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Founding Partner and Senior Correspondent at Puck. Email me at dylan@puck.news.
Media & News CompanyLos Angeles, CApuck.news/author/dylan-b…Born January 31, 1986Joined January 2011
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NEW: The Koch network is planning to get involved in primaries and hoping to unite behind one who can “turn the page” on the past, an indirect reference to Trump. me
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Credit where it's due: Fox was the only network with a live feed of the balloon being shot down
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Fox News airs live footage of the Chinese spy balloon coming down after it was shot.
"First of all, well done!" Gen. Jack Keane exclaims while watching it float down.
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At last, the T.J. Holmes-Amy Robach fiasco has come to an end. And so have the industry murmurs about the future of ABC chief Kim Godwin. But a bigger curiosity is now coming into focus.
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Puck brings you the inside story happening at the nexus of Wall Street, Washington, Silicon Valley & Hollywood.
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SCOOP: Beset by falling ratings and revenue at CNN, Chris Licht is throwing a Hail Mary pass to see if he can recruit his old friend and colleague Gayle King for a weekly primetime show.
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SCOOP : Chris Licht has approached his old colleague Gayle King to pitch her on hosting a prime time interview show that would still allow her to host ‘CBS Mornings.’ It could be just the sort of narrative-changing move he needs. Will she take it?
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Another high-profile exit from CNN: Rani Raad, president of CNN Worldwide Commercial, is leaving after a quarter-century at the network, per internal memo from CNN Chairman Chris Licht
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It’s the never-before-reported backstory on the contentious—and nearly litigious—relationship between Politico’s former owner Robert Allbritton and his longtime CEO Fred Ryan.
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SCOOP : Fred Ryan came close to suing Robert Allbritton for shorting his cut of proceeds from the sale of Allbritton T.V. stations in 2013. Their fraught history underscores some cutting remarks Allbritton made about Ryan earlier this week:
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Few more scoops:
1. Reporters from CNN, NBC, etc w/ Trump on his plane for Saturday tour to NH & SC, portending return to old Trump-media status quo
2. Nancy Pelosi, Gina Raimondo & Satya Nadella among those being inducted into Alfalfa Club this weekend >
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NEW : The Way We Were: Ryan & Allbritton: The personal and nearly litigious backstory behind one of the most complicated political relationships in Washington media—the bond between Fred Ryan and Robert Allbritton.
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GLOVES OFF. Elliott plans Salesforce board slate, as major proxy fight looms. Scoop from
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Bird can’t fly.
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Remember when Comcast said in January 2020 that @peacock would breakeven in 2024 @BrandoLightShed
Now they are forecasting 2022 losses of $2.5 billion grow to $3 billion in 2023, with 2023 peak losses
#goodluck $CMCSA 
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”In the Room”, bi-weekly email newsletter on the media industry, has become must reading. Smart, insightful analysis with a wry sense of humor:
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“Reports of the Fox Corp.-News Corp. merger’s death, and Lachlan’s dashed dreams, have been greatly exaggerated, as I’m told the Murdochs are likely to reconsider a merger once the Move deal closes.”
on Murdoch’s $3 billion deal.
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Exclusive: Meta is paying BuzzFeed millions of dollars as part of an effort to bring more creators to the social-media giant’s platforms,w/
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Strong “Don’t blame Mark” effort here >
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6/ DECISION-MAKER: "I am the the ultimate decision maker on these kinds of issues in the company," @NickClegg told us
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🚨🚨🚨 #BREAKING : to reinstate Facebook and Instagram accounts "in coming weeks" following a 2yr ban, , the company's president of global affairs, told me and in an interview
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News: James Murdoch wrote letters to the boards of both News Corp and Fox Corp raising questions about the proposed merger. w/ , and
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Full press release on Murdoch withdrawal of Fox Corp-News Corp merger >
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BREAKING: Rupert Murdoch withdraws Fox and News Corp merger proposal
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Jeff Bezos’s visit to The Washington Post set off alarms in the building. But if the world’s fourth richest man has plans for the nation’s second most important paper, he’s keeping them to himself.
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NEW : WWJD: What Would Jeff Do? Bezos’s visit to The Washington Post set off alarms in the building. But if the world’s fourth richest man has plans for the nation’s second most important paper, he’s keeping them to himself. He’s in listening mode
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NEW: Vox Media is cutting ~7% of its staff, CEO Jim Bankoff said in an email memo today
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The streaming wars have paused.
The media world has banded together to fight a bigger threat: slowing growth.
Netflix’s quarter shines a light on a new phenomenon: enemies are now friends. For the moment.
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Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters Are Now Co-CEOs of Netflix, With Reed Hastings as Executive Chairman ... official announcement: about.netflix.com/en/news/ted-sa
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Reed Hastings is stepping aside as CEO, with Greg Peters joining Ted Sarandos. Something (Greg Peters' appointment) many of us saw coming during last earnings' session. twitter.com/loudmouthjulia…
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They might have at least credited
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BREAKING: Supreme Court announces its investigation into the Dobbs opinion leaker has come up short. The Court is "unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence."
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+ More: Jeff Bezos attended Washington Post’s 9:30 a.m. news meeting on Thursday morning, with both Fred Ryan and Sally Buzbee.
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SCOOP in my email tonight: Jeff Bezos was at Washington Post HQ today, meeting w/ C.E.O. Fred Ryan. Visit comes after months of internal frustrations with Ryan’s leadership/fallout between Ryan and executive editor Sally Buzbee, who is in Davos >
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Can Chris Licht revive CNN’s prime-time lineup with a late night shebang? And should he even try?
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Scoop: Sam Bankman-Fried invested roughly $10 million of Semafor’s $25 million round, making him the company’s biggest outside investor. Semafor is buying back his interest and putting that money into a separate account while it raises new $$$
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NEW : Licht After Dark: Can Chris Licht revive CNN’s prime-time lineup with a late night shebang? And should he even try?
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The fallout from Cesar Conde’s questionable “realignment” of the NBC News leadership has left seemingly everyone at 30 Rock searching for answers about who runs America’s most storied news network.
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As predicted, WWE engages Raine as its bank to pursue a sale. Lots of media experience (and connections to potential buyer Endeavor) there.
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