Apple Sales Rise 16% To Record $109 Billion For June Quarter
For the three months ended June 27, Apples Q3 of fiscal 2026, the tech giant reported total revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16% — a new record for the June quarter. Net income came in at $29.8 billion, an increase of 27%, translating to diluted earnings per share of $2.02. The results topped Wall Street expectations.
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Can the new hires for 60 Minutes meet the challenge?
The media world is still buzzing about some of the new hires for the upcoming season of CBSs “60 Minutes.” Most notably, the talk has been about the hiring of […]
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Sorting through the mixed messages about cyclosporiasis
Lettuce has probably never made you so nervous. The news about cyclosporiasis, an illness people can contract by eating raw produce contaminated with a diarrhea-causing parasite, keeps evolving. U.S. cases are […]
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TVNZ Debuts Hybrid Streaming Model With Event Pass For FIFA World Cup 2026
New Zealand national broadcaster TVNZ and Evergent said they successfully launched a hybrid streaming model on TVNZ+, offering premium sporting content via a one-off Event Pass for the first time …
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Banijay Americas CEO Ben Samek to Oversee Merged Banijay/All3Media Operations In U.S.
With the completion of the $8 billion merger between Banijay and All3Media, as expected Banijay Americas CEO Ben Samek is in line to oversee the combined companys U.S. entity.
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KCNC News Anchor-Reporter Alan Gionet Retiring
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IBC: Chyron To Highlight HTML, Cloud and AI Tools As It Marks 60 Years
Chyron is using IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, Sept. 11-14, to highlight workflow efficiencies and emerging technologies — including HTML tools, cloud production and AI — as the broadcast graphics company …
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Lauren Petterson-McMurry Promoted To Executive Producer At KVUE Austin
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A community can have local newspapers and still lack local news
After decades of working for national news medias biggest names, Paul Miller retired to Carmel-by-the-Sea in the 1990s. But instead of spending his days soaking in the Monterey Peninsula’s stunning […]
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NBC Prepares For Spin-Off By Hiring Christopher Halpin As CFO
The Comcast-backed media conglomerate, which is slated to be spun off from its parent company within a years time, named Christopher Halpin as chief financial officer. He will begin in his new role on September 8, and report to Mike Cavanagh, co-CEO of Comcast.
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SiriusXM Adds 22K Subscribers, But Shares Fall After Earnings Miss
The company reported net income of $239 million, or $0.70 per share, which slightly missed analyst expectations.
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WPBL Secures Media Rights Deal With ESPN & Scripps Sports Network For Inaugural Season
ESPN will be the U.S. distributor for all regular-season and playoff games, while the Scripps Sports Network will broadcast a select slate of regular-season games. ESPN will stream 19 regular-season and postseason games in the U.S., with 11 games simulcast on Scripps Sports Network. ( Alanis Thames / AP )
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Linear TVs Performance Renaissance: From Mass Reach To Verified Results
Tenetics Chris Wilson : Money is flowing to the television that can tie exposure to outcomes.
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What Is A Brand Extension? Jeopardy! Attempts To Answer Question Of TVs Future
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IBC: Haivision To Debut Makito ONE Transport Platform & Falkon X4 5G Transmitter
Haivision said today it will make the European debut of its Makito ONE video transport platform and the Falkon X4 5G mobile video transmitter at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, Sept. …
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Reality TV Bigwig Mike Darnell Signs Overall Deal With Netflix
The former Warner Bros. TV and Fox executive will develop and produce programming and also provide strategic guidance on the streamer's unscripted slate.
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Brompton Processing Helped Power Controlled Virtual Production On ITVs Believe Me
Brompton Technologys LED processors formed the processing backbone for the controlled virtual production workflow used on Believe Me, ITVs four-part true-crime drama, the company said. The series, produced by Etta …
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ITV Sees Solid Results In First Half Of 2026, Reports $26M Loss Due To Fast Food Ad Regulations
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Christine Romans Current To Debut Aug. 3 On NBC News Now
NBC News aims to harness Romans long experience covering financial markets, and some segments on the new program will focus on finance, business, technology and AI.
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Savannah Guthrie makes an emotional plea for her missing mother
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthries mother has now gone on for 177 days. But the pain remains as fresh as ever. Guthrie put out another […]
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Disney Selling A+E Global Media Stake To Hearst In Billion-Dollar Deal
The deal, believed to be worth north of $1 billion and all-cash, is being finalized and is expected to be revealed at Disneys earnings call next week. Word of the pending announcement was tweeted by analyst Rich Greenfield Thursday.
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60 Minutes makes big hires, including one that will raise eyebrows
Some are calling it a coup — an inspired, out-of-the-box great hire meant to shake life into a long-running news show. Others are saying its a bizarre, risky hire — of […]
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Poynter Institute to honor Chuck Todd for leadership in independent political journalism
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (July 28, 2026) — The Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalism, will honor veteran political journalist Chuck Todd with the 2026 Poynter Make a Mark Leadership […]
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Henry Chu Named Curator Of Nieman Foundation For Journalism
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ABC is done playing defense against the FCC
For more than a year, the Federal Communications Commission and its chairman Brendan Carr have repeatedly hassled, threatened and tried to intimidate ABC. Led by Carr, the FCC made threats […]
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VIDA Adds AI Scene-Level Search to Content OS to Speed Archive Discovery
VIDA said today it has launched Scene Search, an AI-powered indexing feature for VIDA Content OS that lets users search inside video libraries at the scene level without relying on …
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Streaming Ratings: Love Island USA Reclaims No. 1 Ranking
The Bear improves a week after its final season premiere and Elle debuts in the top 10 originals.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Sees Revenue Drop 13% In Latest Quarter; Big Gains In Music
Crunchyroll continues to grow paid subscriber numbers, but lower revenues from motion pictures was due to the studio only releasing one theatrical film in North America in the period. SPEs TV unit saw Q1 revenue reach $571 million, down 32% from $841 million in the same period a year earlier.
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Sam Altman Courts Washington As OpenAI Pushes A Powerful New AI
Altman described an upcoming product that would enable “agents” to divide tasks while also transforming the American economy.
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Mark Charter Joins WMTV 15 News as Evening Anchor
Gray Media NBC affiliate WMTV Madison, Wis., announced that veteran journalist Mark Charter is returning as the stations new evening anchor. Charter will co-anchor WMTVs 5, 6 and 10 p.m. …
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Anne Sweeney Resigns From Netflix Board
After serving for more than 11 years on Netflixs board, Anne Sweeney is departing as a director. Netflix disclosed Sweeneys departure in an SEC filing Thursday.
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IBC: Humans Not Robots To Present Expanded Observability Tools, Quality Of Impact Framework
Observability provider Humans Not Robots said today it will make its largest-ever showing at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, Sept. 11-14, demonstrating updates to its HNR to ZERO platform and previewing …
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As search and social traffic dries up, local newsrooms turn to Reddit
This article was originally published by Northwestern Universitys Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. Last October, the Big 12 conference issued a rule change that only really makes […]
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60 Years Of Star Trek Marked With Specials On MeTV, H&I & MeTV Toons
Fans can catch weeklong marathons and a special guest appearance as Weigel Broadcasting marks the 60th anniversary of Star Trek with themed programming across MeTV, Heroes & Icons and MeTV …
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New York Sues Kalshi, Says Its Prediction Markets Are Illegal Gambling
New Yorks attorney general sued prediction market operator Kalshi on Friday, claiming that its platform violates state laws against illegal gambling.
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Disco Adds Three Senior Leaders to Expand Sales, Supply & Product AI Team
Commerce media platform Disco has hired three senior executives as it expands its commercial and product teams to meet rising demand for commerce media, the AI-powered platform. Discos marketplace connects …
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Fremantle Hires Katie OConnell Marsh As Global Scripted Chief
Baywatch and M. Son of the Century producer Fremantle has been seeking out a U.K.-based executive to effectively replace Christian Vesper, the CEO of global drama and film who exited his post in January.
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Big Techs AI Spending Keeps Rising. So Do the Jitters
Amazon joined a procession of tech giants that ramped up their spending on artificial intelligence, as its capital expenditures soared 69%. Concerns over the industrys spending are mounting.
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FCC Probing Recent Flurry Of Big Four Affiliation Swaps
'We are taking investigatory action right now on at least one, if not more, of these affiliation transactions, Chairman Brendan Carr says. “This is not the Wild West ... It's not Nam.”
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Tegnas Producer Bootcamp Program Feeds Trained Staff to Its Local TV Newsrooms
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Blue Jackets Merge TV & Radio Broadcasts
Columbus will use the television broadcast audio feed for radio broadcasts moving forward.
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South Korea wrote a fact-checking code into law. Korean fact-checkers are wary.
In South Korea, anyone who believes an online post is false can now report it. The company that hosts the post must then decide whether the complaint is valid. That […]
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No TV Experience? At CBS News, Thats No Problem
Margaret Sullivan: The conservative columnist Ross Douthat is the networks latest perplexing hire — but the move is in line with the new leadership.
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ABC Says Comments Overwhelmingly Favor License Renewals Despite FCCs Ongoing Retaliation Campaign
In a filing made public on Thursday, the networks legal team also warned that the FCCs action — demanding an early review of the licenses for the networks eight owned stations — reflected a wider effort to crack down on the media. The networks filing identified multiple instances in which Trump has called for the network to lose its license.
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Clueless Sequel Series Moving Forward At Paramount+
The follow-up to the 1995 cult classic will once again star Alicia Silverstone and be written by the creators of The O.C . and Gossip Girl as well as the writer of Freakier Friday .
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Haivision To Feature Makito ONE, Falkon X4 At IBC 2026
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No Surprise: Most of us get our news from scrolling on our phones
This column is part of the Indianapolis Public Editor project, a pilot program designed to test whether the presence of a public editor who analyzes local coverage can elevate audience […]
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Cruz Drops Plans To Advance AI Bills Next Week
Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz said Wednesday he is again postponing a highly anticipated markup of artificial intelligence bills planned for next week. Instead, the Texas Republican said the panel will take up bills only focused on kids online safety.
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European Soccer Nations Vote To Boycott World Cup If FIFA Pushes On With Controversial Sales Plan
UEFAs member associations Thursday voted to approve the boycott at an emergency meeting. The decision throws the world of soccer into chaos and has echoes of the controversial 2021 European Super League proposal, which was abandoned after 48 hours.
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The FCCs Bigger Broadcast Ownership Question
There is a temptation to treat the FCC's coming national ownership vote on Aug. 6 as a simple deregulatory move. But that framing misses what is actually on the table. The commission is not just considering a higher number. It is considering whether a fixed national reach limit still makes sense at all, and whether the agency should instead judge oversized deals one by one under its longstanding “public-interest standard.”
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New York Mets Become First MLB Team To Partner With A Prediction Market
Novig is entering into a multi-year deal that would see its branding integrated across the Mets ecosystem.
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MainStreaming Joins OpenMOQ Consortium To Help Advance Media-Over-QUIC Standards
MainStreaming has joined the OpenMOQ Software Consortium, an industry effort to build open-source software implementing the IETFs Media over QUIC (MOQ) and related QUIC standards. The move commits MainStreaming to …
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Netflix Sued For $105M After Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen From Its Office
The lawsuit faults Netflix for losing a hard drive that contained a copy of World War II thriller Fortitude . The company maintains it's not responsible for the loss of the movie, which it says was delivered without proper industry-standard safeguards.
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WSCV Miami & Marlins Announce First-Time Partnership For Spanish-Language Game Broadcasts
WSCV (Telemundo 51 Miami), part of NBCUniversals Telemundo Station Group, and the Miami Marlins today announced a first-time partnership to present live Spanish-language coverage of Marlins games. Telemundo 51 will …
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Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Companies During Tests
The breaches, which follow a similar incident involving rival OpenAI and startup Hugging Face, were due to a mistake, Anthropic said.
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TV News Check at Friday, July 31, 2026 10:04:42 AM
Tech Lab Updates Agentic Protocols, Releases AAMP 2.3
IAB Tech Lab, the Interactive Advertising Bureaus technology arm, has been working on a roadmap for agentic advertising standards, with advancements similar to what powers the ecosystem today, to easily move systems into production.
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Trumps Nominee To Oversee VOA Suggests Return Of Journalists On Leave
The statement by the nominee, Sarah B. Rogers, signaled a stark reversal of the presidents earlier efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups.
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NESNs Womens Celebration Night Returns Aug. 5 With All-Female-Led Red Sox Broadcast
NESN will present its third annual Womens Celebration Night on Aug. 5, featuring more than 25 women in on-air and production roles for the Red Sox-White Sox telecast. The broadcast …
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IBC Innovation Awards Finalists Unveiled, Honoring Collaborative Advances Across Global Media & Ente
IBC has announced the finalists for the IBC2026 Innovation Awards, recognizing collaborative projects from around the world that solve real-world challenges and demonstrate outstanding advances across the media, entertainment and technology industry. …
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Brendan Carr Speaks Out On Jimmy Kimmel, The Media & Trump
Until recently, the Federal Communications Commission was not an agency that many Americans typically spent much time thinking about. Thats changed in President Donald Trumps second term under FCC Chair Brendan Carr. ( Alex Wong / pool via AP )
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