MEDIA

"The last Walt Disney Co.-owned radio station is officially in the hands of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, which has closed on the $5 million purchase of KRDC Los Angeles (1110) and placed its religious teaching 'K-Wave' programming on the AM signal." - Inside Radio

Or even most things! Only things you care about. (Or so it seems.) - The New York Times

"That structure was created at the last big strike in 1960. The business has no resemblance to that anymore. When you cut down the amount of episodes per season from six or eight or ten, that used to be 22 to 28, and you cut back on the amount of seasons that make up a series, that old residual...

The deal puts Disney networks like ESPN and ABC back on Charter’s cable service, but also allows Charter to drop several of them, even as Charter agrees to pay Disney for making some of its streaming services available to customers. - Variety

You might not think it from his movies about violent men, but you can see it masterfully done in the 30-year-old Age of Innocence. - LitHub

Emma Stone is Frankenstein's monster, but a feminist one. - Globe and Mail (Canada)

She writes, "I want to be there to provide what writers do so well, which is a way to bring us together or help us make sense of the human experience." What that has to do with writers and actors on strike, no one knows (but the writers are picketing). - Vulture

Set designers say sledgehammers are important - and don't forget eBay. - The New York Times

He started saying he'd retire before Gen-Z was born - and his new film, The Boy and the Heron, cements the feeling of hope from his fans. - The Verge

That is, hey, the WGA is totally open to new deals with studios who think Netflix is hurting them. - Washington Post

"Controversy over Venice (Festival) title Green Border continues to heat up as director Agnieszka Holland gave an ultimatum to Poland's Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro following his comments about her film. … She is demanding a public apology and payment to The Association of Children of the Holocaust in Poland." - Variety

“I fear a future in which they can only hire one writer. They’ll have an AI, you know, churn out a script based on a large language model. … And then they’ll pay one writer to rewrite it and make it human.” - Washington Post

"Now, it can make or break them — with implications for how films are perceived, released, marketed, and possibly even green-lit. The Tomatometer may be the most important metric in entertainment, yet it's also erratic, reductive, and easily hacked." Here's how it got that way. - New York Magazine

"Roku will cut more than 300 staffers … as the streaming-platform company continues its battle to control costs. In addition, Roku will remove certain licensed and owned content from its platform as part of a 'strategic review of its content portfolio,' resulting in an impairment charge of up to $65 million." - Variety

"The company said in a regulatory filing that it now expects 2023 adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to be between $10.5 billion and $11 billion, down from $11-to-$11.5 billion. … Warner Bros. Discovery owns HBO and Max, CNN, TNT and a host of other entertainment outlets." - AP