Investment firm Donerail Group and newspaper publishers McClatchy Co. and AIM Media submitted bids Thursday for Tribune Publishing Co., according to Bloomberg.
The TV analytics market size is expected to grow from nearly $2 billion in 2018 to $4.2 billion by 2023, per a new market research report from MarketsandMarkets.
Why it matters: As TV goes digital, there is a growing need to better analyze data that is being used to fuel advertising campaigns, and the data used to measure how they perform.
Recode.net, the tech website that was acquired by Vox Media in 2015, is moving to Vox.com, a website also owned by Vox Media, amid a management restructuring.
Why it matters: It's the second standalone brand that has adapted under the Vox umbrella this year. In June, Axios reported that Racked, the retail website that Vox Media acquired in 2013, would be folded into a new section on Vox.com called The Goods.
HBO and Cinemax, two premium cable channels that are owned by AT&T, have gone dark for more than 10 million Dish Pay TV subscribers and 2.5 million Sling TV subscribers, a digital TV package owned by Dish.
Why it matters: It's the first time HBO, which is considered a must-have premium channel for many consumers, has been blocked to customers over a distribution deal disagreement.
In an interview with "Axios on HBO," President Trump said his supporters like him more when he dials up his attacks on the media and that he is "doing a service" by labeling those who cover him unfairly or inaccurately "the enemy of the people."
The big picture: Trump's core base might enjoy his fiery rhetoric, but several of the president's close allies have broken with him when it comes to his characterization of the media. That includes his own daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump, who told Axios in August that while she has been the subject of stories she knows to be false, she doesn't consider the media to be the enemy.
A boom in new technologies, like digital TV ads, peer-to-peer texting, digital billboards and more, has made it easier for political campaigns to reach voters anywhere, at any time.
Why it matters: Newer, cheaper options to reach voters have made it harder for campaigns to make their messages stand out.
President Trump,in an interview with Axios that will premiere Sunday on HBO, says railing against his enemies in the media helped him win — and that his supporters like him more when he cranks up the "enemy of the people" rhetoric.
Why it matters: In modern American history, no other president argued it’s not his job to calm people in a moment of high tension and unease, especially in the days following deadly domestic terrorism.
Disney has announced that network veteran Russell Wolff will be the executive vice president and general manager of ESPN+, the direct-to-consumer service that launched in April 2018.
Why it matters: Last month, ESPN announced that ESPN+ had surpassed 1 million subscriptions, the majority of which were not pre-existing "ESPN Insider subscribers." Wolff will be responsible for managing ESPN+, and he will help the overall management and commercialization of ESPN-branded digital products.
Simulmedia, one of the oldest TV advertising tech companies, has created a digital marketplace that will help small companies buy TV ads digitally at scale.
Why it matters: For new direct-to-consumer companies (think Dollar Shave Club or Away that launched online), TV marketing can be very expensive and hard to measure. This will bring down that barrier to entry by allowing brands to buy TV ads at a small scale, for less money, in a way that can be measured and tracked through digital ad tech.
