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John Saavedra

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    Apple’s Mission to Grow F1 in the U.S.

    Eddy Cue, Apple SVP, Services and Health, and F1 President/CEO Stefano Domenicali joined a Paley Media Council talk to dish about how the motorsport has progressed since Apple TV began exclusively streaming races in March.

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    NECN’s Spectrum News Refresh

    New Englanders tuning into New England Cable News (NECN) this morning were greeted by a rebranded and refreshed network now owned and operated by Charter.

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    MS Now’s Big DTC Bet

    At the inaugural Status Summit in NYC, MS Now President Rebecca Kutler laid out the vision for Versant’s newly launched DTC product.

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    HGTV Travels Back to the ’90s

    HGTV’s new home renovation competition show “Totally ’90s House” is every bit of ’90s as its title suggests.

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    Independent Nets Evolve Ad Strategy

    A group of independent programmers, including UPtv and Great American Media, are evolving their advertising strategies to meet agencies where they are amid all the big-player consolidation.

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    What’s Ahead for Programmer Earnings

    A busy earnings season will next see the programmers step onto the stage. Up next week are Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. Discovery, Nexstar, Fox Corp., Versant, Disney and more. You can guess what will be on the minds of several of these companies: consolidation and the regulatory challenges involved.

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    Great American Media Looks Ahead at Five

    Faith and family entertainment programmer Great American Media turned five years old in July, but as nice as it is to look back at what’s been achieved, the company is also full speed ahead on future expansion.

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    Netflix’s Cloud Gaming Progress

    Delphi Interactive CEO Casper Daugaard breaks down the strategy behind “FIFA World Cup: Launch Edition,” a new cloud-based soccer title for Netflix that launched on the first day of the real-life tournament.

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    Versant’s ‘Scrappy’ Sports Strategy

    In the Versant era, one of the spaces SVP, Strategy and Business Development Celia Kohl is focused on is women’s sports.

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    In the Wild: AMC’s Lestat Wows Live on Stage

    It’s not every day that you get to watch one of your favorite characters come to life, but AMC Global Media gave Anne Rice fans just that during a “The Vampire Lestat” premiere event at the Beacon Theatre in NYC.

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