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7:00 AM ET, January 7, 2025

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit  —  Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit  —  Disney announced a deal …
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Fubo is expected to immediately become cash flow positive after its deal with Disney closes in 12 to 18 months; Fubo's stock closed up 253.85% on January 6
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: layoffs affecting “many dozens of employees” are expected at The Washington Post this week; star reporter Josh Dawsey is leaving WaPo for a job at WSJ  —  The Washington Post is expected to lay off dozens of staffers this week, Status has learned.
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
The Athletic's editorial staff urges NYT management to recognize them as part of the Times Guild, which would expand the union to nearly 1,700 members.  —  It's unclear whether the Times, which shuttered its own sports desk after buying the Athletic, will fight the journalists' effort to join the bargaining unit.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Google previews changes coming to Google TV, including adding Gemini, more natural voice commands, and deeper YouTube integration, rolling out later in 2025  —  Alphabet Inc.'s consumer team will give TV sets running its Google TV operating system an AI upgrade by adding Gemini to its Google Assistant voice-control system.
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Fox Corp says Tubi surpassed 97M MAUs and 10B streaming hours in 2024, but doesn't say how it calculates MAUs; 77% of Tubi viewers say they do not have cable  —  Tubi continued to gain traction in 2024, surpassing 97 million monthly active users and 10 billion streaming hours.
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Comcast plans to launch Universal Ads in Q1 2025 to simplify ad buying and win over SMB advertisers from Big Tech, and signs deals with WBD and others  —  Comcast plans to launch a new advertising platform that will make it easier for smaller businesses to buy ad time — and, the company hopes …
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence update “in the coming weeks” that “will further clarify” when it is summarizing notifications  —  Apple has said it will update, rather than pause, a new artificial intelligence (AI) …
Tara Deschamps / The Canadian Press:
Google makes a $100M payment to the Canadian Journalism Collective in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act  —  Google has sent the $100 million it agreed to pay Canadian news outlets in exchange for an exemption from the Online News Act to a journalism organization designed to distribute the funds.
Variety:
A complete list of the 2025 winners at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association  —  “The Brutalist,” a historical epic that examines the post-war immigrant experience, and “Emilia Pérez,” a musical about a drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Avataar debuts Velocity, an AI tool that generates product videos based on a product link, and says HP, Victoria's Secret, Lowe's, and others are using the tool  —  Generative AI models have reached a baseline capability of producing at least a passable video from a single image or short sentence.
Will Dunn / Bloomberg:
A look at the surge in popularity for books, podcasts, and newsletters on history, even as numbers show a drop in college students formally studying the topic  —  Books and podcasts about the past are surging in popularity, making them increasingly profitable.  —  The snow queen's castle was in pieces.
 
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