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Quick stories from the technology, journalism and media industries, updated daily.

Roku says Weird Al parody biopic most-streamed in company’s history

Roku says its first full-length film "Weird: The Al Yankovich Story" smashed streaming records for the Roku Channel.

November 14, 2022

Disney is rolling out nearly a dozen new channels to its Hulu with Live TV service ahead of a December price increase.

November 14, 2022

Emily Chang has resigned from "Bloomberg Technology" after spending more than a decade as the program's host.

November 13, 2022

Philo suffered a short outage on Sunday as streamers tried to sign up for the service in order to watch the two-hour season premiere of Yellowstone.

November 13, 2022

Comedian Chris Rock will headline Netflix's first live-streamed event early next year.

November 13, 2022

Judy Woodruff says she will step away from the PBS NewsHour by the end of the year in order to focus on other projects.

November 12, 2022

Twitter now has three verification badges, for some reason, and there's a good chance it'll launch (or remove?) more soon.

November 11, 2022

TEGNA says it was able to renew affiliation agreements with CBS and Fox for nearly two dozen of its local broadcast stations.

November 10, 2022

Carriage fee revenue outpaced traditional advertisement revenue for at least the second straight quarter at TEGNA, the company affirmed this week.

November 10, 2022

Around 93,000 households watch NewsNation's coverage of the midterm election in prime-time, according to data reviewed by The Desk.

November 9, 2022

Comcast says it will soon allow some Peacock subscribers to access a live feed of their local NBC station or affiliate.

November 8, 2022

Twitter will soon roll out two verification labels — one you can buy as part of Twitter Blue, and one that you can't.

November 8, 2022