs …
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Sources: as Apple launches MLS Season Pass, the company is shopping ad packages for up to ~$4M per season, without guaranteeing advertisers viewership numbers — Apple Inc. will launch its new streaming service for Major League Soccer this week with a lot of the traditional practices of TV advertising kicked to the sidelines.
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The New York Times' coverage of trans kids points to a newspaper crusade, focusing resources on a tiny segment of medical care compared to other teen procedures — A question to ask. At length. — EARIER THIS MONTH, the administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wrote to 12 state universities …
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Snap reports Q4 revenue flat YoY at $1.3B, vs. $1.31B est., DAUs up 17% YoY to 375M, and a $288M net loss, vs. $23M in net income YoY; stock drops 14%+ — - Snap missed on revenue for the fourth quarter but beat on earnings. — Snap had a rough 2022, as a slowing economy led numerous companies to slash their digital ad budgets.
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Interviews with reporters, editors, and Donald Trump on how Russiagate coverage led to Pulitzer Prizes and retractions, shaped Trump's press relations, and more — Seven and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country's forty-fifth president …
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YouTube TV drops the MLB Network after failing to reach a deal for continued carriage; customers will also lose any recorded programming on their DVRs — After going all of 2022 without a single carriage dispute, live TV streaming service YouTube TV will see its first big channel drop from the service this year.
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Sources: publishers' Q1 ad revenue faces a rocky start, with January pacing 10% to 25% off forecasts and fewer clients paying for full-year deals — The first quarter is off to a rocky start for publishers' advertising businesses, and while that might not come as a surprise given the state of the economy …
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Sources: seeking to boost Reels' quality, Meta executives are leaning toward relaxing the company's long-standing opposition to sharing ad revenue with creators — When Wall Street analysts dial into an earnings call tomorrow with Mark Zuckerberg, they're likely to pepper the Meta Platforms CEO …
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KPCC, Los Angeles' most popular FM public radio station, plans to change its name to LAist 89.3 and consolidate its radio, podcast, digital, and event offerings — Don't touch that dial! You've still got the right channel. — Los Angeles' most popular FM public radio station, KPCC …
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USC: in 2022, women made up 30% of artists on Billboard's Hot 100 Year-End Chart, up from 23.3% in 2021, 14% of songwriters, flat YoY, and 3.4% of producers — The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released its sixth annual survey of the Billboard Hot 100 charts Tuesday and found progress in several areas on gender and POC diversity.
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A look at the roots of media “objectivity” and growing public distrust, especially for the Washington press corps after 1968's Democratic National Convention — Half a century ago, most of the public said they trusted the news media. Today, most say they don't.

TV talk show Dr. Phil will end original episodes in the spring after 21 seasons; CBS Media Ventures hopes to air syndicated shows through the 2023-2024 season — “Dr. Phil,” one of daytime TV's stalwart talk shows, will end its run of original episodes in the spring after 21 seasons.
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Sources: Showtime pulled short-lived shows from its streaming service, like Kidding and American Gigolo, and is expected to let rights holders shop their series — ‘Kidding,’ ‘Super Pumped,’ ‘American Rust,’ ‘On Becoming a God in Central Florida,’ ‘Let the Right One In’ and 'American Gigolo …
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Paramount Global plans to merge its Showtime streaming service with Paramount+'s ad-free tier later in 2023 and call the new offering Paramount+ with SHOWTIME
Paramount Global plans to merge its Showtime streaming service with Paramount+'s ad-free tier later in 2023 and call the new offering Paramount+ with SHOWTIME
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Twitter shuts down CoTweets, an experimental feature that let two users author and publish a tweet in tandem; in a month, CoTweets will show a single author — If you're reading this, it's already too late to post a CoTweet. — Did you use Twitter's fairly new CoTweets feature?
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