The vice presidential debate between Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz drew 43.1 million viewers Tuesday night, significantly fewer than the face-off between the vp candidates in 2020, according to Nielsen. (NYT) An average of 9.1 million people tuned into CBS, which hosted the debate, followed by 7.7 million who watched on…
DirecTV Monday agreed to buy EchoStar’s satellite television business that includes Dish, capping decades of on-and-off talks to create one of the nation’s largest pay TV distributors with a combined 20 million subscribers. (Reuters) DirecTV will pay EchoStar $1 plus the assumption of debt. DirecTV is owned by AT&T and private equity firm TPG, while…
The Today couch will look a little different in 2025. Hoda Kotb revealed on air Thursday morning that she will be leaving NBC News’ flagship morning show early next year. (TVNewser) In a memo to her team–and later in an emotional on-air reveal Thursday–Kotb said her 60th birthday this summer helped trigger the departure: “I…
The former editor in chief of Hong Kong’s Stand News was sentenced to jail on sedition charges for the publication of news reports and other articles that prosecutors said tried to promote “illegal ideologies.” (The Guardian) Chung Pui-kuen, 55, was convicted Thursday alongside his colleague, former acting editor in chief Patrick Lam, 36, but the…
The defamation trial pitting Newsmax Media against Smartmatic ended the same day it began. Hours after jury selection commenced Thursday at the Leonard L. Williams Justice Center in Wilmington, Del., the network announced that a settlement had been reached in the case. (TVNewser) Smartmatic sued Newsmax–along with a host of other conservative media companies and…
X owner Elon Musk is the world’s wealthiest flag-bearer for free speech, but under his leadership, the social media platform is acceding to government requests to take down or withhold user content at a significantly higher rate than it did in the years leading up to his 2022 purchase. (WaPo) From January through June, X…
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook (Conn.) Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge. (AP) Infowars’…
Koch Inc.’s private equity arm is in ongoing talks on a bid to buy Forbes in partnership with another individual investor, sources told Axios. (Axios)
The East Coast media world was rocked by the news that political journalist Olivia Nuzzi had been suspended by New York magazine after an alleged affair with former 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy broke the news in his Status newsletter. (TVNewser) Nuzzi did not proactively disclose her…
Lance Frank was named head of communications for CBS News, Stations & Media Ventures. His promotion was announced Thursday by CBS News president and CEO Wendy McMahon and executive vice president of communications Chris Ender. (TVNewser) TikTok’s global head of marketing, Kate Jhaveri, is leaving the company at the end of September, according to a…
Axel Springer struck a deal that will see its media assets–which include Politico, Business Insider, and newspapers Bild and Die Welt–hived off into a private company with the aim of building an international digital news media powerhouse. (The Guardian) Axel Springer’s profitable classifieds businesses are to become separately held entities under U.S. firm KKR and…
TelevisaUnivision, the influential producer and broadcaster of Spanish-language television, is weighing a plan to immediately replace CEO Wade Davis, according to three people briefed on the plan who would speak only anonymously because the discussions are private. (NYT)
Macollvie Neel, editor of The Haitian Times, was ready to start her workday from home Monday when her doorbell rang. What she thought might be a delivery turned out to be more than a half-dozen police officers. “I looked and there were police cruisers outside my house,” Neel recalled Tuesday in an interview with CNN….
Some Brazilian users regained access to X Wednesday despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country’s Supreme Court–a reunion apparently resulting from the social network changing the way its servers are accessed. But the renewed access may be short-lived. (AP) The X update used cloud services offered by third parties, namely security firm…
The Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation unveiled its design for a National Mall monument honoring journalists killed in the line of duty, representing the first memorial for slain journalists on federal grounds. (The Daily Beast) The concept designs come as part of a lengthy but necessary regulatory process before the anticipated completion of the Fallen Journalists…
The owner of The Guardian confirmed that it is in talks to sell The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media. (BBC News) Tortoise said negotiations include a commitment from it to invest more than GBP25 million ($33 million) over the next five years in the editorial and commercial renewal of the title….
Thanks to the new Emmys ratings, ABC was the big winner Sunday night. According to Nielsen numbers, the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on ABC scored its highest ratings in three years, reaching 6.87 million average viewers. (ADWEEK) The evening ceremony at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles was the second go-around for the Television…
Social media giant Meta announced Monday that it is banning Russian media outlet RT, days after the Biden administration accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow’s spy agencies. (NBC News) “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT, and other related entities are now banned…
CBS News promoted Nicole Young to senior producer of 60 Minutes ahead of the newsmagazine’s 57th season. Young began her CBS News career as an intern and joined 60 Minutes in 2004. (ADWEEK)
FuboTV’s lawsuit against Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Disney over their plans to start a new sports streaming service will go to trial next fall, potentially preventing a planned launch ahead of the next football season. (Bloomberg)
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