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Biden roasts Trump, GOP, himself at correspondents’ dinner
The White House press corps’ annual gala returned Saturday night along with the roasting of Washington, the journalists who cover it and the man at the helm: President Joe Biden. The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, sidelined by the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, featured Biden as the first president in six years to accept […]
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New Comcast-Charter streaming joint venture suggests the next chapter of the streaming wars is coming
Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast (L), and Tom Rutledge, chief executive officer of Charter Communications Drew Angerer | Getty Images It’s easy to shrug off last week’s announcement that Comcast and Charter have started a joint venture to gain market share nationwide in streaming-video distribution. But the two largest U.S. cable companies may be playing […]
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NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks are seeking $4 million annually for the Deer District property’s naming rights
Milwaukee Bucks Deer District real estate project. Source: Milwaukee Bucks The Milwaukee Bucks, in their quest to repeat as NBA champions, this weekend will begin playing the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Off the court, the team is seeking $4 million annually for entitlement rights to its plaza inside Deer District, a 30-acre […]
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Disney executive Geoff Morrell, who helped craft response to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, leaves company after three months
Disney employee Nicholas Maldonado holds a sign while protesting outside of Walt Disney World on March 22, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Employees are staging a company-wide walkout today to protest Walt Disney Co.’s response to controversial legislation passed in Florida known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Octavio Jones | Getty Images News | Getty […]
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MLB suspends Dodgers star pitcher Trevor Bauer for 2 seasons over violation of sexual assault policy
Umpires check the hat and glove of Trevor Bauer #27 of the Los Angeles Dodgers for foreign substances after the first inning against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium on June 28, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Meg Oliphant | Getty Images MLB suspended Trevor Bauer for two seasons after completing an investigation into […]
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Brooklyn Nets’ playoff flops have created business concerns for the heavily hyped NBA franchise
The Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving (left) has a pat for teammate Kevin Durant as the Celtics were expanding their lead in the second half of Game Four of their first round NBA playoff series at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY on April 25, 2022. Jim Davis | Boston Globe | Getty Images The superstar-laden, super-expensive, […]
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Comcast shares slump as broadband subscriber growth continues to slow
Comcast reported first-quarter earnings Thursday that beat analyst estimates on the top and bottom lines, though broadband growth continues to slow. Comcast added 262,000 high-speed internet customers in the quarter, above the 229,000 average analyst estimate. But about 80,000 of those subscribers were free Internet Essentials customers who are now counted in the total. Comcast […]
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Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’
In this photo illustration, the Twitter logo is displayed on the screen of the phone, with Elon Musk’s Twitter account in the background. Twitter was flooded with user reports of high-profile accounts losing thousands of followers in the hours after news broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would purchase the social network. Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images […]
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Same-day theatrical and streaming releases are dead as a business model, movie theater group CEO says
President & CEO of NATO John Fithian speaks onstage during CinemaCon 2021 The State of the Industry and MGM/UAR Presentation at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, on August 24, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images […]
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Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover sets him on a collision course with Europe
Thierry Breton, a former CEO of French IT consulting firm Atos, is seen as a key architect of the European Union’s digital reforms. Anadolu Agency | Getty Images After Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, EU officials have a message for the eccentric tech billionaire: follow the rules. Over the weekend, the European […]
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