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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Stephen Colbert says CBS released its statement “without ever talking to me” and talk shows have long been exempt from “equal time” rules  —  On Tuesday night's broadcast of “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert slammed his home network, CBS, for releasing a statement denying …
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Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Brendan Carr confirms FCC is investigating The View for potentially violating its equal-time rule and says he was “highly entertained” by the Colbert/CBS drama  —  Brendan Carr also said the media should be “ashamed” for running claims that the FCC blocked James Talarico's “Late Show” interview
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Colbert's interview on YouTube with US Senate candidate James Talarico has drawn over 6M views as of Wednesday afternoon in the US, after it was posted Monday  —  Stephen Colbert alleged that President Trump's talk show directive kept his interview with a Texas Democratic Senate candidate off CBS airwaves …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Stephen Colbert says CBS lawyers blocked an interview with Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico, citing the FCC's equal time guidance for TV talk shows
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Pranav Baskar / New York Times:
Journalists say an AP reporter and three other journalists were detained in Cameroon while probing a secretive US program that deports migrants to Cameroon  —  An Associated Press reporter was beaten and held with three other journalists and a lawyer, two detainees said …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says, “We're going to be moving forward” with Nexstar's acquisition of Tegna, a merger that requires lifting the station ownership cap  —  The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday he supports Nexstar's proposed $3.54 billion acquisition …
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Netflix sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining WBD, Paramount, and Disney, saying “forensic evidence” shows “unauthorized derivative works”  —  With their two-page correspondence and potential legal action to follow, Netflix have linked arms …
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Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ has summoned some of the largest theater chains to private conversations about the potential impact of a sale of WBD  —  The US Justice Department has summoned some of the country's largest theater chains to private conversations about the potential impact of a sale …
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a “rolling infomercial”  —  TURNING A PAGE  —  The anchor is said to be “very, very unhappy” at the network's new policy on self-promotion.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New York Times wins three 2025 Polk Awards, including for its Trump coverage; The Boston Globe, ProPublica, AP, and Business Insider also won  —  The Times was honored for its coverage of President Trump, the abuse of housekeepers and nannies in Saudi Arabia and brutality in New York prisons.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Audible launches an “immersion reading” feature that lets readers switch between ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries  —  Only days after Spotify announced its foray into physical book sales, which included an audiobook feature that lets …
Julia Black / Vanity Fair:
OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood  —  Charles Porch's newly created role as OpenAI's VP of global creative partnerships signals the AI giant's new focus on the entertainment industry
 
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