News Brief
Quick stories from the technology, journalism and media industries, updated daily.
Charter’s Spectrum TV offers free access to ESPN Plus
The Disney-owned sports service can be accessed by Spectrum TV customers with certain eligible plans.
Internet outage knocks San Francisco’s ABC7 off air
KGO-TV, ABC7, was forced to simulcast its sister-station from Los Angeles for about two hours Thursday morning.
LinkedIn suffers outage one day after Facebook glitch
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social media platform favored by C-suite executives and jobseekers alike, suffered from a prolonged outage on Wednesday.
Prosecutors seek dismissal of Florida journalist’s appeal over Fox News leaks
Prosecutors have filed a motion to dismiss a legal challenge brought before a U.S. Court of Appeals by a Florida journalist who was charged with computer crimes last month.
Noah Shachtman hired by Wired after Rolling Stone scandal
The former editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone interfered with a story about a friend's child sex abuse charges, according to NPR.
Facebook bug automatically logging out some users
The issue, since resolved, also kicked people out of Threads and Instagram on Tuesday.
Sling TV expanding rewards program, offering $25,000 more in prizes
Dish Network's streaming platform Sling TV is expanding its rewards program with an additional round of $25,000 in cash and prizes.
Talk TV to go off-air in UK, will transition to online-only channel
The move was announced weeks after its flagship prime-time host Piers Morgan departed for YouTube.
Gray Television inks distribution agreements with cable, satellite companies
Gray Television says it has reached retransmission consent agreements with 70 percent of its pay TV partners.
TV NewsCheck resumes publishing, continues fundraising efforts
TV NewsCheck has restarted its publication, about three weeks after it suspended operations due to a slowdown in ad revenue.
Topic to merge with MHz Choice streaming service
First Look Media and Kino Lorber will merge their streaming service Topic into international TV platform MHz Choice this spring.
Dish continues to see losses in satellite, Sling TV customers
Dish Network and Sling TV continued to lose customers during the fourth quarter of 2023, parent company Echostar affirmed this week.