Documents show Dish creditors pushed DirecTV to increase the amount of Dish's debt DirecTV would take on, but DirecTV has refused, leading to an impasse (Financial Times)

Mediagazer: Documents show Dish creditors pushed DirecTV to increase the amount of Dish's debt DirecTV would take on, but DirecTV has refused, leading to an impasse (Financial Times)

Top News:

Politico:

Source: Trump is planning to record an interview for Joe Rogan's podcast on October 25; Harris has also reportedly been in talks to go on Rogan's podcast— Former President Donald Trump is expected to record an interview with podcasting behemoth Joe Rogan on Friday.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Wrap, Reuters, The Hill, Fox News, NBC News, HotAir, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Axios, ZeroHedge News, Barrett Media, Human Events and NPR

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Dominick Mastrangelo /
The Hill: Trump recording podcast with Joe Rogan this week

Ed Morrissey /
HotAir: Oh My: Trump Beats Harris to the Rogan Podcast

Stephen Pastis /
Forbes: Trump Will Appear On Joe Rogan's Podcast After Days Of Speculation—As Harris Talk Not Confirmed

Erin Doherty /
Axios: Joe Rogan to interview Trump on his podcast

Tyler Durden /
ZeroHedge News: Trump-Rogan Interview Set For Friday: Politico

Kenny Cody /
Human Events: Trump's media presence is a winning strategy

Variety:

TelevisaUnivision reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $1.3B, operating expenses up 1% YoY to $878M, and says its DTC business is now profitable after two years— Gains in U.S. advertising revenue and the sale of a set of broadcasting towers helped Spanish-language giant notch increase profits …

Discussion:
TVNewsCheck, MediaPost, TelevisaUnivision, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter

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Janet Stilson /
TVNewsCheck: TelevisaUnivision Reports Strong Q3

Steve McClellan /
MediaPost: IPG Reports Flat Q3 Organic Revenue, Takes $232 Million Impairment Charge

Dade Hayes /
Deadline: TelevisaUnivision Posts Small Q3 Gains, Largely From U.S. Political Ads, As Daniel Alegre CEO Era Begins

Fast Company:

Chick-fil-A announces Chick-fil-A Play, an app with family-focused original animated shows, scripted podcasts, games, e-books, and more, launching November 18— What is Chick-fil-A Play? Inside the food chain's surprisingly logical next move. — Since late last year …

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Deadline, @discussingfilm, @tvgrimreaper, Nation's Restaurant News, Delish, CBS News, TheStreet, Kotaku, Pocket-lint, Chain Store Age, Restaurant Business, PYMNTS.com, USA Today, Axios, CNBC, San Francisco Chronicle, AV Club, The Streamable, Quartz, Ad Age, RetailWire, Adweek, IndieWire, Fortune, Retail TouchPoints, PR Daily and Fox Business

Discussion:

Peter White /
Deadline: Chick-Fil-A Lifts The Lid On Entertainment Plans @discussingfilm: The Chick-Fil-A streaming service has been named Chick-Fil-A Play & will launch on November 18. The service will launch with a collection of original animated shows, scripted podcasts, cooking shows and interactive stories. [image]

Alicia Kelso /
Nation's Restaurant News: Chick-fil-A wants to connect families beyond mealtime with its new Play app

Danielle Harling /
Delish: Chick-fil-A Finally Reveals Details About Its New Streaming Service But Some Fans Aren't Impressed

Zack Zwiezen /
Kotaku: Watch Out Pixar, Chick-Fil-A Has A New Animated Series

Craig Donaldson /
Pocket-lint: What the cluck? New Chick-Fil-A streamer launches next month

Dan Berthiaume /
Chain Store Age: Chick-fil-A to launch family entertainment app

Lisa Jennings /
Restaurant Business: Chick-fil-A to launch app with original entertainment

Gabe Hauari /
USA Today: Chick-fil-A announces new entertainment app with animated shows, podcasts and games

Hope King /
Axios: Why Chick-fil-A is launching an entertainment app

Amelia Lucas /
CNBC: Chick-fil-A is releasing its own entertainment app, with family-friendly shows and podcasts

Michael Cabanatuan /
San Francisco Chronicle: Longtime North Bay steakhouse closing, to be replaced by Chick-fil-A

Mary Kate Carr /
AV Club: Behold Chick-fil-A's entry into the TV game with Legends Of Evergreen Hills trailer

Francisco Velasquez /
Quartz: Chick-fil-A is launching a family-friendly app to drive sales

Saleah Blancaflor /
Adweek: Chick-fil-A's Play App Will Launch Nov. 18

Tony Maglio /
IndieWire: Watch the Trailer for That Chick-fil-A Streaming Service's First Original Series

Chris Morris /
Fortune: Chick-fil-A rolls out its streaming service, an entertainment app with shows and podcasts

Nicole Silberstein /
Retail TouchPoints: Chick-fil-A Cooks up Something New — An Entertainment App

Game File:

Netflix shut down AAA game studio “Team Blue”, which hired industry veterans and seemed set to pursue a big-budget multi-device strategy, amid a gaming shake-up— The SoCal studio boasted senior veterans from Halo, God of War and Overwatch — One of Netflix's most intriguing video game studios is no more.

Discussion:
Variety, Deadline, Benzinga, XboxEra, VentureBeat, Comic Book, Video Games Chronicle, Game Developer, PocketGamer.biz, PCMag, Digital Trends, The Verge, @henereyg, @mr_rebs_, Kotaku, Engadget, TechRaptor, Cord Cutters News, Gameranx, Mobilegamer.biz, iPhone in Canada Blog, @carnage4life@threads.net, NewsBytes, @sophianarwitz, @nextgenplayer and @stephentotilo, more at Techmeme »

Discussion:

Jennifer Maas /
Variety: Netflix Shuts Down AAA Video Game Studio in Southern California

Dade Hayes /
Deadline: Netflix Shutters AAA Video Game Studio

Franca Quarneti /
Benzinga: Netflix Ends AAA Game Development At California Studio

Marc Deschamps /
Comic Book: Netflix Shuts Down AAA Gaming Team

Chris Scullion /
Video Games Chronicle: Netflix has shut down its triple-A ‘Team Blue’ studio

Tom Regan /
Game Developer: Netflix closes its only AAA game studio

Aaron Astle /
PocketGamer.biz: Netflix closes ‘triple-A’ studio Team Blue and cuts ties with senior hires

Kate Irwin /
PCMag: Netflix Shutters Internal Team ‘Blue’ Games Studio

Carli Velocci /
Digital Trends: Netflix closes its star-studded AAA studio before it announces a game

Henry Gilbert /
@henereyg: Every huge media company wants to make a “Triple A game” for a couple years until they see how much it actually costs, then they just go “whoopsie” in the form of layoffs @mr_rebs_: Netflix shut down their AAA video game studio “Team Blue”. Their development team included Joseph Staten, who was the creative lead for Halo. Source: https://www.gamefile.news/... [image]

Steve Dent /
Engadget: Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio

Steve Vegvari /
iPhone in Canada Blog: Netflix Shutters its AAA Southern California Game Studio Known as Team Blue

Dare Obasanjo /
@carnage4life@threads.net: This news story is a combination of two negative trends; Netflix's habit of canceling things before you hear about them and the winter in AAA gaming. Netflix hired execs from Halo, Overwatch & God of War to build a AAA game only to shut down the studio before they published any games.

Dwaipayan Roy /
NewsBytes: Netflix shuts down AAA gaming studio. Shift of strategy?

Hunter /
@nextgenplayer: Netflix has closed its AAA studio that employed: - Halo creative lead Joseph Staten - Santa Monica Studio art director Rafael Grassetti - Overwatch executive producer Chacko Sonny See more: https://www.gamefile.news/... [image]

Stephen Totilo /
@stephentotilo: SCOOP: Netflix has closed its “AAA” game studio in California, less than 2 years after opening it and making big hires Last spring, Halo vet Joseph Staten made headlines for joining Team's now gone A shake-up as new gaming bosses at Netflix settle in https://www.gamefile.news/...

Semafor:

Sources: Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong decided the Los Angeles Times will not endorse a presidential candidate; it also didn't endorse from the mid-1970s until 2008— The Scoop — The owner of the Los Angeles Times has blocked the paper from endorsing a candidate for president this year.

Discussion:
@maxwelltani, @semaforben and @dylanbyers

Discussion:

Max Tani /
@maxwelltani: Scoop: The LA Times will not endorse a candidate for president this year, a decision that was made by the paper's owner Patrick Soon-Shiong. The LA Times has endorsed Democratic presidential candidates each cycle since 2008 https://www.semafor.com/...

Ben Smith /
@semaforben: I hate to disagree with my esteemed former colleague here, but this is part of a broader accommodation to Trump by elites. (Even if it moves no votes)

Financial Times:

Documents show Dish creditors pushed DirecTV to increase the amount of Dish's debt DirecTV would take on, but DirecTV has refused, leading to an impasse— New correspondence between DirecTV and Dish creditors shows the two are stuck at an impasse — TPG's bid to form a $23bn US satellite …

Discussion:
Bloomberg

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Matt Levine /
Bloomberg: The Sophisticated Investor Test

Variety:

Rakuten TV unveils new B2B services to help content owners and distributors set up FAST channels and video apps on Tizen, webOS, Fire TV, Roku, and more— Rakuten TV, a leader in European streaming and FAST channels, will unveil its new business line, Rakuten TV Enterprise Services, from Mipcom today.

Discussion:
The Desk, Advanced Television, Broadband TV News, TVNewsCheck and WORLD SCREEN

Discussion:

Julian Clover /
Broadband TV News: Rakuten announces Enterprise Services

Mark K. Miller /
TVNewsCheck: Rakuten TV Announces ‘Enterprise Services’

Mansha Daswani /
WORLD SCREEN: Rakuten TV Launches New B2B Service

Axios:

Sources: Spotify is piloting its own supply-side platform, starting with video ad inventory, and began testing its SSP plugin with The Trade Desk last week— - Those improvements will help the Swedish audio giant compete against bigger platforms like Meta and Google for ad dollars.

Discussion:
@sarafischer and Jeff Green on LinkedIn

Discussion:

Sara Fischer /
@sarafischer: Scoop: @Spotify has been quietly piloting its own ad exchange — Trade Desk will be its first DSP partner — Focus is on video to start More on @axios: https://www.axios.com/...

Wired:

X data: Elon Musk-backed America PAC spent $166K between July 8 and October 1 to run 59 ads on X targeting swing voters in six states, yielding 32M+ impressions— America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform's ad disclosure data.

Discussion:

Bryan Metzger /
Business Insider: Elon Musk's X has made hundreds of thousands of dollars from his super PAC

Amy Curtis /
Twitchy: THIS IS WAR: Kamala Harris Working With Foreign Countries to KILL X, Silence Elon Musk and the Rest of Us

Theodore Schleifer /
New York Times: Elon Musk Donates Legal Maximum to Trump Campaign

Scott Korba /
@scottinoc@threads.net: Elon paying himself to run ads for Trump. LOL https://www.wired.com/...

Jacob Silverman /
@silvermanjacob: Elon Musk paying Elon Musk to advertise Elon Musk's preferred political candidate. https://www.wired.com/...

Blake Wolf /
One America News Network: Musk Announces $1M Giveaway Per Day To America PAC Petition Signees

The Guardian:

Penguin Random House, UMG, and SAG-AFTRA join 11.5K+ signatories of an open letter saying the “unlicensed use of creative works” to train AI must not be allowed— Statement comes as tech firms try to use creative professionals' work to train AI models

Discussion:

Raquel ‘Rocky’ Harris /
The Wrap: Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, Rosario Dawson Among 11,500 Creatives Who Warn of AI's ‘Major, Unjust Threat’

Natasha Lomas /
TechCrunch: Thousands of creatives sign petition against AI data scraping

Ashley King /
Digital Music News: Thom Yorke, Björn Ulvaeus, Max Richter, Billy Bragg Among 11,500+ Creatives Demanding ‘AI Training Guardrails’

Danny Gallagher /
Engadget: More than 10,500 artists sign open letter protesting unlicensed AI training

Martin S. /
Martin S. on LinkedIn: The foundational thrust of this argument has not yet sunk in where it needs to. Whitehall is apparently divided. …

Juliann Ventura /
The Hill: Thousands of actors, artists call AI ‘major, unjust threat’

Chris Deville /
Stereogum: Radiohead, Robert Smith, Billy Bragg, & More Sign Statement Protesting “Unlicensed Use Of Creative Work” In AI Training

Nitasha Tiku /
Washington Post: More than 10,500 actors, musicians, authors protest tech's AI data grab

Dan Conway /
The Bookseller: Trade bodies join 10,500 creators to condemn unlicensed training of AI models

Axios:

OpenAI and Microsoft announce a $10M AI local news project operated by the Lenfest Institute, starting with five US metro news organizations— - “The scale, we think, is significant,” he added. … - The new program is being driven in partnership with The Lenfest Institute's Local …

Discussion:
The Verge, The Wrap, VentureBeat, @lenfestinst, @sarafischer, @jjaron, @lenfestinst, The Lenfest Institute … and Digital Scholarship

Discussion:

Michael Nuñez /
VentureBeat: Microsoft's new AI agents set to shake up enterprise software, sparking new battle with Salesforce @lenfestinst: Direct funding and software and enterprise credits totaling up to $10 million will be awarded to @WBEZ/@Suntimes, @Newsday, @StarTribune, @PhillyInquirer, and @seattletimes. Learn more about their projects: https://www.lenfestinstitute.org/ ...

Sara Fischer /
@sarafischer: NEW: @OpenAI & @Microsoft are jointly funding a $10M AI local news project managed by @lenfestinst —$5M funding for fellowships, $5M credits for OpenAI and Azure products —No data licensing deal, just funding experimentation/fellowships More on @axios: https://www.axios.com/...

Jacob Aron /
@jjaron: Local news is (well, should be) all about being out and about on your local beat, how is $5m of AI credits going to help you generate local news stories when the AI has no way of gathering local information?

@lenfestinst:
Today we're announcing a new partnership with @OpenAI and @Microsoft to launch The Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative & Fellowship to help local news orgs use artificial intelligence to drive business sustainability and innovation https://www.lenfestinstitute.org/ ... The Lenfest Institute for Journalism: Lenfest Institute, OpenAI, and Microsoft announce $10 million AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program for US metro news organizations

Charles W. Bailey, Jr /
Digital Scholarship: “Microsoft and OpenAI's Close Partnership Shows Signs of Fraying”

The Streamable:

Fubo announces that FanDuel Sports Network, NBA League Pass, and Paramount+ with Showtime are now available without requiring a base channel plan purchase— FanDuel Sports Network, NBA League Pass and Paramount+ with SHOWTIME are now avaible through Fubo regardless of whether you buy a base channel plan.

Discussion:
Light Reading, Digital Trends, Awful Announcing, Cord Cutters News and Streaming Better

Discussion:
Light Reading: Aiming to be a super-aggregator, Fubo has begun to sell access to Paramount+ With Showtime, NBA League Pass and FanDuel Sports Network without requiring its base channel plans. #pressrelease

Phil Nickinson /
Digital Trends: Fubo shakes up subscriptions with free and premium options

Andrew Bucholtz /
Awful Announcing: Fubo launches standalone streaming options with FanDuel Sports Network, Paramount+ with Showtime, and NBA League Pass

Luke Bouma /