Tootfinder

Netflix subscribers in France can now access TF1 broadcasts and TF1 on-demand content within Netflix at no extra cost; TF1 handles ad sales and programming (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netflix-tf1-streaming-broadcast…

Netflix and TF1 Kick Off Landmark Streaming-Broadcast Tie-Up in France
A year after stunning the television industry with news of their unexpected alliance, France’s TF1 Group and Netflix are launching their partnership.

The BroadCast With Shane Broad
Follow me to hear about Tasmanian politics and all the other stuff I get up to like trying to stay fit, connecting with my community while trying not to embarrass the kids...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-br

50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead conclude 3 nights in passaic, new jersey, broadcast on WNEW. spring ’76, show #11
soundboard https://archive.org/details/gd1976-06-19.sbd.digitalrbb.miller.111852.flac16
video:

The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on whether a single company can own broadcast stations that reach more than 39 percent of US TV households.
In a Breitbart op-ed on Wednesday, Republican Chair Brendan Carr announced an August 6th vote to end the national ownership cap rule,
which was intended to prevent one company from dominating the media landscape and incentivize serving local communities.
Carr argued the rise of social media and streaming plat…

Brendan Carr plans to let broadcast giants dominate the airwaves
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr set a vote to eliminate the 39 percent broadcast ownership cap, which critics say he lacks authority to do.

It must be galling to him that we no longer have the pre-Reagan pre-cable FCC regs and station norms that empowered the POTUS to monopolize the media in primetime.
I expect that many non-olds don’t even realize that was a thing. Once upon a time all TV was broadcast and most was network-affiliated or network-owned, and those all took the feed from the White House when it was offered. There was no escape... @…

Scott MacFarlane on Twitter
Brutal response from FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to Trump's call for ABC and NBC to be stripped of licenses "It is ridiculous to call for broadcasters to lose their license simply for making the same editorial decisions they've made under presidents of both parties. Those editorial decisions are protected by the First Amendment, and the FCC has no authority to punish a station for refusing to air a blatantly political speech. This is a naked attempt to bully broadcasters, and the FCC should ha…

came across this pretty amazing WBAI broadcast of lenny bruce's 1966 memorial at judson church, with ginsberg & other heavies, & a brief sliver of the '66 fugs performing a garage-jangle "carpe diem": https://youtu.be/PzGy9VAKpc8&t=1254
snipped a l'il mp3 for fugs…

More than 250 ex-broadcast journalists urge WHCA dinner organizers "to forcefully demonstrate opposition" to Trump's "efforts to trample freedom of the press" (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/busines

The President Is Coming to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
A president who relishes attacking the news media is set to break his boycott of an event celebrating the news media. (The first lady is attending, too.) What could go wrong?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Play Time:
🎵 Public Broadcast
#PlayTime
https://balmat.bandcamp.com/track/public-broadcast
https://open.spotify.com/track/54Il5v4bP9d6aIDiSVxnrL

Trump used his address to call out ABC and NBC
for not airing his live remarks,
claiming the networks declined to do so
“because they know how corrupt our system is and they don’t want to reveal it.”
He also repeated his frequent demand that the networks’ government-issued broadcast licenses be revoked.
“They and others in the media are part of a plot,”
the president said, offering no evidence for his claims.
In fact, ABC and NBC did carry Trump’s spe…

In Prime Time, Trump Criticizes Networks for Not Carrying His Speech
The president also called for ABC and NBC to lose their broadcast licenses, after complaining that the networks were not airing his remarks.

See at least two #Accordion acts at the #VancouverFolkFestival this weekend ❤️‍🔥🪗
Yagódy is five women from #Ukraine 🇺🇦
La Déferlance are a hot trad band from Quebec City 🎻 …

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-07-15: Le Déferlance and Yagódy at the Folk Fest
The latest episode of CFRO’s weekly alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir broadcast shines the spotlight on accordionic performances coming up at this year’s installment of the long-running Van…

50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in san francisco, finale of 6 shows at the orpheum & last of the post-comeback small theater shows, mixed down & broadcast on the king biscuit flower hour.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd76-07-18.sbd.bertha.14838.…

#Ariane 6 flight VA269 – bigger and more powerful boosters (Official broadcast) from 11:20 UTC today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f457U82D6EY (see https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Watch_live_bigger_booster_more_powerful_Ariane_6_launch for more).

Sources: FIFA officials are visiting India, where no World Cup broadcast deal is agreed; Reliance-Disney JV offered just $20M and Sony refrained from bidding (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/fifa-me…

ESPN eyes Dave Pasch, Bob Wischusen to replace Chris Fowler on NFL game broadcasts: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7352113/2026/06/11/nfl-espn-news-broadcast-crew/

If you were to offer me the choice to permanently remove:
hydration breaks OR Alexi Lalas
It's probably hydration breaks. I loathe Lalas, but I can and do mute the broadcast every time he's on. Hydration breaks seem a slippery slope.
#WorldCup #fedifc

A look at Fishtank, a live, unedited, and violent Big Brother-like show where contestants are locked in a house and viewers can pay to interact with the cast (Owen Long/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/interactive-violent-gross-insid…

Interactive. Violent. Gross. Inside Fishtank, the Unhinged Future of Reality TV
It’s like Big Brother without any limits, or broadcast standards. WIRED goes on location—and on camera—with the cult hit.

This is some next level dumb bullshit by the usual suspects purveyors of the worst ideas
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/02/mps-uk-broadcast-russian-cartoon-masha-and-the-bear

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Broadcast:
🎵 Echo's Answer
#Broadcast
https://keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com/track/broadcast-echos-answer-1999
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mpKGswMW2MypC6kryHQmL

Congress asks NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to testify about league's broadcast deals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7325662/2026/06/01/congress-roger-goodell-testify-broadcast-steaming-deals/

Congress asks NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to testify about league's broadcast deals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7325662/2026/06/01/congress-roger-goodell-testify-broadcast-steaming-deals/

Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’
A new and unique ASCII video streaming solution has been released under the MIT license. ASCILINE Engine by YusufB5 is pitched as a “high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine” that can be used to broadcast “an unblockable video stream.”
📺

Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’
Some commenters are worried that this development could precipitate unblockable ads.

ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/abc-fights-trump-fccs-attempt-to-control-content-of-broadcast-tv-shows/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broadcast:
🎵 We've Got Time
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/weve-got-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/39iJ4Yp10ndwRSmtqUYkoW

I do not like that man, Ted Cruz
I do not like him reading the news
I do not like his sorry stick
And while he's right this time,
He can suck my dick
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/ted-cruz-fcc-abc-broa…

Ted Cruz Rips FCC Over ABC Broadcast License Review Following Kimmel Joke
Ted Cruz thinks the FCC stepped over the line in ordering Disney's ABC to file for an accelerated renewal of broadcast licenses of its eight local TV stations -- seemingly in response to a joke Jimmy Kimmel told about Melania Trump on late-night television.

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

Brendan Carr proposes a repeal of the national ownership cap, which restricts broadcasters from covering 39% of US households, and sets an August 6 FCC vote (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/fcc-national-broadcast-ownership-cap-1236982873/

FCC Chairman Proposes Repeal Of National Ownership Cap, Sets August Vote
The commission will vote in August on whether to repeal the cap.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Mozart, Kelemen, Brekalo and Schubert from Croatia
Music by Croatian composers and performers to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first broadcast in 1926 on Croatian Radio. John Shea presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vxs7

Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-mls-match-shot…

Apple to Broadcast MLS Match Shot Entirely on iPhone 17 Pro
Apple TV on May 27 will present a special live MLS match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro, the first time the device will be used to shoot the entirety of a major professional live sporting event broadcast.

The second of the CF-18s leaving CYUL for today's Alouettes game flyover (I think). #Montreal
You can see them WAY before you can hear them. Also: moving too fast to get my fingers out of the way, I guess.
It makes sense, but pretty bummed that they don't broadcast ADS-B; #yulbbs (`ssh yulbbs.…

Trump's threats to revoke TV licenses get serious (John Hendel/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/17/trump-carr-fcc-broadcast-licenses-01003605
http://www.memeorandum.com/260717/p122#a260717p122

The Medium is the Medium 1969
Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public television and the emerging field of video art in the U.S. WGBH commissioned artists — Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, James Seawright, Thomas Tadlock and Aldo Tambellini — to create original works for broadcast television. Their works explored the parameters of the new medium, from image processing and interactivity to video dance and sculpture.
#television
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UIpZ3n6F_dc&feature=shared

Roger Goodell declines to testify before Congress about NFL's broadcast deals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7333559/2026/06/04/roger-goodell-congress-testify-broadcast-deals/

Canada's CBC, which began televising NHL games in 1952, will no longer show NHL games after it was unable to reach a new sublicense deal with Rogers Sportsnet (CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/cbc-nhl-hockey-night-in-canada-ends-9.7236977

CBC will no longer air NHL games in 'end of an era' as broadcast deal expires | CBC Sports
CBC will no longer broadcast NHL hockey games after it and national rights-holder Rogers Sportsnet were unable to come to agreement on a new sublicensing deal that would have allowed the public broadcaster to air games on its Saturday program Hockey Night in Canada.

This is from an archivist over at the Internet archives:
🤯
“I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure.
Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.”

Jason Scott (@textfiles.com)
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount.

Conflict of Interest:
Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts,
FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality
and should avoid acting on Paramount’s pending merger.
Mixing Business and Pleasure:
After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took …

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.

The UK unveils draft rules that would hold streaming services with 500K UK users to content standards similar to those in place for traditional broadcasters (Julian Clover/Broadband TV News)
https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2026/05/14

Ofcom proposes broadcast-style regulation for Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video
Ofcom has unveiled draft new content and accessibility rules for major streaming platforms including Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video, marking the biggest extension of UK television regulation into…

Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before they do not date, they do not interact at the dances, the parties, the mixers their parents and grandparents used as the primary infrastructure for finding mates. Even when they show up at such…

Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship | David Boles, Blogs
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before …

Congress asks NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to testify about league's broadcast deals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7325662/2026/06/01/congress-roger-goodell-testify-broadcast-steaming-deals/

Oh, an update on the I-VMS issue from last year.
As part of post-EU transition, the government introduced a requirement for fishing vessels to send their positions using I-VMS (it's a batched data transmission rather than a positional broadcast like AIS) but, critically, didn't finalise a contract with the supplier. Who then disabled the data relays.
So now they're paying to replace the devices of the vessels that bought the previous equipment.

Act now: MMO releases further guidance on I-VMS
Eligible fishermen are urged to take immediate action as the Marine Management Organisation moves into the next phase of its I-VMS roll-out

Sources: CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil is broadcasting from Taipei this week after failing to obtain a Chinese visa in time for the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/13/2026

Exclusive: CBS’ Tony Dokoupil to broadcast from Taiwan after failing to get China visa in time
It was a stumble in the network’s efforts to play a leading role in this week’s dominant global story.

2026 NFL Schedule Release: Rams-Seahawks on Christmas Part of FOX's Slate https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-schedule-release-rams-seahawks-christmas-part-foxs-slate

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Broadcast:
🎵 Black Cat
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/black-cat
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Lbm0ObmRqhWhPmvixtI3H

2026 NFL Schedule Release: Rams-Seahawks on Christmas Part of FOX's Slate https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-schedule-release-rams-seahawks-christmas-part-foxs-slate

A US House committee held a hearing on whether leagues like the NFL should keep antitrust exemptions for media deals as more games move to streaming services (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/house-hearing-sports-media-deals-broadcast-st…

House hearing explores sports broadcast deals in streaming era
The hearing highlighted partisan divides, with Republicans criticizing streaming exclusivity and Democrats focusing on media consolidation and rising consumer costs.

This show is always very educational, especially for people that still hasn't understood the true nature of the nazi regime in #russia
This is broadcast in a country where every media outled that displeased the dictator has been shut down.
Open your eyes and act and stop kidding yourselves. These genocidal fanatics are what whe're dealing with. No amount of kumbaya will solve…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Broadcast:
🎵 I Found The F
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/i-found-the-f
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qr2hBL12NbRmFWKlzI3Zs

RE: https://sunny.garden/@MiasAlt/116617663423540456
This is what the barbarians in Israel do and proudly broadcast to Westerners.
What do they do to Palestinians when there are no cameras or international attention?
(We know what they do because …

CBS to broadcast Week 3 game featuring Cowboys vs. Ravens in Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 27

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cbs-to-broadcast-week-3-game-featuring…

The hackers, believed to be potentially aligned with the Northern Alliance and other resistance factions used the compromised broadcast channels to publicly denounce the current Interim Afghan Government (IAG) and the Taliban's (TTA) shifting policies.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/260…

Indian media giant breached by Afghan hackers | The Express Tribune
Indian media giant breached by Afghan hackers

In the U.S. military, commanders do not typically speak publicly about future operations
to avoid tipping off an adversary or jeopardizing the mission’s success and, possibly, American lives.
But that has not dissuaded America’s commander in chief from proclaiming when and how the United States will next attack Iran.
For the second day in a row,
Trump on Thursday threatened in a social media post that the United States would hit Iran
“VERY HARD TONIGHT,”
a…

Trump and Hegseth Broadcast U.S. Military Strikes Before They Happen
Commanders do not usually speak publicly about future operations to avoid jeopardizing the mission’s success.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broadcast:
🎵 Papercuts
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/papercuts
https://open.spotify.com/track/4LHF7lmjy9bmap895FaH7U

50 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #boston, finishing 4 nights at the music hall with a WBCN broadcast. spring ’76, show #6.
FM tape:

President Trump says ABC and NBC should have their licenses revoked for not carrying his speech, alleging they are part of a "plot" to continue election "fraud" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/trump-threatens-a…

Donald Trump Says ABC And NBC Should Lose Broadcast Licenses Because They Didn’t Carry His Primetime Address On Election Claims
The president gave a speech on election integrity, but networks cast a lot of skepticism over his claims

ESPN trusted a Cowboys legend to build something straight out of the future https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-legend-sean-lee-espn-ai-nfl-broadcast/3e4a1161b33941e1e98ab237

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Broadcast:
🎵 I Found The F
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/i-found-the-f
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qr2hBL12NbRmFWKlzI3Zs

Asian broadcasters pushed back against soaring 2026 FIFA World Cup rights fees; FIFA made major concessions in China and India due to unfavorable match times (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/sports/world-cup-tests-asia-s-app…

World Cup tests Asia's appetite for costly broadcast rights
Overnight kickoffs, new viewing habits, streaming's rise complicate FIFA revenue push

The Sporting Class: Is the N.F.L. Killing the Golden Goose? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/podcasts/the-sporting-class-is-the-nfl-killing-the-golden-goose.html

A look at changes to Hungary's media since Viktor Orban's loss: more opposition voices and the most popular TV channel canceled its flagship news broadcast (Anita Komuves/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broadcast:
🎵 Black Cat
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/black-cat
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Lbm0ObmRqhWhPmvixtI3H

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

F.C.C. Orders a Review of ABC's Broadcast Licenses (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/business/media/fcc-abc-television-kimmel.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p96#a260428p96

Maybe it’s suitable, but yesterday we came back from my dad’s funeral and this last week I did an episode of our @… radio show full of nautical songs in his memory
Told a few stories, you can listen to if you feel the urge to travel out to sea that way
🫡 🪗 
Fair Winds, Fallowing Seas Capt. Fred

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-05-27: Fair Winds, Fallowing Seas Capt. Fred
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcast was a playlist of squeezy songs arranged by your host Bruce in memory of his sailor father, who recently pa…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broadcast:
🎵 The Aphid Sleeps
#Broadcast
https://broadcast.bandcamp.com/track/the-aphid-sleeps
https://open.spotify.com/track/7xLeyUBoh0JOa4cVVxeH3j

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Broadcast:
🎵 The Book Lovers
#Broadcast
https://open.spotify.com/track/1c8L2UYpJp0EkilO1duOK8

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

About 120 journalists and broadcast staff are expected to participate in a strike at Scotland's STV over pay on Friday, as election results are counted (Severin Carrell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/07/stv-scot…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Queen Rodeo:
🎵 Broadcast
#QueenRodeo
https://queenrodeo.bandcamp.com/track/broadcast
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uMOYI1rmVmsXZzVcZWrmb

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Broadcast:
🎵 Come On Let's Go
#Broadcast
https://lamesseedit.bandcamp.com/track/broadcast-come-on-lets-go
https://open.spotify.com/track/2omiaJwimfJMlcM6yw2YmA

Congress asks Goodell to testify about TV deals https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48941023/congress-asks-roger-goodell-testify-nfl-broadcast-deals

Sources: Fox is paying $485M for 2026 World Cup broadcast rights, an estimated $500M to $1B below market value, after FIFA moved to avoid litigation with Fox (Tariq Panja/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

How a Curious FIFA Deal Gave Fox a Huge Bargain for World Cup Broadcast Rights
A decision to stave off litigation between Fox and FIFA turned into a bonanza worth hundreds of millions of dollars in discounted World Cup rights to the broadcaster.

How to watch tonight's California Governor debate on cable
The governor's debate begins at 5:30 p.m. PDT and will be broadcast live across CBS-owned stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield, Palm Springs and Santa Barbara.
A pre-show, "Countdown to the Debate," will start 30 minutes before the debate at 5 p.m.

Fox will reportedly make $250M on World Cup hydration break ads alone; the new ad slot may be appealing to European national leagues whose revenue is flat (Ben Strauss/ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/49326566/hydration-breaks-wo…

The ABC television network on Thursday issued a rigorous defense of its right to broadcast,
accusing the Federal Communications Commission of threatening its station licenses as part of a campaign of
“unconstitutional retaliation and coercion.”
Its accusation came in a formal response to a highly unusual move by the F.C.C. in April
ordering ABC to apply to renew its broadcasting licenses years before they are set to expire.
The request from the agency raised th…

ABC Accuses Media Regulator of Threatening Its Licenses
The TV network slammed the Federal Communications Commission, saying the regulator was targeting its station licenses in a campaign of “unconstitutional retaliation.”

ABC submits license renewal applications for its eight local TV stations to the FCC as ordered by the agency but says FCC's order violates the First Amendment (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/abc-b

ABC Submits Broadcast Renewal Application to FCC 'Under Protest'
Disney's ABC has submitted its license renewal applications to the FCC as ordered by the agency -- but it is doing so "under protest."

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Broadcast:
🎵 Echo's Answer
#Broadcast
https://keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com/track/broadcast-echos-answer-1999
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mpKGswMW2MypC6kryHQmL

A look at the growing trend of active NBA and WNBA players appearing as broadcast contributors and analysts, a practice common in tennis and the NFL previously (Danielle Lerner/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2026/06/02…

Inside the NBA and WNBA's booming player-to-broadcast pipeline
Using Draymond Green's blueprint, players like Tyrese Haliburton, Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark aren't waiting to retire to take on TV gigs.

A California law banning streaming services from showing ads
“louder than the video content” that they accompany
is set to take effect on Wednesday, July 1.
(Existing legislation already imposes similar volume restrictions on broadcast and cable TV commercials.) 
Ars Technica notes that streaming services have not shared additional details about how they plan to comply with the law.
While the volume limitations only apply to California for now,
it seems…

California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1 | TechCrunch
Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.

Free-agent QB Russell Wilson weighing contract offer from Jets, opportunity as TV analyst https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-qb-russell-wilson-weighing-contract-offer-from-jets-opportunity-as-tv-analyst

FIFA faces a broadcast crisis for the 2026 World Cup; a Reliance-Disney JV offered just $20M for India rights, and FIFA has yet to announce a China deal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

A look at ABC News' 24-hour Fourth of July programming marathon for the US' 250th anniversary, which it calls "the longest commercial broadcast in history" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Inside ABC News’ July 4 Plan to Pull Off “The Longest Commercial Broadcast in the History of TV”
From a light show and Brandi Carlile performance at the Statue of Liberty to a July 4 bash in Nashville, and visits to all 50 states and the seven natural wonders of America in between, ABC is going big for America's 250th.

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Letter: Congress summons NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to testify June 10 about the league's broadcast deals and whether it should retain antitrust exemptions (Dan Murphy/ESPN)
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48941023/congress-ask…

Zee Entertainment secures Indian broadcast and streaming rights to 39 FIFA soccer events spanning 2026 to 2034, including the FIFA World Cups in 2026 and 2030 (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/sports/global/zee-fifa-soccer-r…

Zee Lands FIFA Soccer Rights for India, Covering World Cups to 2034
Zee Entertainment Enterprises has secured Indian broadcast and streaming rights to 39 FIFA soccer events spanning 2026 to 2034.

Fox reports Q3 revenue down 8.6% YoY to $3.99B, a profit of $175M, down from $354M YoY, cable revenue up 5% YoY to $1.74B, and ad revenue down 21% to $1.56B (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/fox-quarterly-revenue-profit-dips-…

Fox March Quarter Revenue Dips Without Super Bowl As Company Gears Up For World Cup
Fox fiscal Q3 quarterly revenue dipped from last year without the Super Bowl, which it broadcast the year before.

Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-mls-match-shot…

Apple to Broadcast MLS Match Shot Entirely on iPhone 17 Pro
Apple TV on May 27 will present a special live MLS match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro, the first time the device will be used to shoot the entirety of a major professional live sporting event broadcast.

Sources: the FCC is moving toward a review of Disney's broadcast licenses, putting pressure on the ABC owner as it faces scrutiny over Jimmy Kimmel's monologue (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/28/2026/fcc-prepares-review-of-disneys-tv…

Exclusive: FCC prepares review of Disney’s TV licenses
Potential move could strip ABC of its ability to broadcast to stations across the country following Jimmy Kimmel’s “expectant widow” monologue comments.

Sources: Netflix, Disney, and YouTube are interested in challenging Fox for 2030 and 2034 World Cup US broadcast rights; Amazon and Apple also potential bidders (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/07/fifa-world-cup-media-rights-netflix-dis…

Source: Rupert Murdoch warned Trump at a dinner in February that if streamers gained rights to more games, including NFL games, it would kill broadcast networks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/murdoch

ITN rebrands its ITN Archive YouTube channel as Frontline by ITN, with a £3.99-per-month subscription option, and launches two new consumer-facing channels (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

ITN launches paid subscriptions on Youtube to support archive content
News production company ITN has started to target Youtube users directly for the first time and is hoping some will become paying members.

Sources: Sky has agreed on terms to buy ITV's broadcast and streaming unit in a £1.6B deal, which will include ITV Studios acquiring Sky's Love Productions (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/comcast-owned-sky-reaches-…

Brendan Carr says an FCC inquiry into media sports rights might not lead to new rules; Fox and Sinclair have filed comments supporting sports on broadcast TV (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Nigeria's broadcast regulator threatens sanctions for radio and TV presenters who intimidate guests, or air personal opinions or divisive political content (Isaac Anyaogu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

NPR is overhauling its dues model so that fees are based on news stations' broadcast reach rather than donor revenues and projects dues will fall 15% to 18% (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2026/06/overhauled-npr-dues-model-prov…

Major US progressive donor network Democracy Alliance plans to invest "tens of millions" in new media sources and shift away from ads and broadcast TV (David Weigel/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2026/progressive-megadon…

Exclusive: Progressive megadonors bet big on content creators
Democracy Alliance is urging members to commit eight-figure donations to a new liberal media fund, according to details shared with Semafor.

Sky News Australia says it will rebrand as News24 on July 27 after 30 years, with its broadcast, streaming, and digital assets transitioning to News24.com.au (Sky News Australia)
https://www.skynews.com.au/b…

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says there was no "pressure from the outside" on the agency leading to an early review of ABC's TV broadcast licenses (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fcc-chairm…

FCC Chairman Responds With Parks and Recs Meme to Critic Calling Him a 'Whole Bitch'
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr trolled a commenter who took aim at him in the wake of the agency's move to force Disney's ABC to reapply for spectrum licenses on an accelerated schedule.

The NAB's CEO says the FCC's "nearly unprecedented request" for Disney to reapply for TV licenses is contrary to established principles and creates uncertainty (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/jimmy-kimmel-fcc-disn…

FCC’s Jimmy Kimmel-Triggered Review Of ABC Station Licenses Criticized By Top Broadcast Trade Group
The National Association of Broadcasters is criticizing FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for his scrutiny of Disney and ABC over a joke by Jimmy Kimmel.