Microsoft says Bing stopped crawling Reddit after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Mediagazer: Microsoft says Bing stopped crawling Reddit after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1 (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

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Bloomberg:

Together, the NBA's deals with Disney's ESPN and Comcast's NBC are expected to generate $76B over 11 years, with Amazon paying about $1.8B annually— The National Basketball Association announced new long-term TV contract with Amazon.com Inc., spurning a last minute effort by Warner Bros. Discovery Inc …
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Alex Sherman /
CNBC: NBA says Amazon will be its new media partner, rebuffing Warner Bros. Discovery attempt to match deal

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: NBA Officially Reveals Long-Term TV Deals With Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon New York Times: NBA announces $77 billion deals with ESPN, NBC and Amazon; TNT Sports threatens to sue, per sources

Ahmad Austin Jr /
Mediaite: NBA and Amazon Agree on Broadcast Rights as TNT Lawsuit May Loom

Brian Steinberg /
Variety: Warner Bros. Discovery Says NBA Can't Reject Matching Offer: ‘We Will Take Appropriate Action’

Matt Tamanini /
The Streamable: NBA Rejects WBD's Matching Rights Claim, Confirms Deals With Amazon, Comcast, and Disney Fox News: NBA rejects Warner Bros. Discovery media rights bid; TNT broadcasts to likely cease after next season

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: NBA announces 11-year TV deal with NBC, Prime Video, ESPN

Ryan Glasspiegel /
New York Post: NBA rejects TNT's attempt to match Amazon rights deal with potential lawsuit looming

Sahil Patel /
The Information: NBA Announces $77 Billion TV and Streaming Deals with Amazon, Disney and NBCU

Mike D. Sykes /
USA Today: 3 big questions about the future of NBA on TNT after the league officially announces Amazon deal

Ben Strauss /
Washington Post: What to know about the NBA and WNBA's massive new TV and streaming deal

Bill DiFilippo /
UPROXX: The NBA Announced Its New Media Rights Deal With Disney, NBCUniversal, And Amazon @nbapr: The NBA today announced the renewal of its partnership with The Walt Disney Company and new agreements with NBCUniversal (NBCU) and Amazon under which ABC/ESPN, NBC/Peacock and Prime Video will telecast NBA games beginning with the 2025-26 season and running through the 2035-36 @wnba: It just keeps gettin' better 🤩 We have officially secured a landmark media rights deal with the Walt Disney Company, Amazon Prime Video, and NBCUniversal! https://www.wnba.com/...

Anthony Crupi /
Sportico: NBA Rejects WBD's Attempt to Match Amazon Bid

Brian Steinberg /
TVNewsCheck: Comcast Says NBC Has 11-Year Deal In Place With NBA

Dade Hayes /
Deadline: Comcast President Mike Cavanagh says NBCUniversal expects an 11-year rights deal with the NBA, starting with the 2025-26 season, will be announced “soon”

Wayne Friedman /
MediaPost: Warner Bros. Discovery Matches Amazon's NBA Deal: Sources

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The Hollywood Reporter:

The NBA declines WBD's effort to join the set of rights packages built for Amazon, Disney, and NBCUniversal, saying WBD's proposal did not match Amazon's offer— The company had proposed to match Amazon's $1.8 billion per year bid for NBA games. … “Warner Bros. Discovery's most recent proposal …

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Brian Steinberg /
Variety: NBA Rejects Warner's Bid to Stay in Basketball, Signs Deals With Amazon, Disney, NBCU

Sean Keeley /
Awful Announcing: NBA rejects Warner Bros. Discovery's matching bid, officially announces deals with Amazon, Disney/ESPN, NBCU

Emma Roth /
The Verge: The NBA's new TV deals put a lot of games on Amazon's Prime Video starting in 2025

Liam Reilly /
CNN: NBA rejects Warner Bros. Discovery's matching offer to retain games, setting up potential legal showdown

Dave Nemetz /
TVLine: NBA Signs New TV Rights Deal With NBC, Disney and Amazon, Ending Decades-Long TNT Partnership

Stephen Battaglio /
Los Angeles Times: NBA rejects Warner Bros. Discovery offer, completing media rights deal with Amazon Deadline: NBA Rejects Warner Bros Discovery Bid For Amazon; WNBA Renews Disney, Prime Video Deals & Links Up With NBCU - Update

Bill DiFilippo /
UPROXX: TNT Sports Will ‘Take Appropriate Action’ After The NBA Said It Did Not Match Amazon's Media Rights Offer

Jimmy Traina /
@jimmytraina: The most surreal aspect of the NBA rejecting WBD's offer for Amazon is that TNT will still air the NBA next season. A lame-duck Charles Barkley with a live microphone on a regular basis is gonna be something else.

John Ourand /
@ourand_puck: NBA: “Warner Bros. Discovery's most recent proposal did not match the terms of Amazon Prime Video's offer and, therefore, we have entered into a long-term arrangement with Amazon.”

Ed Ludlow /
@edludlow: Jassy on NBA Deal. 11 year deal through 2035/36. Amazon paying ~$1.8B annually

John Ourand /
@ourand_puck: TNT's full statement: “We have matched the Amazon offer, as we have a contractual right to do, and do not believe the NBA can reject it. In doing so, they are rejecting the many fans who continue to show their unwavering support for our best-in-class coverage, delivered through

John Ourand /
@ourand_puck: TNT statement..."We think [the NBA has} grossly misinterpreted our contractual rights with respect to the 2025-26 season and beyond, and we will take appropriate action."

John Ourand /
@ourand_puck: More NBA: “Our primary objective has been to maximize the reach and accessibility of our games...Our new arrangement with Amazon supports this goal by complementing the broadcast, cable and streaming packages that are already part of our new Disney and NBCU arrangements.”

Andy Jassy /
@ajassy: Couldn't be more excited about the long-term agreement we just signed with the NBA. Starting in the 2025-26 season, Prime members will be able to stream an exciting slate of regular season games, the NBA Cup in-season tournament, the entire postseason play-in tournament, first [image]

The Hollywood Reporter:

The WNBA's deal with Disney, NBC, and Amazon, which is reportedly worth ~$200M/season, includes more national telecasts and an increased global reach— The three companies, which also will carry the men's NBA, will offer more national telecasts and an increased global reach for the league.

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Engadget, The Wrap, New York Times, TVNewsCheck, The Official Home of the WNBA and Cord Cutters News

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Anna Washenko /
Engadget: NBA TV rights go to ESPN, NBC and Amazon as TNT is rejected

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: NBA Makes Its Call: Deals Set With Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon as WBD Rejected

Tania Ganguli /
New York Times: N.B.A. Announces Lucrative Rights Deals With Disney, Comcast and Amazon TVNewsCheck: NBA Rejects Warner Bros Discovery Bid For Amazon; WNBA Renews Disney, Prime Video Deals & Links Up With NBCU The Official Home of the WNBA: WNBA Secures Landmark Media Rights Deals with the Walt Disney Company, Amazon Prime Video and NBCUniversal

Search Engine Land:

Microsoft says Bing stopped crawling Reddit after Reddit updated its robots.txt file on July 1— Reddit updated its robots.txt file prohibiting Bing and some other search engines from crawling its site. — Chat with SearchBot — Reddit has updated its robots.txt file …

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404 Media

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Emanuel Maiberg /
404 Media: Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal

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404 Media:

Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others are not showing recent results from Reddit— DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

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MediaPost, The Verge, 9to5Google, @alexlmiller, @thetymonbay, @pranesh, WebProNews, The Verge, Sherwood News, @emanuelmaiberg, @aetataureate@gamedev.lgbt, @megangra, @josephfcox, Engadget, @vxunderground, @chronotope, @danielahanley, @hbkirb, @ryanorban, @orizilbershtein, Digital Trends and Hacker News, more at Techmeme »

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Laurie Sullivan /
MediaPost: Microsoft Retrains, Releases AI-Based Search With Consideration To Publishers

Alex Miller /
@alexlmiller: Reddit will no longer show up in regular search results anywhere but Google This is insane, Steve Huffman & @sundarpichai should be ashamed of themselves for doing this deal The open web has been on the brink for years and they're trying to kill it for good

Tushar Mehta /
@thetymonbay: We know Reddit's owners are crap. But this is Google just sitting on top of yet another anti-competition lawsuit. Great reporting as always by @404mediaco https://www.404media.co/...

Pranesh Prakash /
@pranesh: I had predicted this last year itself. It's foolish to think you can have exclusive licensing of content for “AI” without that harming #competition (and #FOSS) and encouraging oligopolies. That's the very purpose of exclusivity!

Emma Roth /
The Verge: Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay

Rani Molla /
Sherwood News: Google spent a mere $60 million to build the most important moat in search right now

Emanuel Maiberg /
@emanuelmaiberg: AI is causing the internet the lock down. Reddit is blocking all search engines from crawling the site, except Google, which is paying Reddit $60 million a year to scrape it for training data https://www.404media.co/...

Berserk Du Soleil /
@aetataureate@gamedev.lgbt: wow — this is wild. reddit has deindexed itself from all search engines but google, in an effort to both stop AI scraping and force search engines to pay — https://www.404media.co/...

Megan Gray /
@megangra: Surprised that this hasn't generated anticompetitive complaints Google's Exclusive Reddit Access Google (is now the only search engine that can surface results from Reddit (well also Kagi) https://www.404media.co/...

Joseph Cox /
@josephfcox: New from 404 Media: Google is now the only search engine that works on Reddit thanks to its AI deal. Try to search for Reddit results with Bing, DuckDuckGo, or a bunch of others you won't get full results. Further monopoly on valuable information https://www.404media.co/...

Will Shanklin /
Engadget: AI search engines that don't pay up can't index Reddit content @vxunderground: .@404mediaco is reporting Reddit is blocking ALL search engine crawls EXCEPT Google - which is currently paying $60,000,000/year for the right to scrape Reddit for AI training data. More information: https://www.404media.co/...

Aram Zucker-Scharff /
@chronotope: This is shitty and monopolistic of Google. In a way tho it is extremely exciting because it means that Google feels threatened in the one area it seemed to have a full lock on dominance. Alternative Search engines have become popular enough to cause Google to freak out like this.

Daniel Hanley /
@danielahanley: Exclusive deals like this one should be banned. Google could have paid Reddit for access, and Reddit could have offered those same terms to others. But Google is using a similar trick it has used with Apple: the company uses its financial firepower to knee cap its rivals.

Adam Demasi /
@hbkirb: This is shitty on Reddit's part. It makes complete sense now why they've been blocking my server. All Reddit links on The Apple Wiki have an archive. org link next to it, because every link seems “dead”. In fact, Reddit is blocking my server from confirming it's “up”.

Ryan Orban /
@ryanorban: I use DuckDuckGo and like many will add ‘Reddit’ to the end of a query if I'm looking for real product reviews, comparisons, etc. That stopped working a few weeks ago and now I know why!

Ori Zilbershtein /
@orizilbershtein: Timeline: - Google boosts Reddit in search by over 400% - Google announces a 60M deal with Reddit right after - Reddit announces it seeks to go public 48-72 hours after - Reddit blocks all scraping for competition search engines shortly after 👏Anti 👏Competitive👏Behavior

Luke Larsen /
Digital Trends: Google just gained exclusive access to Reddit

New York Times:

Doc: Rupert Murdoch wants to change his family trust to ensure Lachlan Murdoch stays in charge of the media empire; three other siblings are fighting the move— Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family's irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force.

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Utkarsh Shetti /
Reuters: Murdoch engaged in legal battle with children over succession, NYT reports

Jacob Bryant /
The Wrap: Rupert Murdoch Ignites Succession Fight to Keep Lachlan in Charge of News Empire | Report

William Earl /
Variety: Rupert Murdoch Seeks Family Trust Amendment to Leave Lachlan in Charge: Report

Cory Weinberg /
The Information: Stock Sell-Off, OneStream and AI

Jill Goldsmith /
Deadline: Rupert Murdoch Wants Lachlan To Inherit Control Of Media Empire, Sparking Legal Battle With Other Children - Report

John McQuaid /
@johnmcquaid@threads.net: Bill Barr once again takes the role of legal butler doing the dirty work for a powerful right wing mogul - this time Rupert Murdoch as he tries to ice out his more reasonable children from beyond the grave https://www.nytimes.com/...

Ann Lipton /
@annmlipton@esq.social: This is a fantastic corpgov-ESG adjacent dispute. Rupert Murdoch established a trust for his media assets to be divided equally among his kids. Now, he wants to amend it so only Lachlan has governance rights, to preserve the conservative political bent — https://www.nytimes.com/...

Jasmine Wright /
@jasjwright: This story goes sooo hard

Tom Gara /
@tomgara: Incredibly juicy details here on a behind the scenes fight over control of the Murdoch empire - Rupert went full Logan Roy and rewrote the family trust so his lib kids can't take over when he dies https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]

Paul Farhi /
@farhip: A “Succession”-like fight has quietly broken out among Rupert Murdoch and his children over control of the Fox empire after he dies. ⁦@jimrutenberg⁩ and ⁦@jonathanmahler⁩ with an excellent scoop. https://www.nytimes.com/...

Michael Roston /
@michaelroston: What a yarn by @jimrutenberg and @jonathanmahler, read the whole thing: https://www.nytimes.com/...

Chuck Darwin /
@cdarwin@c.im: Rupert Murdoch, 93, set drama in motion late last year, — when he made a surprise move to — change the terms of the Murdochs' irrevocable family trust — to ensure that his eldest son and chosen successor, Lachlan, — would remain in charge of his vast collection of television networks and newspapers. …

Jeff Jarvis /
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Succession, the sequel. — Not a joke but very serious, for evil Murdoch wants to rule (the world) from the grave. — The Secret Battle for the Future of the Murdoch Empire https://www.nytimes.com/...

Bill Barrow /
@billbarrowap: Life imitates art imitating life.

Sharon Klyne /
Sharon Klyne on LinkedIn: Impressive reporting by the Times on the machinations of Rupert Murdoch to ensure the right-wing bias of his media empire remains unchallenged when he passes on …

Matthew Sheffield /
@mattsheffield: Rupert Murdoch fighting feverishly to rule his media empire from beyond the grave by forcing his non-reactionary children to relinquish control to their right-wing brother Lachlan.

Laffy /
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social: Rupert Murdoch is locked in a secret legal battle against three of his children over the future of the family's media empire, as he moves to preserve it as a conservative political force after his death, according to a sealed court document obtained by The New York Times. — https://www.nytimes.com/...

Michael Roston /
@michaelroston: TROUBLESOME BENEFICIARY did that come out of a Dickens book? [image]

David Folkenflik /
@davidfolkenflik: Hell of a story from the kids at the NYT Rupert is in court secretly trying to undo his promise to give his four eldest children equal say in the future of the media empire - and to deliver lasting control to Lachlan. Their report: https://www.nytimes.com/... @jimrutenberg: SCOOP: Rupert Murdoch in fierce and secret court battle with three of his eldest children over the future of his media empire — a story right out of Succession w/@jonathanmahler https://www.nytimes.com/...

Michael Roston /
@michaelroston: He didn't meet with James Mudoch before he filed the papers YIKES [image]

Charlie Middleton /
Charlie Middleton on LinkedIn: Claiming the “irrevocable trust” is actually not irrevocable should create serious tax problems. But the Internal Revenue Service probably …

Phil Santiago /
@philthepill.wtf: I'M THE ELDEST BOY [embedded post]

Bloomberg:

Informa agrees to buy Ascential, the owner of the Cannes Lions and Money20/20 conferences, for ~£1.2B in cash, or £5.68/share, a 53% premium on Monday's close— Informa Plc has agreed to buy Ascential Plc, the owner of the Money20/20 and Cannes Lions conferences …

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Anna Cotterell /
Anna Cotterell on LinkedIn: Excited to share that today we announced a recommended cash offer for Ascential plc, a specialist events-led, intelligence and advisory business and owner of the Cannes Lions and Money20/20 brands

Joe Mandese /
MediaPost: Cannes Lions Operator Ascential Weighing $1.5B Bid

Paul Sandle /
Reuters: Informa to buy Cannes Lions owner Ascential for $1.6 bln

Joe Mandese /
MediaPost: Ascential, Informa Agree To Pay Shareholders Cash Dividend On Hudson MX Sale

Nagib A. /
Nagib A. on LinkedIn: Congratulations to the Informa team on its £1.2 billion recommended public offer for Ascential plc, which includes the world class Cannes Lions event to add to its global B2B platform. …

Charlotte Tobitt /
Press Gazette: Informa to buy Cannes Lions owner Ascential as it reveals price of AI deals

Raechel Thankam Job /
Reuters: UK's Ascential weighs $1.5 billion buyout offer from Informa

Variety:

A Prime Video India-commissioned report finds that India is attracting ~$6B per year in local content investments, or $4 per head vs. $370 per head in the US— Indian streaming series such as Netflix's “Heeramandi,” Prime Video's “Mirzapur” or Disney+ Hotstar's “Bad Cop,” could soon be more influential than Bollywood.

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@lucas_shaw, Bloomberg and Deadline

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Lucas Shaw /
@lucas_shaw: The fastest-growing video market in the world is... India. @soheefication https://www.bloomberg.com/...

The Guardian:

Journalists at Nine newspapers Sydney Morning Herald and the Age plan to strike during Olympics if their demands, including a higher pay rise, aren't met— Reporters will walk off job from Friday - affecting Paris Games coverage - unless union demands are met during Wednesday afternoon meeting

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Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review

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Marta Pascual Juanola /
Sydney Morning Herald: Nine CEO carries Olympic torch as journalists' strike looms

The Guardian:

Some of News Corp's most experienced journalists in Australia, including Sue Dunlevy, have been made redundant, as the outlet cuts its national reporting team— Murdoch's Australian arm has quietly slashed tens of millions of dollars in costs to counter a slow advertising market and loss of revenue from Meta deal

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@mark_melbin@mastodon.online

Variety:

San Diego's Comic-Con, from July 25-July 28, is expected to draw more than 130,000, after back-to-back pandemic cancellations and the SAG-AFTRA strike— Last year, the organizers of San Diego Comic- Con were eager to put on their annual event sans pandemic cancellations or COVID protocols …

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San Diego Union-Tribune, Forbes, @variety and AV Club

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Rob Salkowitz /
Forbes: San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Hollywood Is Back, Baby! @variety: DC Studios is largely sitting out this year's Comic-Con as co-studio chief James Gunn couldn't fit in an appearance between his directing duties on “Superman” and “Peacemaker” Season 2. But an insider says DC Studios still plans to break some news. https://variety.com/...

Drew Gillis /
AV Club: Welcome to San Diego Comic-Con 2024

Variety:

MLB launches a streaming service for MLB Network in the US for $5.99/month, no cable TV subscription required; live games will be subject to local blackouts— Major League Baseball has a new way to get fans to pay to catch the streaming action of America's pastime.

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Brian Murphy /
MLB.com: MLB Network available as standalone stream for fans

Lucas Manfredi /