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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Comcast reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $31.92B and media revenue, including its TV networks, up 3.5% to $7.22B; Comcast lost 311K cable TV customers — Comcast topped Wall Street's fourth-quarter estimates on Thursday as revenue from the company's broadband business gave it a boost despite losing customers.
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Mike Cavanagh says Comcast is “not really running a Peacock-only strategy. We're running a broadcast-plus-streaming strategy”, as NBCU prepares a spin off — NBCUniversal executives offered one statistic during the company's Q4 earnings call that explains everything …
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast reports Peacock's Q4 losses fell to $372M from an $825M loss in Q4 2023 and revenue rose 28% YoY to $1.3B; subscribers stood at 36M, unchanged from Q3
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Wall Street Journal:
Meta agrees to pay ~$25M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg after the company suspended his accounts following the January 6 riot — The president had sued the social-media company after his accounts were suspended following Jan. 6 riot
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Court filing: Elon Musk, seeking to dismiss Don Lemon's lawsuit, blames an “invasive and charged interview” for canceling Lemon's $1.5M partnership with X — - Former CNN star is suing Musk over failed $1.5 million deal — X owner says journalist's interview led to ‘sour’ relationship
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Washington Post:
The Washington Post names Peter Spiegel as its new managing editor; Spiegel most recently was the Financial Times' US managing editor for nearly six years — The veteran, award-winning journalist will oversee the National and Local newsroom departments, including coverage of politics, national security and immigration
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Yasmin Rufo / BBC:
The BBC apologizes to staff after an internal review found employees felt unable to raise concerns about Russell Brand's misconduct during his tenure at BBC — The BBC has apologised to staff who felt they could not speak up with concerns about Russell Brand's behaviour because he was seen as …
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Letter: DMG Media plans to merge Daily Mail's print operations with MailOnline, resulting “in a number of job losses”, as it looks to boost Mail+ subscriptions — DMGT plans to merge teams to adapt business to ‘significant structural transformation’ in news industry
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Sarah Fielding / Engadget:
Netflix is expanding its partnership with WWE by offering exclusive access to the WWE 2K video games on mobile starting in fall 2025 — It follows live streaming deals with WWE. — If there are two things Netflix has been pushing over the last couple years its live sports and games.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK magazine publisher Future names its EVP of B2C Kevin Li Ying as its next CEO, succeeding Jon Steinberg, effective from March 31 2025 — Future has named its executive vice president of business-to-consumer operations and former chief technology officer, Kevin Li Ying, as its next CEO.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon hikes prices of Amazon Music Unlimited for Prime and non-Prime members by $1 to $10.99 and $11.99 per month, and Unlimited Family Plan by $3 to $19.99 — The higher prices come just a few months after market leader Spotify adjusted subscription prices of its own.
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NewsGuard's Reality Check:
NewsGuard: with news-related prompts, DeepSeek's chatbot repeated false claims 30% of the time and provided non-answers 53% of the time, giving an 83% fail rate — Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek's new chatbot failed to provide accurate information about news …
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Julia Alexander / Posting Nexus:
How Epic is transforming Fortnite into a content platform, paying $350M to creators in 2024; 36.5% of the total playtime was spent in games made by creators — What are creator made islands competing for players' attention if nothing but decentralized channels in a centralized ecosystem?
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