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Reuters:
Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight AI in an overhaul of the service, leading to an internal effort called Project Lighthouse — Jeff Bezos has identified a new, high-profile platform to help showcase the hundreds of billions of dollars Amazon (AMZN.O) has bet on artificial intelligence: Prime Video.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV — The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.
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Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Comcast reports Peacock revenue up 54% YoY to $1.9B and its adjusted EBITDA of $189M, its first-ever quarterly profit; film revenue rose 25% YoY to $3.04B — Comcast Corp. reported earnings that beat analysts' estimates on key metrics, buoyed by the first-ever quarterly profitability …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
A specialist UK tribunal awards BBC correspondent Vincent Kearney £20K in damages after MI5 and police admitted to illegally obtaining Kearney's call records — Former BBC Northern Ireland journalist paid £20,000 in damages by MI5 and PSNI. — A journalist whose communications data …
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The Guardian, The Standard and RTÉ
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Night-owned podcast network The Roost rebrands as Podium, signs Trisha Paytas, and says it reaches 50M monthly video and audio impressions — The Roost's parent, talent management and media company Night, has made the move two years after it acquired the podcast business …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Forbes Chief Content Officer and magazine EIC Randall Lane has left after joining in 2011; executive editor Kerry Lauerman will oversee editorial operations — Randall Lane, the chief content officer at Forbes, has left the business news organization. — “We can confirm that Randall Lane …
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The Wrap and @benmullin
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
WNET, parent company of New York PBS station Thirteen, names Edward O'Keefe as its new CEO; O'Keefe was previously VP at CNN and executive producer at ABC News — Mr. O'Keefe, who was previously an executive at CNN, is the chief executive of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.
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TVNewsCheck, Radio & Television …, Steve Bass on LinkedIn and Current
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
TelevisaUnivision reports Q2 revenue up 10% to $1.3B due to FIFA rights in Mexico, US ad revenue down 29% to $323.3M, subscription and licensing up 40% to $621M — TelevisaUnivision reported second-quarter financials largely shaped by the FIFA World Cup, which boosted results in Mexico …
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The Hollywood Reporter and Telecompaper
Max Goldbart / Deadline:
UK PM Andy Burnham keeping Lisa Nandy on as culture secretary renews pressure over potential streaming license fees and puts the WBD deal back in the spotlight — UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy was widely expected to change jobs when her good friend Andy Burnham became Prime Minister this week …
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The Wrap
The Hollywood Reporter:
SEC filing: Primordial Soup, Darren Aronofsky's AI film and content studio, is raising $15M in cash, selling over $11M in equity so far since July 1 — Primordial Soup, which launched last year, quietly filed with the SEC for a $15 million raise. … Earlier this month Primordial Soup Labs …
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The Wrap, World of Reel, Gizmodo, Deadline and Variety
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue up 13% YoY to $11.06B, above $10.8B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $81.63B, up from $71.34B in Q2 2025 — Video giant YouTube, one of the world's biggest entertainment businesses, continues to turn in double-digit increases in ad revenue.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says ABC's decision to not carry Trump's July 16 speech about elections live will be part of its review for ABC-owned station licenses — Are TV broadcasters obligated to carry the U.S. president's comments live on their government-licensed airwaves?
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