A US court has rejected the Biden administration’s bid to restore net neutrality rules that would have prevented operators from prioritising traffic carried over their networks. On January 2nd, the court ruled that the federal government does not have the authority to regulate internet providers like utilities. The rules were first introduced in 2015 by […]
FOX News finished November as the top news brand on YouTube securing over 400 million video views during a historic election month, according to Shareablee. As Americans voted in an historical election, FOX News Digital marked its best month since November 2020 leading news brands with multiplatform views and minutes, according to Comscore. For the […]
Ligado Networks can proceed with their claim for $39 billion (€36.9bn) in damages and compensation from the US government for what it claims – in essence – is the theft of its L-band spectrum. A US federal judge on November 18th rejected some of Ligado’s minor arguments but has allowed the major portion of the […]
US President-elect Donald Trump has named big tech critic Brendan Carr to lead the FCC when he takes office in January 2025. Carr has attacked what he sees as the censorship of conservative viewpoints by social media firms. Carr wrote a chapter of Project 2025 – the wish list for a second Trump presidency by […]
US President-elect Donald Trump has launched lawsuits claiming damages against several media outlets. Days before the presidential election, Trump’s lawyer Edward Andrew Paltzik issued a letter to the New York Times and Penguin Random House that demanded $10 billion in damages over articles critical of Trump. The letter, revealed by Columbia Journalism Review, accused the […]
The past months have seen a tennis match of submissions volley back and forth between SpaceX and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over granting SpaceX and its Starlink satellites access spectrum and link with the world’s smartphones. SpaceX urgently wants access, and the FCC has – to date – firmly declined. A report from Scotiabank […]
How did he do that? A question asked many times about Donald Trump, now to be the 47th President of the US, having already been the 45th. It turns out he’s better at politics than business. When that question is asked about him in the business world, it usually relates to how did he lose […]
Donald Trump’s media company reported a net loss of $19.2 million (€17.8m) in the third quarter, due to legal fees and costs tied to its TV streaming deal. As US voters made him President again, Trump Media & Technology Group said the figure includes $12.1 million in legal fees in the quarter, stemming from its […]
Programmatic media company MiQ tracked TV viewership trends for over 65 million US households who tuned into the November 5th election coverage. According to MiQ’s analysis, the average watch time per household was 122 minutes, with the avid viewer segment spending 3 hours following coverage. Further highlights include: Viewership peaked between 9-10 PM, with 60 per […]
Channel 4 has announced that its first overnight coverage of a US Presidential Election coverage since 1992 will be livestreamed in full on the broadcaster’s YouTube channel. The announcement builds on Channel 4’s strategic partnership with YouTube to bring programming to digital audiences. It follows the success of the broadcaster’s Paris 2024 Paralympics coverage, which […]