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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney and Charter reach an agreement to restore some channels, including ESPN and ABC, for the cable operator's nearly 15M Spectrum subscribers — Disney and Charter have decided to let ESPN sports take the field on traditional cable after all. — The two media giants …
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Disney and Charter's deal bundles ESPN+ with Spectrum TV Select Plus, and the upcoming ESPN streaming channel and Disney+'s ad tier with Spectrum TV Select — Disney and Charter have resolved the carriage dispute that blocked millions of viewers from watching ESPN, ABC, FX, and other Disney-owned networks.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Interviews with Disney Entertainment co-chairman Dana Walden and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro about the Charter deal, how Spectrum expands ESPN+'s reach, and more — Walden, the co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, and Pitaro, the chairman of ESPN, talk about what the Spectrum deal means for their Disney divisions.
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Spectrum will no longer carry some Disney-owned channels, like Freeform, Disney Junior, Disney XD, FXX, and Nat Geo Wild, as part of Charter's new Disney deal
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Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
An investigation finds that Barstool Sports apparently controls 40+ “burner” X accounts to launder viral copyright-protected videos for its legitimate accounts — A Daily Beast investigation found more than forty content-swiping Twitter accounts apparently controlled by Barstool …
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly:
The Internet Archive appeals a US judge's decision in March 2023 favoring publishers in a copyright infringement case over the nonprofit's ebook lending program — As expected, the Internet Archive this week submitted its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely-watched copyright case involving …
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
How UMG's Deezer deal, which will give more royalty money to professional artists, could pull other major labels and platforms into a new phase of streaming — Universal's new deal on streaming royalties underscores how the major labels have remade themselves throughout the digital era
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
As some supposedly “leaked” Harry Styles songs are being sold on Discord, fans and AI-analysis companies struggle to determine if the clips are AI-generated — Dozens of unreleased Harry Styles songs have leaked on underground Discords in the last month. The fandom can't decide if they're real or AI-generated.
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Rachel Graf / The Information:
Sources describe Apollo's Yahoo turnaround efforts, including layoffs, asset sales, and new partnerships; Yahoo is on pace to generate $7B in 2023 gross revenue — When speaking about the company he inherited in September 2021, Jim Lanzone is remarkably blunt.
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Jairo Bolledo / Rappler:
A Philippine trial court acquits Nobel laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and the outlet of tax evasion charges after a tax court cleared them in January 2023 — MANILA, Philippines - A Pasig court acquitted Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Rappler chief executive officer Maria Ressa …
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Financial Times:
How a decade-long effort to restructure loans extended to the Barclay family culminated in Lloyds Banking Group seizing control of the Telegraph newspaper group — How a decade-long effort to restructure loans extended to the reclusive businessmen's empire culminated in Lloyds Banking Group seizing control of a national newspaper
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen's Gracenote unveils the FAST Program, a new initiative to help content companies get their FAST channels distributed by major streaming services — Unveiled at IBC in Amsterdam, it promises “better FAST content visibility, consumption and monetization.”
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
How the UK's Reach is expanding its reader revenue trials, including apps with metered paywalls, to diversify away from its heavy reliance on ads — Reach is diversifying away from ad revenue, although that will remain the main focus. — Reach has expanded its experiments with reader revenue …
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