An Indian court dismisses X's March lawsuit challenging the government's content takedown orders, ruling foreign platforms can't invoke free speech protections (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Disney executives have spent months preparing for Trump to come for Disney's broadcast licenses and are confident they would win the legal battle (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Nielsen: Jimmy Kimmel Live! drew 6.26M viewers on Tuesday, over 3x its Q2 average, despite not airing in 23% of US homes due to Nexstar and Sinclair blackouts (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Some Disney shareholders, including Reporters Without Borders, criticize Disney for suspending Jimmy Kimmel and ask it to turn over related documents (Max Tani/Semafor) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock (NBC News) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Source: UEFA is revamping Champions League media rights to let broadcasters and streamers bid in multiple markets at the same time, to attract streaming giants (David Hellier/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Source: President Trump plans to sign the TikTok deal on Thursday (Nandita Bose/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Jimmy Kimmel's 28-min return monologue gets 13M views in 14 hours on YouTube; his current most-watched monologue, on his son's health issues in 2017, has 14M (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

YouTube adds a "hide" button to let users dismiss recommendation pop-ups that appear at the end of videos, following user feedback that pop-ups were distracting (Emma Roth/The Verge) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Cloudflare expands its Project Galileo program, providing access to its Bot Management and AI Crawl Control tools for free to nonprofits and independent media (Mediaweek) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

MSNBC and Comcast-owned Sky News strike a multiyear deal to make Sky's global coverage available to MSNBC's US audiences starting Oct. 1, as NBC and MSNBC split (Brian Steinberg/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A review of Northern Irish police finds journalist surveillance wasn't widespread but finds 20 attempts to ID journalists' sources between 2011 and 2024 (Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Canadian PE firm Novacap agrees to acquire Integral Ad Science, which provides digital ad measurement and verification, in a deal valuing IAS at about $1.9B (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Meta says Instagram has hit 3B monthly users and is changing its home screen to prioritize DMs and Reels; it is testing opening directly into Reels in India (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Telemundo Studios plans a short-form vertical drama slate featuring adaptations of existing Telemundo content and original productions developed for the format (Tess Patton/The Wrap) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

New Jersey PBS will shut down on July 1, 2026, due to the federal rescission and state funding falling 75% to $250K (Mike Davis/Asbury Park Press) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Karen Attiah files a grievance via the Washington Post's labor union and submits a four-page letter to HR seeking to recover damages for her firing (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Some Australian leaders debate whether the country should use a Chinese-owned version of TikTok or one run by a Trump-allied consortium that includes News Corp (Josh Taylor/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league could begin renegotiating its media rights as soon as 2026, four years ahead of the current deal's opt-out clause (Alex Sherman/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

KPMG: the 12 largest media companies collectively spent ~$210B on content in 2024, up 4% YoY, led by Comcast/NBCUniversal at $37B and YouTube at $32B (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A look at Wired's efforts to turn its journalists into recognizable figures across platforms; over the past year it has launched six new talent-led video series (Mark Stenberg/Adweek) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Huxe, an app built by three former NotebookLM developers that offers users personalized daily briefs and topic exploration with AI podcast hosts, raised $4.6M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Media monitoring company Signal AI, which has content licensing deals with media groups like the FT, raised $165M led by Battery Ventures, now a majority owner (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

In a post, President Trump criticized ABC for returning Jimmy Kimmel to the air and said he would "test ABC out" as "they gave me $16 Million Dollars" last time (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Jimmy Kimmel returned to TV after nearly a week's suspension, said it was never his intention to make light of the murder of a young man, and thanked supporters (David Bauder/Associated Press) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The FCC's Brendan Carr says "local TV stations" "stood up" to a national programmer by preempting Kimmel and that "we need to keep empowering local TV stations" (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Chinese movies have averaged ~20% of the global box office since 2020, with 98% of their earnings coming from their domestic market, as America's dominance ebbs (Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Larry Ellison is turning into a media magnate, potentially controlling CBS, CNN, TikTok, and more, amid a regulatory environment favorable to Trump allies (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Independent reports 2024 revenue up 15% YoY to £53.2M, the first time it's topped £50M since it went digital-only; pre-tax profit rose 68% YoY to £3.2M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

DallasNews Corporation shareholders approve a merger with Hearst, shutting out an unsolicited bid from an affiliate of Alden Global Capital (Javier E. David/Dallas Morning News) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Kari Lake, USAGM's acting CEO, says in a legal deposition that she was unaware of President Trump's EO shrinking the agency until the day it was issued (Scott Nover/Washington Post) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Microsoft is in talks with US publishers about launching a two-sided marketplace that would compensate publishers for their content used by AI products (Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Apple quietly cancels the release of Apple TV+ show The Savant this Friday; its trailer faced backlash for allegedly misrepresenting right-wing ideologies (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, YouTube says it will reinstate creators it banned for COVID and election misinfo, and blames Biden officials for the bans (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Disney announces price hikes for Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Select, and certain bundles, starting October 21 (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Reuters launches its Arabic website, the company's third dedicated language platform after English and Japanese, and says it will provide 100+ stories daily (Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Cascade PBS in Seattle lays off 12% of staff, or 17 employees, due to the federal funding rescission and will stop producing long-form written journalism (Julian Wyllie/Current) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

UK High Court orders Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke to pay The Guardian at least £3M to cover the outlet's legal costs after he lost his £70M+ libel suit (Alistair Gray/Financial Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Nexstar says it will continue to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live!, "pending assurances that all parties are committed to ... respectful, constructive dialogue" (Ted Johnson/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Future launches Collab, an initiative that integrates creator-led content across its portfolio; creators are hand-selected and paid flat fees as contributors (Kerry Flynn/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Internal report: global revenue at the Financial Times Group grew by 6% YoY to £540M in 2024; UK accounts for Financial Times Ltd show revenue up 2% to £454.6M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Note to staff: WaPo says journalists can now use video to respond in the comments section of their articles, and it's using AI to block "hateful" comments (Max Tani/@maxwelltani) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Jonathan Clements, who wrote 1,009 personal finance columns for the WSJ between 1994 and 2008, died on Sunday at 62, after being diagnosed with cancer last year (Jason Zweig/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

An interview with Noah Johnson, the new editor of the fashion magazine Highsnobiety, about "authenticity" as a core editorial principle and more (Quinn Moreland/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A look at MrBeast's entertainment company, which has ~$450M in annual sales but faced three years of losses due to high production costs of $3M-$4M per video (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Some left-leaning audiences are turning to independent outlets like Bulwark and Crooked Media, abandoning legacy media over their pro-Trump transgressions (Max Tani/Semafor) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sky News Australia admits an editorial failure after a guest delivered an anti-Islam rant while wearing a shirt covered with bacon slices (Amanda Meade/The Guardian) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A Fox Corp. investment in TikTok would help Fox promote TV programming to young audiences, and redeem Rupert Murdoch's disastrous $580M Myspace purchase in 2005 (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, and Rupert Murdoch file to dismiss Trump's $10B defamation lawsuit over Jeffrey Epstein report, saying "the article is true" (Ted Johnson/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sinclair says it will preempt Jimmy Kimmel's show on its ABC affiliate stations starting Tuesday as it discusses the show's potential return with ABC (Loree Seitz/The Wrap) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink