In a last minute move before trial on April 18th, Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company, Dominion, over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election. The news network agreed to pay $787.5 million (€720m) – around half of the $1.6 billion initially sought by Dominion. Dominion had argued its business […]
Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan (pictured) are on the witnesses list of voting-machine maker Dominion for their landmark defamation trial next month. Lawyers have listed more than 50 witnesses that they intend to question during the six-week trial in Delaware, including the Murdochs, Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott and Fox primetime stars Tucker […]
Rupert Murdoch described allegations that the 2020 US election was stolen as “damaging” and “crazy” even though his Fox News continued to air the claims, according to depositions in the defamation lawsuit against the network by Dominion, the voting machine company. Apparently, Murdoch repeatedly emailed his concerns to Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott. Those […]
FOX News Channel’s (FNC) midterm election primetime coverage (8-11PM/ET) dominated all broadcast and cable television networks, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. FNC’s primetime coverage delivered 7,422,000 viewers and 1,879,000 in the 25-54 younger demographic, making it the highest-rated election night coverage in all of television in total viewers and the A25-54 demographic, beating […]
Truth Social, the social media platform from former US President Donald Trump, has been barred from the Google Play store. Google said the platform violates its content policies on threats and incitement to violence. The removal makes it difficult for users with Android phones to download the app. Truth Social’s CEO said the decision on […]
A Delaware judge has rejected a motion by Fox Corp to dismiss Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion (€1.52bn) defamation lawsuit over the Fox News 2020 presidential election coverage. Superior Court Judge Eric Davis, who last December said Dominion could sue Fox News Network, said the voting machine company can also sue Fox Corp because it […]
As the US 2022 political races begin to heat up and the 2024 presidential election looms overhead, MiQ – a global programmatic media partner – has released the findings of a report titled, The Political Media Remix: How Digital Can Make Political TV Buys Smarter. The findings show that both Republican and Democratic advertisers missed […]
A group of local US broadcasters led by The E.W. Scripps Company have come together to serve political advertisers with broad audience reach on connected TV platforms during what’s expected to be a record election-spending year. Cox Media Group, Capitol Broadcasting Company, Graham Media Group and other broadcasters are participating in the initiative. “Collectively, we […]
Magna, the media-centric market research conpany, has reduced its 2022 advertising spending growth expectation in the US due to economic and geopolitical uncertainty, but it forecasts that media owners’ ad revenues will still grow by +11 per cent this year to pass the $300 billion (€268.6bn) milestone. In its final 2021 estimates, US advertising revenues […]
Chinese technology company Huawei saw revenues for 2021 of 636.8 billion Chinese yen (€89.6bn), but this is dramatically down on the 891.4 billion yen revenue for 2020 – a fall of 28.5 per cent. The biggest hit was to the company’s consumer business, no longer being allowed access to Google’s Playstore for example, which saw […]