• Comcast Partners With Netflix
    Comcast is working with Netflix to bring the streaming service to its X1 cloud-based TV platform. “The deal is surprising because the two companies have been at odds in the past over issues such as data caps, delivery speeds and net neutrality,” USA Today notes. “Both companies released a statement Tuesday announcing their plans to collaborate and make Netflix's streaming service available to Xfinity X1 customers later this year.”
  • Vice Acquires Garage, The Magazine
    Vice will use the British art, design and architecture magazine to start its own arts channel. Vice intends to start six new verticals this year. Garage already posts video on YouTube. 
  • Poynter Online Journo Ed, Program Gets Big Grant
    The Knight Foundation gave the Poynter Institute $758,000 to revamp its popular News University online journalism program, which served 102,000 students last year. 
  • Who To Watch For At Sun Valley
    Among many others, Katzenberg, Malone, Iger, Jack Dorsey, and perhaps most fun of all Shari Redstone and Philippe Dauman, will all be at Sun Valley this week for the Allen & Co.  annual moguls' get together. 
  • Martha Stewart Finds Facebook Live Is A Good Thing
  • Disney Buys Stake In MLB Video Unit
    Walt Disney has agreed to buy a one-third stake in the video-streaming unit of MLB Advanced Media. The deal values the business at about $3.5 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing a source. “Disney, the owner of ESPN and ABC, will also obtain a four-year option to buy an additional 33 percent stake in the digital arm of Major League Baseball,” Bloomberg writes.
  • Disney Buys Big Stake in MLB Media, Report Says
    Walt Disney Co. agreed to acquire a one-third stake in MLB Advanced Media according to Bloomberg, with an option to buy more. That shows the importance Disney"s ESPN puts on sports streaming when MLB is in a league of its own. (Could be big news for MLB owners, too, who would likely share in the windfall.) 
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