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4:20 AM ET, November 20, 2025

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Reuters:
The FCC opens a review of agreements between national networks and local TV stations, including about rules controlling how stations preempt network programs  —  - FCC reviews network-affiliate agreements after Trump's ABC license comments  — FCC to ask whether national broadcasters …
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Trump calls for ABC to lose its broadcast license and says Brendan Carr “should look at that” after an ABC reporter asked questions about Khashoggi and Epstein
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Variety:
Sources: Paramount Skydance formed a consortium with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds to bid $71B for WBD; Paramount denies the claim
Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years  —  Major League Baseball announced its new TV deals with NBC, Netflix and ESPN on Wednesday, restructuring its broadcast future.
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
All four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired  —  Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts.
Paul Roberts / Seattle Times:
Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen plans to step down December 31 after four decades, to be succeeded by his son, Ryan Blethen; Alan Fisco will become CEO  —  Ryan Blethen will serve as the next publisher of The Seattle Times, the daily newspaper his great-great grandfather founded in 1896, the company announced Wednesday.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users  —  Feature debuts after streamer introduced text-based AI recaps last year … Now Amazon is using AI to add sight, sound and motion to the mix.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools  —  The world's largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service …
Discussion: Reuters and NextBigWhat
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Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in
Defector:
Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet  —  Purpose of this report  —  Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025.  It is a great honor, and something of a burden …
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Rachel Behrndt / WFAA-TV:
Hearst plans to lay off 26 people at The Dallas Morning News, outsourcing print page production; the Dallas News Guild says the action violates its contract  —  Nearly two months after officially acquiring the paper, Hearst will lay off 26 people at the Dallas Morning News, the paper confirmed Wednesday.
Jin Yu Young / New York Times:
The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in “uncharted waters”  —  A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher's books because they had A.I.-generated covers.
 
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Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times:
AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
The Olivia Nuzzi comeback shows everything that is wrong with modern media, where personal branding, access trading, and controversy trump credibility
Emma Roth / The Verge:
A US federal judge denies Disney's request to block Sling TV's one-day pass that allows streaming of live content, saying Disney didn't prove “irreparable harm”
Steven J. Horowitz / Variety:
Spotify expands Song Credits to include all contributors to a track, like engineers and mixers, and launches SongDNA, a map showing connections between songs
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Bloomberg Media says it has added 100K+ subscribers over the past year and is nearing 700K paying readers and viewers, and reports revenue up 7% YoY in 2025
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Christoph Schneider, Prime Video Germany's Country Director since 2022, is leaving Amazon after 13 years due to an internal restructure that eliminates his role
Emine Sinmaz / The Guardian:
NYT says it will not renew Larry Summers' contract as a contributing writer for its Opinion section, after the publication of his emails with Jeffrey Epstein
Krishani Dhanji / The Guardian:
ABC MD Hugh Marks criticizes attacks on the Australian broadcaster as “opportunistic” over claims its Four Corners program distorted Trump's January 6 speech
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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph over an alleged relationship with another employee, who is no longer at the lab, in summer 2025

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
TrendForce: data centers will use 70%+ of the high-end memory chips all manufacturers will produce in 2026, with little new manufacturing capacity until 2027

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:
Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft
 
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