Matthew Keys
The Walt Disney Company has filed a tortious interference lawsuit against Google-owned YouTube for poaching a top sports executive while the two sides were in the middle of negotiating a new carriage deal.
Steve Herman is retiring for Voice of America to become the executive director of a new journalism unit at the University of Mississippi.
The Freedom of Press Foundation claims it owns Paramount stock, and will file a derivative lawsuit if the company settles a news distortion case brought by President Trump last year.
The sports-focused streamer filed a request with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board last year seeking a review of Dish’s adaptive bitrate patents.
Mark Rasch, an attorney representing ex-journalist Timothy Burke, took full responsibility for the issue; earlier, a judge overseeing Burke’s case, said his attorneys were “unprofessional.”
Mozilla will wind down Fakespot in the coming weeks, and shut down Pocket in early July.
The former worker says the Wikimedia Foundation ended her employment after she complained about her boss’ alleged abuse.
Dish Network is hoping to win over rural and small-town Americans with its satellite-based TV service — and it is calling out DirecTV as part of a new marketing campaign.
NBC and Versant have approached Major League Baseball about taking over ESPN’s package of Sunday evening games.
Commercial-free streaming is available through a separate add-on that costs $3 per month or $36 per year.
Optimum customers will lose access to Spectrum News, while Spectrum customers will no longer have News 12.
Linear channels from Televisa-Univision will be distributed via Hulu with Live TV, and Disney will bundle its service with Vix in Mexico.