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Disney nearly bought Twitter, but trolls stood in the way
Trolls and extremism gave Disney CEO Bob Iger pause on the company's planned acquisition of Twitter.
DAZN offers ticket purchases through streaming app in Italy
DAZN and Vivaticket are partnering on a new initiative that will allow sports streamers to buy event tickets while they watch live matches.
Spotify weighs adding music videos to service
Spotify is considering a plan that would allow its premium audio subscribers to access full-length music videos.
Sky invests £500 million in content production during 2022
The figure, which included content production across Europe, was released in Sky Group's annual impact report for 2022.
Paramount’s Pluto TV comes to Virgin Media boxes
Paramount Global's free, ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV is now available to customers of Virgin Media in the United Kingdom.
ProSieben Sat.1 elects new supervisory board
ProSieben Sat.1 installed a new supervisory board at the company's annual shareholder meeting in Unterföhring last week.
Ofcom to investigate complaints against talk shows
British television regulator Ofcom has launched investigations against a pair of political talk shows and their channels.
TweetDeck suffers outage after Twitter imposes new limits
TweetDeck users are finding the platform unreliable and broken days after Twitter issued new rate-limit policies across its website.
Nexstar error sends WPIX viewers to Dish during DirecTV spat
The only problem with that is, Dish hasn't carried WPIX-TV for months due to a similar carriage dispute.
Nexstar stations goes dark on DirecTV, AT&T U-Verse
Nexstar has forced DirecTV to drop around 200 local channels as well as the upstart cable network NewsNation.
Audacy implements reverse stock split to regain NASDAQ compliance
Audacy has carried out a reverse stock split as it seeks to regain compliance with the NASDAQ stock exchange's policies.
Skyview Networks, ABC Radio end distribution agreement
The announcement comes several months after Skyview suffered from a cyberattack that left it unable to distribute ABC Audio content for weeks.