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EchoStar's $23 billion spectrum sale to AT&T ends our childish dream of a 4th wireless carrier; a young Chinese engineer steals Elon Musk's AI secrets and hands them to Sam Altman; and crackers barrel in on ESPN's Doris Burke
Also in our weekly newsletter covering all things technology, media and telecom, we ponder the increasingly apparent veracity of 'The Sarandos Rule' for theatrical distribution, and wonder why Google so meekly surrendered to Brendan Carr
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Blatantly biased Brendan Carr mounts another media-tech trophy … before the taxidermy on CBS is even done
Another football-impacting fall TV blackout was avoided last week, when YouTube TV and Fox Corp. agreed on a new master broadcast retransmission and cable carriage deal ahead of Saturday’s Big Noon Kickoff matchup of Ohio State and Texas.
While such settlements in recent years have highlighted tectonic changes affecting TV distribution — think the fight between Disney and Charter Communications two years ago — this one revealed the increasingly inappropriate intertwining of an activist FCC into private American media business dealings, and the abject fealty to which distributors out of favor with the Trump administration seem to be responding.
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