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The Ankler’s Sean McNulty reports that NBC and Peacock drew 6.7 million viewers for the Emmys in early Nielsen numbers, down 10% year over year but above 2022’s 5.9 million on NBC. About 500,000 viewers, or 7.5%, watched on Peacock.
Sep 17The Ankler’s Sean McNulty reports that Netflix and YouTube are teaming up with Amazon in Washington, founding a new lobbying group called the Streaming Access and Choice Alliance. TechNet leads the effort, representing Big Tech companies on programming investment issues.
Sep 17The Ankler’s Sean McNulty reports that Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a multi-billion-dollar suit against Anthropic, calling its use of their catalogs “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
Aug 31The Ankler’s Sean McNulty reports that Apple TV’s US monthly price rises $2 to $15, with Apple One climbing to $22 a month, timed just before Ted Lasso’s October 7 finale caps its highest-profile original series run.
Aug 30The Ankler’s Sean McNulty reports that Meta plans to run a full-page print advertisement in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Times pushing other companies to adopt the same restrictions it is adding to its own apps under its settlement.
Aug 27Meta agreed to pay roughly $12 billion to settle state suits over designing Instagram and Facebook to addict teens — rising to $17.1 billion if Snap, TikTok and YouTube join on similar terms. The states had sought about $200 billion.
Aug 27The Ankler’s Sean McNulty reports that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a Justice Department suit alleging it collected data on users under 13 without parental consent — a core COPPA violation.
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