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Interesting stories that won’t waste your time. The Desk covers tech, media, telecom, streaming, etc. Posts by @MatthewKeysLive | news @thedesk .net

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One late-night show, "Gutfeld!" on Fox News Channel, will continue producing episodes and isn't affected by the writers strike because its writers aren't covered by the striking union
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Some scary moments during a match between the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees on Wednesday after YES Network cameraman Pete Stendel was struck in the head by the ball. (Video: Prime Video / MLB)
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Lachlan Murdoch says USFL doing "well" for Fox, will continue to invest in that business with NBC over the long-term. $FOX
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Netflix executives today.
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Alternate angle of the errant throw that struck YES Network cameraman Pete Stendel during the matchup between the Orioles and the Yankees on Wednesday. (Video: MASN/MLB)
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New prices starting in October: Disney+ (ads): $8/month Disney+ (no ads):$14/month Hulu (ads): $8/month Hulu (no ads): $18/month ESPN+: $11/month Hulu (Live TV): $77/month Hulu (no ads/Live TV): $90/month Hulu & Disney+ Bundle: $10/month Hulu & Disney+ Bundle (no ads): $20/month
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Eyewitness of the Week, courtesy Florida television station WWSB.
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Local ABC, NBC and CBS stations have interrupted daytime (West Coast) and early evening (East Coast) programming to carry breaking news coverage of former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal indictment.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger says company is taking that bundle that offers Hulu with Disney Plus and turning it into a single app, so consumers don't have to leave Hulu to watch Disney Plus and vice versa. But Hulu and Disney Plus will also exist as separate apps. $DIS
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VIDEO: WFAN's Gregg Giannotti of "Boomer & Gio" goes on impassioned rant after caller says he should handle mental health issues by "sucking it up." [WFAN/CBS Sports]
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Upstart cable network @NewsNation trying to differentiate themselves tonight by counting down the hours until everyone on the OceanGate submarine is presumed to have suffocated to death.
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@uspresstracker Update on this...
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CNN lost so many viewers after its Trump town hall event that it's now being beaten in the ratings by Newsmax
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The Roku Channel becomes the first free streaming TV platform to offer local news content from all four network-owned station groups (ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC) tip @mediagazer
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One of our stories was recently picked up by a foreign news outlet, whose reporter accidentally used an errant translation of our name. Hello to all our new readers in South Korea, from your friends at "The Counter."
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Don Lemon once threatened former CNN anchor Kyra Phillips with an ominous text message he thought was anonymous: "Now you've crossed the line, and you're going to pay," he wrote after Phillips was assigned to cover conflict in Iraq, a gig Lemon wanted.
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Sinclair will close at least five local newsrooms this month, and several others in the coming months, a source familiar with the strategy told The Desk on Monday tip @mediagazer
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FCC fines Jacob Wohl, John Burkman $5 million over illegal robocalls that tried to scare voters from mailing in ballots two months before the 2020 presidential election tip @techmeme
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Garth Brooks ditches SiriusXM for @TuneIn , will launch new streaming radio channel there this summer
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New York is the only state in the country with a blanket ban on cameras in the courtroom, which means the criminal case against former U.S. President Donald Trump won't be televised. #TrumpIndictment
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Sinclair's Diamond Sports owes millions to Arizona Diamondbacks, Buffalo Sabres and DirecTV, bankruptcy documents reveal. tip @mediagazer
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#BREAKING : Amazon says Prime Day will take place July 11 and July 12, 2023. $AMZN
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Hawaiian Telcom files FCC complaint against Nexstar ( @NXSTMediaGroup ), accusing the broadcaster of engaging in bad-faith tactics during negotiations for a new contract to carry KHON, NewsNation and other channels
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#BREAKING : Australian judge tosses defamation lawsuit brought by businessman Ben Roberts-Smith in major win for Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Canberra Times tip @mediagazer
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Radio broadcaster Alpha Media replaces its midday host at Portland's KBFF with an AI-powered product that sounds just like her.
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NEW: Nielsen ratings show CNN went from 3.1 million total viewers during Trump town hall to 538,000 viewers during the same time slot on Thursday (just one day later). HGTV beat CNN in the ratings Thursday.
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Twitter owner Elon Musk told NPR's @BobbyAllyn that the platform has a policy of reassigning an account's username if it doesn't regularly post. That's wrong. Twitter has no such policy. It only requires users to log in every 30 days to be "active."
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Elon Musk deletes tweet about removing Twitter block feature
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#BREAKING : FEMA says it will coordinate with the FCC to carry out a nation-wide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts system (WEA). The test is scheduled for Wednesday, October 4 at 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time.
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Project Veritas CEO resigns after finding “strong evidence of past illegality” Full story here ⬇️
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"I will always have a hard time understanding how one mistake in a 20-year broadcasting career is cause for termination, but I know something better is in my future," Glen Kuiper said hours after his firing by NBC Sports.
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#BREAKING : Former Oakland Athletics announcer Glen Kuiper releases statement Monday evening about his termination from NBC Sports
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Twitter has quietly updated an inaccurate "state-affiliated" label on the main account of @NPR . The label now claims NPR is "government-funded," which is grossly misleading.
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Twitter bans Wired reporter Dell Cameron after he wrote a story about how someone hacked Matt Walsh's account earlier in the week.
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#BREAKING : Audacy returns "Live 105" to KITS-FM 105.3 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area
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. @ACAConnects CEO @GRANTatACA is criticizing plans by Fox, ESPN and WBD's TNT Sports to launch a sports-inclusive streaming service: "The ‘house of cards’ in the video marketplace continues to wobble." $FOX $WBD $DIS
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The popular news aggregate NewsBreak published a story over the weekend that claimed Los Angeles radio station KNX had stopped airing its news programming on its AM radio signal. The story was written by AI tools. And it was 100 percent false.
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Nissan marketing: Hey, you know LoFi Girl? Google: Yeah. Nissan: We want to do that, but let's throw in a few Nissan logos. Google: Done. Internet: This is the greatest thing ever.
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Apple says the next iteration of its MacOS operating system will be called "Sonoma," a nod to the Northern California wine region.
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President Joe Biden will be the interview guest on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" Monday evening.
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#BREAKING : Fox Corporation's streaming service Tubi registers on Nielsen's "The Gauge" report for the first time.
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#BREAKING : Nexstar launches internal investigation over anti-LGBT memo penned by @WOODTV assistant news director; station employees say the memo was written at the urging of the newsroom's top news executive, Stanton Tang
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Sinclair bids farewell to Stadium, will launch The Nest Read more ⬇️
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YouTube TV will offer NFL Sunday Ticket bundle with Max
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Talk about attention to detail! The producers of the 1996 film "Independence Day" commissioned nearly an hour of news broadcasts to run in various scenes, some of which came from actual TV channels.
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Christiane Amanpour is one of the few CNN OGs left, a consummate journalist through and through — and, at this point, probably too honorable for the network.
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Amanpour says she disagrees with the Trump town hall and had a "very robust exchange of views" with CNN boss Chris Licht over the matter. To the audience, she says, "I can only hope that your trust in us might have been shaken, but not shattered."
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A small note from The Desk, as it appears in the sidebar of the front page on our website.
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T-Mobile will acquire Mint Mobile for up to $1.35 billion, giving hackers even more personal data the next time the Magenta wireless carrier suffers a data breach.
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The hashtag #TrumpIndictment is a trending topic on Donald Trump's social media platform, Truth Social.
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Revisiting our @TabloTV ahead of the Super Bowl. Want to watch the big game on your phone? Tablet? Multiple smart TVs? Don't want to pay a monthly fee to do it? Tablo might be for you.
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Does AM radio really need saving? The answer is, probably not, and no one can definitively prove otherwise. tip @mediagazer
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#BREAKING : Federal prosecutors issued search warrant against Twitter for information connected to an account used by former U.S. President Donald Trump, court documents reveal.
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The wildfires in Hawaii have destroyed critical telecommunications equipment, adding to challenges faced by residents, businesses and first responders there. ( @lindahardesty for @fiercewireless )
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Twitter's source code was on GitHub for more than a month before the social media website noticed it, according to documents reviewed by The Desk
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SCOOP: DirecTV begins offering a limited number of customers access to a new streaming device called the Gemini Air, which could one day replace its current Android TV-powered device for DirecTV Stream
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Nielsen data shows the debut airing of “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” on Monday grabbed just 83,000 viewers in the key demo of adults between the ages of 25 to 54. The inaugural episode was beaten in the ratings by repeat airings of "SpongeBob" and "The Golden Girls."
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A California bill that would allow news publishers to charge Facebook and Google for news links has been put on hold until at least the 2024 legislative session
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Wildfires destroy telecom equipment, adding to challenges in Hawaii
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NPR is using its recent decision to break up with Twitter as a fundraising opportunity. This is an e-mail that was sent earlier today to listeners who use their NPR One app.
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Sam Zell showed open contempt for journalists and wanted to turn the Tribune Company into a content farm, but couldn't pull it off and wound up driving the media firm into bankruptcy. And now, like his career as a media magnate, he's dead.
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Did anyone else find the Super Bowl ads to be underwhelming?
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First song played on the new Live 105: "Welcome to Paradise" by Oakland natives Green Day.
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TV, radio still impacted after destructive Typhoon Mawar in Guam
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#BREAKING : DISNEY SAYS IT WILL REMOVE CONTENT FROM DISNEY PLUS THIS YEAR, IMPAIRMENT CHARGE OF $1.5 BILLION TO $1.8 BILLION EXPECTED... $DIS
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Charlie Ergen, 2008: We're spinning off Echostar from Dish Network so both companies can grow on their own merits. Charlie Ergen, 2023: So, yeah, about that... $DISH
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Disney says company will launch new "super app" that marries Hulu and Disney Plus content into a single experience. Company will continue to maintain separate Hulu, Disney Plus and ESPN Plus apps. $DIS
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Peacock will stream EVERY 2024 Olympic event LIVE, marking the first time the games and related coverage will be available to stream without a cable or satellite subscription. $CMCSA
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MLB Network still not available on YouTube TV
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Roku Channel starts offering local news from CBS, Fox stations
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Harvard's Nieman Lab shuts down "Fuego" Twitter robot after social media company asks them for $42,000 a month for API access
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Roku CEO Anthony Wood says TiVo not a real competitor in the TV OS wars, says manufacturing own smart TV sets will lead to innovation that helps third party ODMs like TCL, etc. $ROKU
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Twitter's plan to charge for access to its API has impacted accounts used by the National Weather Service and other organizations used to publish weather-related emergency notifications.
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Two years ago, Spotify was ready to deploy a premium tier of service with higher quality audio streams and a higher price tag to boot. But those plans were spoiled when Apple Music included better audio streams without charging streamers more.
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Former FCC chairs will speak at @ACAConnects Summit Dinner later this month.
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NEW: Lions Gate says Starz added 700,000 subscribers during the first three months of the year. $LGF
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ICYMI: Skydance pursues deal to acquire Paramount parent company Read more ⬇️
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How to cancel your Dish Network subscription after last month's cyberattack
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Major League Baseball will offer Arizona Diamondbacks games for FREE online through mid-July, while also distributing the games on cable, DirecTV and Fubo through the end of the season.
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CNN has new lower-third graphics across its domestic programming. The last show to use the old graphics was "CNN Newsroom" overnight; "Early Start" kicked off the new graphics.
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You know @TabloTV is getting serious when they hire @JessePalmerTV and @EmmittSmith22 as celebrity pitchmen. Watch the new "It's not fantasy, it's reality" spots right here... Read more:
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@stetsondoggett Is that your phone number?
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ICYMI: Verizon loses 62,000 Fios TV customers, sees gains in fixed wireless broadband - Verizon Home Internet, which works on the company's 5G network, crossed the 3 million customer mark for the first time. Read more ⬇️
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Texas, California and Missouri will get the most money from the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program in 2023, the White House and U.S. Department of Commerce said on Monday.
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The Desk was the first news outlet to report on Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News, beating every business news outlet on the web. The Desk: 11:34 AM ET CNBC: 11:37 AM NYTimes: 11:41 AM WSJ: 11:44 AM Reuters: 11:52 AM
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Charter offers Spectrum customers free access to Peacock
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