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Mike Farrell / Multichannel News: 5 hours ago

CBS launches local news streaming service, CBSN, which will stream coverage from major markets served by CBS's owned and operated stations, starting in New York

Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times: 11 hours ago

The LA Times to produce a one hour prime-time news TV series for Charter's Spectrum News 1 channel, starting in February and airing Monday through Thursday

Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable: 17 hours ago

Amazon makes NBA League Pass package available through Amazon's Prime Video Channels, offering regular-season out-of-market games for $29/month or $169 a season

John Podhoretz / Commentary:

Shutting down the Weekly Standard is an intellectual and political crime that enables its parent company to harvest its subscriber base for another publication

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Oliver Darcy / CNN:

The Weekly Standard will publish its last edition on December 17 and shut down after 23 years

Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:

Hulu is launching a new private programmatic marketplace for advertisers to buy its on-demand and TV inventory; the marketplace won't replace upfront deals

Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:

CBS launches local news streaming service, CBSN, which will stream coverage from major markets served by CBS's owned and operated stations, starting in New York

Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:

WarnerMedia names Kevin Reilly head of content and strategy for its streaming service; he will remain president of TBS, TNT, and CCO of Turner Entertainment

Washington Post:

As digital media faces bigger hurdles, PitchBook numbers show investors on track to close 19 deals worth $130M in 2018; they closed 27 deals worth $206M in 2014

Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:

The LA Times to produce a one hour prime-time news TV series for Charter's Spectrum News 1 channel, starting in February and airing Monday through Thursday

Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

Sources say that negotiations between Tribune and McClatchy ended mainly because McClatchy was offering $16.50/share and Tribune wants at least $18/share

Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:

Amazon makes NBA League Pass package available through Amazon's Prime Video Channels, offering regular-season out-of-market games for $29/month or $169 a season

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

CBS will award $20M of the $120M earmarked for Les Moonves's severance package to 18 organizations that work to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace

Dominic Patten / Deadline:

FX study: 2018 saw the release of 495 scripted original TV shows, with online streamers like Netflix accounting for the majority of them with 160 shows

Nick Romano / EW.com:

The lengthy copyright lawsuit over the Blurred Lines song ends, with an appeals court awarding Marvin Gaye's family ~$5M from Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams

Ted Johnson / Variety:

Nexstar settles with DOJ over the sharing of ad price rates among TV station owners that let them manipulate prices; six other groups settled last month

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