• LAT Media Group reports a net loss before taxes of $48.1M in 2024, up from $30M in 2023, with a $21.5M loss in H1 2025; 50%+ of revenue still came from print (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette : LAT Media Group reports a net loss before taxes of $48.1M in 2024, up from $30M in 2023, with a $21.5M loss in H1 2025; 50%+ of revenue still came from print   —  More than half of Los...
  • ‘Ex-Appeal’: I interviewed everyone I ever slept with — here are my surprising, sexy takeaways
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    Miriam Katz a podcast where she interviews everyone she’s ever had a romantic entanglement with, from her fifth-grade first date to a strip club hookup.
  • Netflix is merging Scanline, the VFX company it acquired in 2021, with Eyeline, its virtual production and R&D unit, to form a one-stop shop for digital tools (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap : Netflix is merging Scanline, the VFX company it acquired in 2021, with Eyeline, its virtual production and R&D unit, to form a one-stop shop for digital tools   —  The streamer is merging...
  • Building A Stronger Sports Economy Through U.S. Hispanics
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Latino fans represent an audience that is not only growing quickly but also highly engaged across multiple channels and communities. For businesses, a new McKinsey report concludes, reaching Latino fans is an economic imperative, a smart...
  • NBC News Cuts About 7% of Staff
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from NYT > Media & Advertising
    The layoffs come ahead of a corporate spinoff that will formally separate the parent company of NBC News from cable networks like MSNBC and CNBC.
  • What Content Reigns in a New Media Kingdom?
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Journalist Gigi Stone Woods is moderating a Forecast 2026 panel discussion featuring MediaCo Chief Revenue Officer Brian Fisher and Audacy Chief Programming Officer Jeff Sottolano. Together, they'll reveal how legacy broadcasters are...
  • The Way You Make Me Feel: Americans Chime In On News Vibe
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    TV News Some 46% of respondents who participated in a Pew Research Center study in which they were asked how the news they get makes them feel believed they are informed either "extremely often" or "often." That's one key takeaway from newly...
  • Hebert Now ND Of TEGNA’s Indianapolis Property
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Cyndee Hebert There is a new News Director at the TEGNA-owned NBC affiliate serving Indianapolis, and she took on the role Monday, rising from Asst. News Director. 
  • Meta adds group chats to Threads with support for up to 50 followers, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia, and expands DMs to the EU (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Meta adds group chats to Threads with support for up to 50 followers, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia, and expands DMs to the EU   —  Users can add up to 50...
  • Yahoo, PubMatic, Others Form Coalition To Launch Agentic Ad Protocol
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    More than 20 companies including PubMatic, Optable, Scope3, Swivel, Classify, Triton Digital, Magnite, and Yahoo have agreed to support the Ad Context Protocol (AdCP), an open technology protocol launched today to standardize how AI...
  • NBC News cuts about 150 jobs, or about 2% of the NBC News Group's workforce, ahead of the spinoff of MSNBC and CNBC into Versant (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : NBC News cuts about 150 jobs, or about 2% of the NBC News Group's workforce, ahead of the spinoff of MSNBC and CNBC into Versant   —  The cuts come ahead of Comcast's Versant...
  • MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler reveals breast cancer diagnosis
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    The new top boss shared her diagnosis with staffers during an editorial call on Wednesday morning, MSNBC confirmed to The Post. 
  • Another Guardian link to the Keira Knightley film The Woman in Cabin 10 | Brief letters
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    Norman and Joe Shrapnel | Proficiency in English | How to Stay Married | Jilly Cooper’s Riders | What next for Venezuela? The Woman in Cabin 10, in which Keira Knightley stars as a Guardian journalist ( Report, 10 October ), was...
  • The Forecast 2026 Early Bird Is Ready To Fly Away
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Forecast 2026 With insights from Stephen A. Smith,  Curtis LeGeyt, Sean Compton, Rob Babin, MediaCo's Brian Fisher, Floyd Abrams and dozens more, the hour is now to ensure you're through the door! Secure your seat at Forecast 2026 with a deal that...
  • An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on YouTube as the future of TV, paying out $100B+ to creators, partnering with the NFL, scripted content, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on YouTube as the future of TV, paying out $100B+ to creators, partnering with the NFL, scripted content, and more   —  In two decades, the...
  • Gillian Tindall obituary
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    Writer, historian and biographer who wove archaeology, social history, myth and religion into her work The writer Gillian Tindall, who has died aged 87, wrote books that bridged the boundaries between fiction, memoir and history. Over...
  • Over 20 ad tech companies including PubMatic, Optable, and Yahoo launch the Ad Context Protocol, a new open standard to support future agentic advertising (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Trishla Ostwal / Adweek : Over 20 ad tech companies including PubMatic, Optable, and Yahoo launch the Ad Context Protocol, a new open standard to support future agentic advertising   —  A consortium of ad tech companies...
  • Denver, Agovino Partner For AI-Driven Radio Offering
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    It's a new platform that leverages AI to create distinctly different 24/7 audio formats "that are 100 percent localized for your market." It's the creation of a former Program Director turned retired radio trade industry journalist and a...
  • Olivia Nuzzi to release book detailing sexting affair with married RFK Jr.: report
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    A bombshell leak of private messages revealed an intimacy much deeper than she had previously admitted.
  • Jimmy Kimmel on Trump posting about unflattering Time cover: ‘He just couldn’t help himself’
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    Late-night hosts discuss Trump’s reaction to a magazine photo and who to blame for the government shutdown Late-night hosts talked Donald Trump ’s disdain for his own Time magazine cover and a new mandatory TSA checkpoint video starring...
  • MSNBC says President Rebecca Kutler has been diagnosed with breast cancer but she has a good prognosis for recovery and expects to be away for only a few weeks (Todd Spangler/Variety)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Todd Spangler / Variety : MSNBC says President Rebecca Kutler has been diagnosed with breast cancer but she has a good prognosis for recovery and expects to be away for only a few weeks   —  Rebecca Kutler, president of...
  • Peter O’Kill obituary
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    My husband, Peter O’Kill, who has died aged 79, was a press and television journalist. He went from Fleet Street to a successful career at the BBC, culminating as associate editor of Breakfast News. Starting at the BBC in the early...
  • MultiDyne Names A CMO, Ups Mucha To Sales EVP
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    A company known for broadcast media industry signal conversion and fiber-optic-based transport systems has hired a Chief Marketing Officer who is joining the company "on a fractional basis." At the same time, MultiDyne Video & Fiber...
  • Film And TV Production Work In L.A. Has Fallen Below Even The Level Of The 2023 Strikes
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from ArtsJournal» MEDIA
    “The decline … was led by a sharp drop in reality TV production, which recorded its second-worst quarter in the last 15 years. Any effects of the massive expansion of the California film and TV tax credit, which became law on July...
  • Edison Research Is Sold To SSRS
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    A market and survey research firm based in suburban Philadelphia has acquired one of the broadcast media's most recognized quantitative and qualitative research firms — an entity long-associated with Larry Rosin. What does this mean for...
  • Stephen Colbert Among ‘Stand With Public Media’ Gala Honorees
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    The host of CBS's soon-to-conclude late-night talk program at 11:35pm Eastern/Pacific and producer and arts advocate Evelyn McGee Colbert are among those set to be saluted at a "Stand with Public Media" Gala scheduled for November 18 at...
  • Urban One Decides When To Reveal Its Q3 Results
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    The media company superserving African American consumers has selected the date on which it will release its third quarter earnings results and hold a conference call to discuss its fiscal report card. What can Urban One shareholders and...
  • David Ellison may disclose bid for Warner Bros. Discovery in coming days: sources
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    The media mogul is preparing to finally submit an official merger bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, On The Money has learned – but don’t expect wedding bells and rose petals anytime soon.
  • DMG Media launches two social publishers to produce original content for the Daily Mail's TikTok and Instagram; its social channels have 150M followers in total (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette : DMG Media launches two social publishers to produce original content for the Daily Mail's TikTok and Instagram; its social channels have 150M followers in total   —  Daily Mail publisher...
  • GB News viewers more likely to wrongly believe net migration to UK rising, study finds
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    Research also finds majority of people are against letting politicians front current affairs programmes A larger proportion of people who frequently watch GB News wrongly believe that net migration to the UK is increasing than those of...
  • Gregg Swedberg Yields K102 Pilot’s Seat To Davis
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Radio & Television Business Report
    Since 1991, a longtime Twin Cities radio programming pro has been associated with Country "K102." Now, with iHeartMedia reduction-in-force reports permeating several radio industry trade publications, the company has confirmed that this...
  • Spotify says audiobook listeners grew by 36% in the second year since the service's launch, hours streamed grew 37%, and its catalog tripled to 500,000 titles (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : Spotify says audiobook listeners grew by 36% in the second year since the service's launch, hours streamed grew 37%, and its catalog tripled to 500,000 titles   —  The number of people trying...
  • AdImpact: the US DHS has spent $51M+ in 2025 on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border, making it the most expensive political ad campaign in 2025 (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Brittany Gibson / Axios : AdImpact: the US DHS has spent $51M+ in 2025 on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border, making it the most expensive political ad campaign in 2025   —  The most expensive political...
  • An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online (Washington Post)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Washington Post : An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online   —  An internal Google email said it...
  • Pete Hegseth’s attempt to gag journalism is a resounding failure | Margaret Sullivan
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    Hegseth wants journalists to only publish ‘explicitly authorized’ information. That is not how the free press works Tom Bowman of National Public Radio recalls one of the many times in his decades covering the Pentagon when the real...
  • Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie review – sunny, wholesome cat-obsessed tale that knows its audience
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    Kristen Wiig goes all Cruella as the evil cat lady pitted against Gabby and her grandma, Gloria Estefan, desperate as she is to get her hands on that doll’s house If you have children of the appropriate age you will be familiar with the...
  • As viewers move online, animation studios are forced to find new ways to finance their work; YouTube is emerging as a testing ground and launchpad for originals (Ben Croll/Variety)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Ben Croll / Variety : As viewers move online, animation studios are forced to find new ways to finance their work; YouTube is emerging as a testing ground and launchpad for originals   —  To reach audiences migrating...
  • 'Broadcasting' has its roots in agriculture. Here's how it made its way into media
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from NPR Topics: Media
    People gather around a large valve radio in 1940. By that point, over 80% of American households owned a radio. The word 'broadcasting' dates back centuries, and originally described a method of sowing seeds. But it took on a new meaning with the rise of radio in the 1920s.
  • Journalists to turn in press passes after news outlets reject new Pentagon rules
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from NPR Topics: Media
    Dozens of journalists will turn in their Pentagon press passes Wednesday after major news outlets said they would not sign a new Defense Department policy that put restrictions on reporting.
  • How the Pentagon's new press policy could affect military coverage
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from NPR Topics: Media
    What does the Pentagon's restrictive new press policy mean for coverage of military affairs? NPR's Michel Martin asks longtime journalist and former Defense Department spokesperson Pete Williams.
  • Taylor Swift set a new record for first-week album sales, reaching 4M+ by releasing 38 variations of Life of a Showgirl, an increasingly popular strategy (Elias Leight/Wall Street Journal)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Elias Leight / Wall Street Journal : Taylor Swift set a new record for first-week album sales, reaching 4M+ by releasing 38 variations of Life of a Showgirl, an increasingly popular strategy   —  The superstar sold over...
  • Japan says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IP, including anime, manga, and games, calling them "irreplaceable treasures" (Verity Townsend/IGN)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Verity Townsend / IGN : Japan says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IP, including anime, manga, and games, calling them “irreplaceable treasures”   —  “We are a...
  • Use trials, threaten to cancel: how to get a good deal on UK TV streaming services
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaGuardian.co.uk
    There are many options for getting better prices on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+ and Sky’s Now TV Many of the streaming services offer free trials, so you could sign up to one, binge-watch the shows everyone is talking about and then...
  • YouTube starts rolling out a "cleaner and more immersive" video player, with rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, the web, and TVs (Jay Peters/The Verge)
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Mediagazer
    Jay Peters / The Verge : YouTube starts rolling out a “cleaner and more immersive” video player, with rounded, slightly translucent on-screen buttons, across mobile, the web, and TVs   —  The...
  • Even Fox News Says No Thanks to New Pentagon Rules
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Media from Newser
    Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon , the AP reports. Fox signed on to a statement with...
  • Anna Wintour Praises New CBS News EIC Bari Weiss
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Wintour says Weiss has the makings of a great leader.
  • State Department revokes visas from 6 foreigners over vile Charlie Kirk comments
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Media | New York Post
    The State Department said foreigners who wish harm on Americans aren't welcome in country.
  • OpenAI Moves Into Erotica, Behind Age-Gated ChatGPT
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    OpenAI plans to roll out an age-gated ChatGPT for "erotica" in December to verified adult users, as part of the company's policy to "treat adult users like adults," the company's CEO Sam Altman wrote on X.
  • Microsoft Builds First In-House Image Generator
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Microsoft's first text-to-image generator designed and developed in-house marks a significant step for the company in developing its own proprietary AI models. Microsoft's image-generation models for products like Copilot and Bing Image...
  • Platforms Urge Appeals Court To Intervene In Battle Over Gambling Apps
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from MediaPost | MediaDailyNews
    Google, Meta Platforms and Apple are petitioning the 9th Circuit to immediately review a lower court decision that allowed gamblers who say they lost money on casino apps to proceed with a lawsuit.
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