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Doc: Rupert Murdoch wants to change his family trust to ensure Lachlan Murdoch stays in charge of the media empire; three other siblings are fighting the move — Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family's irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force.
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Bloomberg:
Together, the NBA's deals with Disney's ESPN and Comcast's NBC are expected to generate $76B over 11 years, with Amazon paying about $1.8B annually — The National Basketball Association announced new long-term TV contract with Amazon.com Inc., spurning a last minute effort by Warner Bros. Discovery Inc …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The NBA declines WBD's effort to join the set of rights packages built for Amazon, Disney, and NBCUniversal, saying WBD's proposal did not match Amazon's offer
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
The WNBA's deal with Disney, NBC, and Amazon, which is reportedly worth ~$200M/season, includes more national telecasts and an increased global reach
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft says Bing stopped crawling Reddit after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 — Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site. “Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1 …
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit
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Daysia Tolentino / NBC News:
Longtime Mr. Beast collaborator Ava Kris Tyson leaves the YouTube channel after allegations of grooming; Tyson and the alleged victim denied the accusations — Tyson and the alleged victim denied the allegations. — Ava Kris Tyson, a longtime friend and collaborator of YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson …
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John Otis / Washington Post:
Lewis Lapham, the editor who revived Harper's magazine in the 1980s by publishing writers including David Foster Wallace and Barbara Ehrenreich, dies at 89 — He turned Harper's into what he called a “theater of ideas,” promoting emerging voices including David Foster Wallace, Christopher Hitchens and Fareed Zakaria.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
An interview with Time Studios President Dave O'Connor on merging Time's branded content division with its in-house production company to make original content — The Marc Benioff-owned publisher merged its branded content division into its in-house production company as it looks to sell film and TV projects to networks and studios.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A US judge rejects ABC News' motion to dismiss Trump's defamation suit filed after George Stephanopoulos said Trump was found liable for raping E. Jean Carroll — The litigation stems from a March 10 interview in which George Stephanopoulos, the network's star anchor, referred to a civil case brought …
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Catherine Perloff / Adweek:
Six ad firms are limiting their clients' exposure to streaming ads from Pluto TV because they say Pluto exploits auctions using bid duplication to raise prices — Buyers who've pulled spend from the Paramount-owned FAST platform are concerned it's tricking their algorithms into spending too much
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Cagan Koc / Bloomberg:
UMG shares fell as much as 30% on Thursday, the biggest decline since company's IPO, and closed down 21%, after revenue growth disappointed investors — - The company's shareholders include billionaire Bill Ackman — Universal Music Group is the world's biggest record label
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Max Goldbart / Deadline:
ITV reports H1 adjusted EBITA up 40% YoY to £212M, revenue down 3% to £1.9B, ad revenue up 10% to £889M, ITV Studios down 13% to £869M due to strikes in the US — The commercial net's adjusted EBITA was up 40% to £212M ($273M), although revenues dipped slightly to £1.9B.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
The new Disney+, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle goes on sale in the US for $16.99 per month with ads and $29.99 per month without ads — Dragons, Jedis, Marvel and DC superheroes, Harry Potter, Disney princesses — and more from Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery — are now available to stream for a reduced monthly price.
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
After investigating how Meta handles AI-generated explicit images, Oversight Board asks Meta to use the terminology “non-consensual” over “derogatory”, and more — Following investigations into how Meta handles AI-generated explicit images, the company's semi-independent observer body …
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