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8:55 AM ET, May 25, 2026

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Michael Schneider / Variety:
CBS issued takedown notices to YouTube users over Stephen Colbert's return to public access series Only in Monroe, but says it will stand down after outcry  —  Yes, it's true, Paramount/CBS had been issuing takedown notices to YouTube users who were uploading bootleg copies …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Senate Democrats announced plans last week for new legislation to restore the independence of Stars and Stripes, including mandating a civilian publisher  —  THE SCOOP  —  Democrats are trying a new strategy to push back against new restrictions the Pentagon has placed on its longstanding in-house media outlet.
Discussion: Fox News
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
eMarketer: live sports TV ad spend in the US will top $20B in 2027 and hit ~$25B by 2030, growing 27% from 2026 to 2030, 4x the rate of the overall TV ad market  —  Live sports advertising is set to become a more than $20 billion business in 2027, growing far faster than the broader television market …
Alice Brooker / Press Gazette:
French political title Contexte, which generates 100% of its revenue from subscriptions, reports a €268K net profit for 2025, its first profit without subsidies  —  Title offers in-depth political coverage entirely funded by subscriptions.  —  After a year of slowing down investment …
Discussion: Contexte
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Love Island brought Peacock ~2M new subscribers in 2025, a rare bright spot after ~$1B in recent losses; Comcast says Peacock has 46M subscribers  —  Reality-dating show ‘Love Island USA’ got off to an unremarkable start, then scorched in season seven.  Can it heat up another summer for Peacock?
Marcelo Cajueiro / Variety:
Sofa, a Brazilian TV network, plans to launch 16 free ad-supported channels on YouTube, in Spanish and Portuguese in Brazil, Latin America, the US, and Portugal  —  The package includes channels with films and series dubbed into Spanish and Portuguese and selected through curation; channels will have TV ads inserted via DAI technology
John Koblin / New York Times:
Nielsen preliminary data: the final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert drew 6.7M viewers, the biggest audience for the show since an episode in 2016  —  The total tripled his usual audience this season.  But it is only about half of what Jay Leno and David Letterman attracted for their final episodes.
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Kierra Frazier / CBS News:
After 11 years and over 1,800 episodes, Stephen Colbert hosted The Late Show's finale, which ran 17 minutes longer than usual, ending the 33-year franchise
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
The MPA and the Streaming Innovation Alliance blast Canada's CRTC for adopting rules forcing streamers to contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to Canadian content  —  The CRTC on Thursday ordered American digital platforms to contribute 15 percent of their Canadian revenues …
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Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
GLAAD and more than 40 advocacy groups submit a public comment calling the FCC's proposed LGBTQ TV warning label “unnecessary, unhelpful and discriminatory”  —  More than 40 advocacy groups warn that such a move would be “unnecessary, unhelpful and discriminatory,” …
Discussion: Deadline
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
NYT publisher AG Sulzberger criticized President Trump's incursions on press freedom and chastised some news outlets for capitulating to the president  —  Sulzberger reprehended publications he said have settled “winnable cases” with the president, refocused their editorial pages away …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
The FCC opens up public comment on whether ABC's The View qualifies as a “bona fide news program” and is therefore exempt from equal time requirements  —  FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the public comment period on Friday, with filings due by June 22 and replies by July 6.
 
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Variety:
Prediction markets are spoiling reality TV shows, as Kalshi had the winner of Survivor 50 at 97% odds by the finale; Kalshi is looking at ways to avoid spoilers
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Five guilds representing workers at Hearst newspapers in New York, Connecticut, Texas, and California have filed formal complaints for unfair labor practices
Kathleen Floyd / Washington-Baltimore News Guild:
Politico shuts down two AI-driven products following a November 2025 arbitration ruling that found they violated the union's collective bargaining agreement
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Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Critterz, a feature-length AI cartoon, missed its planned 2026 Cannes Film Festival debut after OpenAI discontinued its Sora video generation tool in March
 

 
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Kate Conger / New York Times:
Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40%

Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist:
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue
 
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