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...Apple introduced spatial audio to its music streaming service in 2021, at no additional cost to subscribers. Amazon’s music service also offers spatial audio....
...Next month, the EU is also set to impose its first fine — which people familiar with the matter suggest will be in the region of €500mn — for allegedly breaking EU law over access to its music streaming...
...The Super Bowl is also an important platform for other industries, from brewers, carmakers and other brands that spent $7mn for each 30 seconds of advertising time, to the music industry where older stars...
...Universal Music is set to pull its songs from TikTok after a breakdown in negotiations over payment, which would remove the social media platform’s access to music from stars such as Taylor Swift, The Weeknd...
...She said this amounted to abuse of the group’s dominant position for music streaming on its App Store....
...The allure of the streaming entertainment era is the opportunity to consume shows and music à la carte. Media mergers and acquisitions should proceed similarly....
...The dominant video streamer announced on Tuesday that it had secured the broadcast rights for WWE’s flagship programme, Raw. It is set to pay TKO, WWE’s parent, $5bn over a decade....
...Live sports broadcasts remain the primary draw for the companies’ linear TV businesses, which have been in decline for years because of cord-cutting....
...The deal, which starts in January 2025, will significantly expand Netflix’s use of the technology that is required to broadcast live sporting events....
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...At first glance, the €1.8bn fine for stifling competition in music streaming is not a lethal problem for the company....
...It was not immediately clear how many of the TGL matches would be broadcast over ESPN’s cable networks or on its proprietary streaming platforms....
...The traditional broadcast networks were left waiting for video tapes of the fight to be flown in from the Philippines, and Levin’s career was transformed overnight....
...The long boom in football broadcast rights appears to have ended. So what comes next? The FT’s data wonk John Burn-Murdoch has run through the numbers....
...Pitchfork describes Eternal Sunshine as an “emotionally generous collection of music that cycles compassionately through the collapse of one relationship and into the hopeful beginning of another”....
...Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google parent Alphabet and music streaming service Spotify are among the companies that have signalled plans to strike such a balance this year....
...Companies such as BMW and Ford enable cars to sync to smartphones, allowing drivers to play music or unlock their vehicle. Eventually, that could extend to autonomous driving controls too....
...Audio mix and original music by Breen Turner. Broadcast engineer is Rod Fitzgerald. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Making calls and listening to music is already possible. Consultancy Precedence Research expects telecoms to be the largest market for AI hardware....
...The director is Carrie Cracknell, formerly associate director at London’s Young Vic theatre and known widely for her productions at the National Theatre, including Medea and Julie, both broadcast to cinemas...
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