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4:05 AM ET, July 7, 2026

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sky agrees to acquire ITV's TV business for £1.6B, uniting the UK's two largest commercial broadcasters; ITV says shareholders will receive £950M from the deal  —  Combination will leave US media group Comcast in control of a broadcaster that reaches 21mn households
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Sky strikes a £2.1B output deal with ITV Studios, ITV's production arm, until 2032; ITV Studios is not part of Sky's deal to acquire ITV's TV network  —  Sky has finally sealed a £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) deal to acquire ITV's television network operations.
The Hollywood Reporter:
The Sky-ITV deal raises questions about US ownership of the UK's largest commercially funded free-to-air network and a key part of its cultural landscape  —  The acquisition — which will combine the U.K.'s biggest free-to-air commercial networks with its biggest pay-TV network …
Alex Ritman / Variety:
AI-focused studio Particle 6 plans a full-length feature film to be led by the AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, as a hybrid production using film and TV professionals  —  Tilly Norwood, the AI “actor” who sparked a frenzy of anger in Hollywood and across the wider industry in late 2025, is set to front her first feature film.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is studying its data to see why viewers quit its shows after S1, with some shows seeing a 30%-70% S2 drop, as it faces a quarter without hits  —  Netflix's biggest hits are losing more than half of their audience after one season  —  Good afternoon from Los Angeles.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Analysis: ABC's The View hasn't featured a single candidate running in a competitive midterm race since the FCC launched an “equal time” rule probe in February  —  THE SCOOP  —  The Federal Communications Commission has already changed the programming of one of television's …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Reddit says its AI-powered content moderation systems caught 25K “spammy posts and comments” per day in Q1, reducing users' exposure to such content by 20% YoY  —  Reddit Inc. is battling a new kind of spam: stealth marketing content created by brands that want to get mentioned …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Vista Equity and Quinti made a takeover bid for Criteo that values the French ad tech company at a 50%+ premium to its stock price in recent weeks  —  Vista Equity Partners and the investment firm Quinti Capital have teamed up on a takeover offer for French advertising-technology company Criteo SA …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Versant agrees to acquire Full Swing, a sports tech company best known for its advanced golf simulators, tracking, and analytics software for $530M in cash  —  The tech company, best known for its advanced golf simulators, will expand the Golf Channel owner's presence in the tech and analytics space.
Anna Tobin / Press Gazette:
An interview with Le Monde CTO Paul Laleu about “fiercely defending” the French outlet's journalism from AI bots, including by generating infinite content mazes  —  French newsbrand Le Monde is “fiercely defending” its journalism from AI bots that don't offer a value exchange while still letting the “good bots” in.
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
A New Jersey judge ordered New Brunswick Today to remove surveillance footage of a school lockdown and barred the outlet from writing about the event  —  A New Jersey judge ordered New Brunswick Today to remove the video and barred it from writing about the episode, alarming First Amendment advocates.
Discussion: @freedom.press and Straight Arrow
 
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Fanny Potkin / Reuters:
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Reuters:
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