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4:50 AM ET, April 30, 2026

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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
The NAB's CEO says the FCC's “nearly unprecedented request” for Disney to reapply for TV licenses is contrary to established principles and creates uncertainty  —  In a statement Wednesday, the head of the top industry trade group said Carr's move to initiate an early review …
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US FCC officially orders early license reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations, in LA, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, and more  —  The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday ordered early license reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations in a major escalation …
New York Times:
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro faced several setbacks since taking over, and must now guide the company through federal regulatory review of ABC's station licenses
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025  —  Time spent viewing on YouTube, the internet's most massive video platform, keeps growing at a healthy clip — and with it …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta reports Q1 family DAP up 4% YoY but down 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia  —  Meta shares fell about 7% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported lower-than-expected capital expenditures, or capex, and missed on user growth.
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Meta:
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $56.31B, net income up 61% to $26.77B, says “scrutiny on youth-related issues” and trials may “result in a material loss”  —  Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon executives, including MGM Studios head Mike Hopkins, have discussed rebooting The Apprentice for Prime Video, with Donald Trump Jr. as the host  —  Studio executives have held internal discussions about making new episodes of reality TV show  —  First it bought the “Melania” documentary.
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Antenna: Roku's $2.99-per-month streamer Howdy hits 1M subscribers, after adding 300K subscribers in its first month and 100K+ every subsequent month  —  Streaming research firm Antenna has triangulated the numbers, adding that the low-cost service has better retention than other streaming services.
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Chartbeat data from 535 US and UK publishers shows growth in traffic from peer-to-peer sharing and push notifications in recent years, as search traffic falls  —  Push notifications and peer-to-peer sharing have grown dramatically, according to proprietary Chartbeat data shared with ADWEEK
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices  —  Parents find their kids captive to the video streaming site on their school-issued devices; for one, it was 13,000 YouTube videos in three months
New York Times:
Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for language translation, real-time changes to ad copy, and easier ad targeting  —  For years, DribbleUp, a sports equipment company, spent its own time and resources figuring out whom it should advertise its basketballs and soccer balls to on Facebook.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023  —  Custom multiview is finally here. Custom multiview is finally here. … YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Tuesday that YouTube TV is getting “fully customizable” multiview.
 
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Scilla Alecci / ICIJ:
People posing as ICIJ journalists or whistleblowers targeted Taiwanese officials and real reporters after a 2025 ICIJ investigation called China Targets
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Sky News says the Iran war has been a “breakthrough” for Sky in digital video, with high engagement for its eyewitness journalism and in-depth analysis
Charlotte Hughes-Morgan / Bloomberg:
UMG reports Q1 subscription revenue grew 12.5% YoY to €1.3B, with recorded music revenue up 8.9% to €2.25B, and plans to sell 50% of its Spotify stake
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit “and Other Stuff” and built by an early Twitter employee, debuts with ~500K restored Vine videos
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:
Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised $150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1.2B in 2025
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
The CW and ESPN agree to let ESPN stream ~800 hours of CW sports per year; the CW and Roku plan to stream CW entertainment to The Roku Channel in Fall 2026
 Earlier Picks: 
Ciara Zavala / Local News Matters:
A case study of using AI to aid election coverage at Bay City News, starting in 2024 and refining later, aiming to reduce journalists' manual, repetitive tasks
Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Leaked audio: Mathias Döpfner told Politico staff that employees who disagree with Axel Springer's values, or “the essentials”, shouldn't work for the publisher
 

 
From Techmeme:

Will Shanklin / Engadget:
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the new Siri AI's first public launch

Jason Nelson / Decrypt:
Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages

Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement
 
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