Around a third of US adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes, up from 22% in 2020; 6% say they paid for news podcasts in the past 12 months (Pew Research Center) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

As streaming services hike prices, consumer frustration grows, and streamers look to increase content stickiness and more to combat "serial churners" (Kevin Williams/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

YouTube is testing AI hosts, who will share stories and trivia about the music users are listening to, in the YouTube Music app through its new Labs program (Jay Peters/The Verge) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Nexstar says it will resume airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Daily Caller's editor at large wrote a column calling for violence against progressive activists and "blood in the streets"; the EIC defended the column (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sinclair asked ABC to hire an ombudsman, and says its decision to take down Jimmy Kimmel's program "was independent of any government interaction or influence" (Daniel Arkin/NBC News) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Memo: Chris Rice steps down as co-CEO of Fifth Season, the production company behind Severance; Graham Taylor will be sole CEO, and Rice will remain an adviser (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sinclair says it will return Jimmy Kimmel Live! to its ABC affiliate broadcast stations today (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A profile of Nexstar CEO Perry Sook, who kicked Jimmy Kimmel off his stations and has criticized the "unbridled and ubiquitous reach of Big Tech and Big Media" (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Five former Observer journalists launch the Nerve, a culture publication partly funded with their redundancy money, as part of Beehiiv's Media Collective (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Internal memo: Pam Kaufman, the head of Paramount's international business and a longtime studio veteran, is leaving the company after almost 30 years (Alex Ritman/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: ByteDance is expected to receive ~50% of TikTok US' overall profit despite selling majority ownership to US investors, including a 20% licensing fee (Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

How inaccurate AI translations of Wikipedia pages, which AI models use for training, may cause a doom spiral that further marginalizes vulnerable languages (Jacob Judah/MIT Technology Review) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

China and its media remained quiet about the TikTok deal, a notable silence as China can still decide the app's fate; Chinese social media chatter was limited (Dylan Butts/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Trump administration's $14B valuation of TikTok's US business falls well below previous estimates of around $40B, surprising investors who call it a bargain (Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

As the lyricist behind AI artist Xania Monet signs a $3M record deal, experts say current copyright law may only protect the human-made expressive elements (Elissa Welle/The Verge) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Meta plans to launch paid, ad-free versions of Instagram and Facebook in the UK, each costing £2.99 per month on the web, and £3.99 on iOS and Android (Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

An interview with Dzaky Putra, editor-in-chief of Indonesian political news outlet WIUI, which shares news with its Gen Z audience using a casual tone and memes (Matthew Leake/Reuters Institute) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

AI music startup Suno launches Suno Studio, in beta with its premier plan; the digital audio workstation combines Suno's music generation tools into one product (Kristin Robinson/Billboard) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NBCUniversal warns customers that its networks may be dropped from YouTube TV if the two parties cannot reach a new distribution agreement by September 30 (Sara Fischer/Axios) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Meta rolls out Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, in the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website (Juby Babu/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors (Blake Brittain/Reuters) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Netflix will stream MLB's Opening Day game between the Yankees and the Giants in 2026, as part of a new three-year agreement with the streamer (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Paramount Skydance Names Makan Delrahim, formerly head of the DOJ's antitrust division during President Trump's first term, as chief legal officer (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Trump says Xi Jinping approved the TikTok deal, and JD Vance says the transaction values TikTok US at $14B; ByteDance hasn't acknowledged the deal (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Trump signs an EO declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns (Associated Press) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A profile of podcaster and writer Ed Zitron: tech journalism is flawed, his brash AI critic persona is not a mask, his PR firm gives him insider insight, more (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

IAB lowers its 2025 US ad spend forecast to 5.7% growth, down from 7.3%, citing tariffs and economic headwinds; digital channels including CTV remain resilient (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

A job listing shows OpenAI wants to expand ChatGPT advertising capabilities with internal tools for campaigns, platform integration, and real-time attribution (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors, with a ~45% stake; ByteDance will own 19.9% and ByteDance investors 35% (Ari Levy/CNBC) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Greenleaf Book Group and Amplify Publishing Group have been acquired by Civica Media, a new publishing company formed by private equity firm BlackBern Partners (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

How TelevisaUnivision CEO Daniel Alegre steered the Spanish-language broadcaster to be more centrist, ditching its left-leaning reputation during the Trump era (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

PBS North Carolina lays off 32 employees, after five people took buyouts, and cuts 16 vacant positions, after losing 15% of the network's budget to federal cuts (Austin Fuller/Current) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The Baltimore Banner names Audrey Cooper as its EIC, replacing founding editor Kimi Yoshino; Cooper has been EIC of WNYC since 2020 (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

An interview with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on the NFL's growing relationship with YouTube, embracing creators, altcasts, a streaming Super Bowl, and more (Jourdan Rodrigue/The Athletic) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Delta signs a multiyear deal with YouTube to bring a selection of the platform's content to its inflight entertainment systems, starting September 25 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

As Sinclair and Nexstar refuse to air Kimmel's show, Disney has strong leverage with its ownership of major ABC stations and upcoming affiliate deal renewals (Todd Spangler/Variety) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Alden's losing bid for DallasNews is a rare win for family-controlled, publicly traded newspapers that are viewed as community trusts, not financial assets (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Sources: Paramount is expected to acquire The Free Press in two weeks for ~$150M in cash and stock; Bari Weiss would take a CBS News editorial leadership role (Dylan Byers/Puck) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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