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2:30 PM ET, April 30, 2026

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says there was no “pressure from the outside” on the agency leading to an early review of ABC's TV broadcast licenses  —  Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the FCC, claimed there was no White House pressure on him to make the unprecedented …
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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 …
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.
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New York Times:
Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for creating ads, translating copy, targeting, bidding, measuring results, and more
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 …
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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”
Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
UMG artists will receive a share of the proceeds from UMG's Spotify stock sale, regardless of debts; WMG paid out $126M to artists from its 2018 stock sale  —  Years ago, as part of her negotiation process to sign with UMG, Swift demanded that the company pay out artists …
Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
A Texas court stays the turnover of Infowars to the official who agreed to license it to The Onion; Sandy Hook families will seek emergency relief from courts  —  “[This] just warms my heart and still gives me faith in America and our legal system,” the Infowars founder adds
Riddhi Setty / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at fights by journalists at McClatchy, ProPublica, EdSource, and the NYT to shape their newsrooms' policies around the use of AI  —  Journalists across the United States are fighting for contracts that address AI use: “We don't want it to be done in our name, literally.”
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Digital Content Next files an amicus brief in support of Amazon's Perplexity lawsuit, saying AI agents' unregulated access to content threatens news outlets  —  Case centres on use of AI agents that access content while cloaked as human users.  —  Major digital news publishers in the US …
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Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard:
Semafor announces a two-day conference, Silicon Valley & the World, in November in the Bay Area, with an advisory board including Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella  —  Davos by the Bay?  —  That's what the leaders of Semafor, the digital media and events company, seem to have in mind …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Analysis: in 2025, total UK ad spend grew 6.4% YoY to £46.7B; of that, £31B went to Google, Meta, and Amazon, and £1.6B went to magazines and news, down 5.1%  —  Three US tech giants accounted for two thirds of every pound spent on advertising in the UK last year.
Hua Hsu / New Yorker:
How The Fast and the Furious franchise, which grossed $7B+ across 10 films, tells the story of Hollywood, pioneering diverse casting and technical innovations  —  The Marvel Cinematic Universe is often held up as the exemplar of the Hollywood mega-franchise.  The “Fast” movies may have been just as influential.
 
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix starts rolling out its new Clips vertical video feed as a separate tab in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, India, and four other countries
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to get sucked into an infinite scroll of videos on school-issued devices
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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
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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
 

 
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present

Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading

Bloomberg:
Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studios in Japan, such as Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio
 
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