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09/09/15: Media General buys Meredith for $2.4 billion; She lost her crown, but Vanessa Williams gets the royal treatment on Miss America; Patti Stanger rebounds with WE tv

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09/09/15: Media General acquires Meredith Corp.; YouTube tries to punish ad-blockers; Snapchat partners with Comedy Central

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 09.09.15 Good morning. It’s Wednesday September 9, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S TOP NEWS   Quite literally a big deal: Media General acquired Meredith Corp. for a whopping $2.4 billion. Media General already owned or operated 71 television stations nationwide, and will now be the third largest TV […]

09/09/15: NBA plants a postseason shakeup; NFL mulls a return trip to Mars; FanDuel finds favor with Patrick

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CYNOPSISSPORTS 09.09.15 Good morning. It’s Wednesday September 9, 2015, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.  The NBA is shaking up its playoff seedings. The league announced that the NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved changes to seeding and qualification procedures that will now see the eight postseason teams in each conference seeded […]

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09/08/15: Colbert on Late Show debut: “It’s nice to not have to pretend anymore”; TBS cancels King of the Nerds; Has TV Everywhere reached a tipping point?

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09/08/15: Verizon will soon debut Go90 video service; Amazon acquires Elemental Technologies; Google updates Chrome browser

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 09.08.15 Good morning. It’s Tuesday September 8, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. Watcheroo Premieres and Tune-in Alerts for September 7-13: – People Now at People.com, Monday-Friday at 8:30a ET and 11:30a ET: Guests include TV personality Whitney Thore (My Big Fat Fabulous Life), actress Ashley Madekwe (Salem), TV […]

09/08/15: Mark Silverman’s BTN mantra; College football kicks off on high note; NFL Digital Media has a new playbook

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CYNOPSISSPORTS 09.08.15 Good morning. It’s Tuesday September 8, 2015, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.  With the launch of the new college football season underway and all eyes looking to dethrone Ohio State atop the championship mantle, Big Ten Network now finds itself hitting its ninth season on the air bolstered by […]

09/04/15: Empire helps Fox move to the head of the class; 24’s Kim Raver headed to Bones; Discovery Networks International wants Sex, Lies and Online Affairs

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CYNOPSIS 09.04.15 Good morning. It’s Friday September 4, 2015, and this is your first early morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres: Discovery: Bering Sea Gold at 9p DFC: Babies Behaving Badly at 8p ID: Death by Gossip With Wendy Williams at 9p World: In Their Own Words at 8p Saturday’s Premieres: ABC: Saturday Night College Football at […]

09/04/15: AOL announced it has acquired Millenial Media for $250 million; Netflix announces cast of upcoming series Lady Dynamite; Stephen Colbert reaches out to millennials on Snapchat

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 09.04.15 Good morning. It’s Friday September 4, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TOP NEWS   The War on Drugs continues. Netflix has already renewed Narcos for a second season. The series, about notorious cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, debuted a week ago to strong reviews.      More Netflix news: Lady […]

09/04/15: Tom Brady cleared for Kickoff; Schilling ejected from the mound; UFC nabs a Lion

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CYNOPSISSPORTS 09.04.15 Good morning. It’s Friday September 4, 2015, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.  Yesterday’s news that US District Judge Richard Berman wiped out Tom Brady’s four-game suspension caused a media firestorm looking at the winners and losers of the Deflategate accusations and its ramifications moving forward. While the NFL will […]

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