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Midweek report: Netflix and OpenAI face the smoking-hot 'cigarette' legal strategy, and Elon Musk makes his orbiting data center plan actually sound doable

Jun 11, 2026

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Midweek report: Netflix and OpenAI face the smoking-hot 'cigarette' legal strategy, and Elon Musk makes his orbiting data center plan actually sound doable

Also in the Thursday edition of our newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, Paramount tells Netflix to stop the "scorched-earth campaign" allegedly being waged against its Warner Bros. deal

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
A powerful lobby joins the battle against NFL streaming, California's quest to stop the Paramount-WBD deal gets off to a slow start, and Anthropic throws a caution flag

Jun 8, 2026

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A powerful lobby joins the battle against NFL streaming, California's quest to stop the Paramount-WBD deal gets off to a slow start, and Anthropic throws a caution flag

Also in our flagship newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, the DOJ wages a hollowed-out legal fight against China's Huawei, and Scott Pelley reminds us that things were even worse under the Sedition Act of 1798

David Bloom
Daniel Frankel
David Bloom, +1
Midweek report: YouTube glams up its creators for a little Emmy love, Canada cans its Netflix tax, and Bari Weiss looks to finish the job

Jun 4, 2026

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Midweek report: YouTube glams up its creators for a little Emmy love, Canada cans its Netflix tax, and Bari Weiss looks to finish the job

Also in the Thursday edition of our newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, its also the end of another TV era, with NBCU exiting the once vastly lucrative broadcast syndication business ... and 'Access Hollywood'

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
Amazon's handpicked AI creators revolt, Peacock mobile app takes on TikTok, and 'Backrooms' christens filmmaking's YouTube-first era

Jun 1, 2026

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Amazon's handpicked AI creators revolt, Peacock mobile app takes on TikTok, and 'Backrooms' christens filmmaking's YouTube-first era

Also in our flagship newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, we examine the mounting pressure on California Attorney General Rob Bonta to do something to try to stop Paramount and Bari Weiss from also dismantling CNN

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
Midweek report: Amazon serves Hollywood to its AI, Roku finally remakes its home screen, and China's DeepSeek threatens to deep six IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI

May 28, 2026

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Midweek report: Amazon serves Hollywood to its AI, Roku finally remakes its home screen, and China's DeepSeek threatens to deep six IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI

Also in the Thursday edition of our newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, we look at how the CTV app explosion is coming to in-car entertainment

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
Huawei nanos up to Trump with plans for super-advanced chips, and MLB faces whiny cord-forevers

May 26, 2026

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Huawei nanos up to Trump with plans for super-advanced chips, and MLB faces whiny cord-forevers

Also in our flagship newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, Paramount's debt situation gets affirmed with a 'borderline' crazy-bad rating

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
Midweek report: SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO unveiled -- it's driven by rockets, Starlink (and FCC grift); and Amazon finally moves forward on its $8 billion 'Bond' investment

May 21, 2026

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Midweek report: SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO unveiled -- it's driven by rockets, Starlink (and FCC grift); and Amazon finally moves forward on its $8 billion 'Bond' investment

Also in the Thursday edition of our newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, we look at how Roku and Cineverse are partnering to create the next Howdy

David Bloom
Daniel Frankel
David Bloom, +1
Roku demonstrates the awesome power of its discovery layer, and Publicis Groupe pivots hard from The Trade Desk with $2.2 billion LiveRamp deal

May 18, 2026

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Roku demonstrates the awesome power of its discovery layer, and Publicis Groupe pivots hard from The Trade Desk with $2.2 billion LiveRamp deal

Also in our newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, we check out the emerging battle between Elon Musk and Big Wireless' new JV, and we try to free Britney so she can loudly eat in peace

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
Midweek report: Outcome mania grips the Upfronts, the FCC sticks it to EchoStar again, and NFL streaming turns out to be a bargain

May 14, 2026

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Midweek report: Outcome mania grips the Upfronts, the FCC sticks it to EchoStar again, and NFL streaming turns out to be a bargain

Also in the Thursday edition of our newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, we ponder what lessons the creator economy can learn from BuzzFeed's platform dependency

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
Nielsen brings 'TV measurement revolt' to heel, Meta reels in Google's ad revenue crown, and YouTube readies to grow even more powerful this summer

May 11, 2026

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Nielsen brings 'TV measurement revolt' to heel, Meta reels in Google's ad revenue crown, and YouTube readies to grow even more powerful this summer

Also in our weekly look at all things technology, media and telecom, we look at Adidas' mega-budget, Nike-killing social video campaign for the World Cup

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
Midweek report: Disney hoists its 'super app,' social video steals CTV's momentum, and programmatic buyers say they're not ready just yet to get in the Waymo

May 7, 2026

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Midweek report: Disney hoists its 'super app,' social video steals CTV's momentum, and programmatic buyers say they're not ready just yet to get in the Waymo

Also in the Thursday edition of our newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, buyers of (cheap?) Roku-powered TVs stage class-action revolt

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
Netflix fails to meet the vertical challenge with horizontal move to 'Clips,' and Elon Musk's truth on Grok training gets distilled under oath

May 4, 2026

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Netflix fails to meet the vertical challenge with horizontal move to 'Clips,' and Elon Musk's truth on Grok training gets distilled under oath

Also in our newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, we look at how a Claude agent terminated a rental car company's entire database and didn't feel the least bit bad about it; and after he thinned Verizon's herd of 13,000 workers, we examine what's next for cowboy CEO Dan Schulman

Daniel Frankel
David Bloom
Daniel Frankel, +1
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