The Wrap | New York Times

Aereo’s honeymoon is over, as broadcast networks re-filed their petitions for an injunction this morning.

As The Wrap reports, ABC, CBS, NBC Universal and Fox Television Stations are among the parties who have asked judges to reconsider the 2nd Circuit District Appeals Court’s decision from earlier this month. The decision came down in favor of Aereo, whom the court ruled was not in violation of copyright law.

The networks’ complaints stem from Aereo’s business model. Aereo provides a live stream of broadcast television to its subscribers via a live Internet feed. The court’s ruling hinged on the fact that Aereo uses an individual antenna for each subscriber; the judges in a 2-1 decision said this constituted a “private” rather than “public” performance, which meant Aereo is in the clear.

The networks have filed suit against Aereo to stop the company from transmitting their broadcasts without giving the networks compensation. Speaking from the NAB Show last week in Las Vegas, News Corp. President and COO Chase Carey  threatened to move Fox’s broadcast channels to cable if Aereo continued to win in the courts.

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The longtime NBC sportscaster delivered a straight-to-camera commentary during halftime of the Sunday night broadcast, calling for tighter gun control after a Kansas City Chiefs player shot and killed his girlfriend and himself over the weekend. (more...)

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CNN and Jeff Zucker are close to an agreement that would place the former NBCUniversal chief executive in charge of the news channel, Brian Stelter reports. Time Warner CEO Jeffrey L. Bewkes and Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent "want someone who has programming and management and cable expertise; someone who can be credible to the staff and to the business community,” one source told Stelter.

Mr. Zucker could check off all those boxes. As a young NBC News producer, he helped start what became a 16-year winning streak for the “Today” show. He had mixed results as he moved up the rungs of NBC, but he can point to cable programming successes even as the NBC broadcast network struggled. He did not respond to requests for comment, and people with knowledge of the search insisted on anonymity to preserve friendships and business relationships.

Jim Walton announced his resignation as the head of CNN Worldwide in July, telling staff “CNN needs new thinking.” (more...)

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After a two-day suspension of his Twitter account, Guy Adams tweeted Tuesday afternoon:

Oh. My Twitter account appears to have been un-suspended. Did I miss much while I was away?

— Guy Adams (@guyadams) July 31, 2012

Twitter suspended the NBC Olympics critic, a journalist for the British newspaper The Independent, this weekend based on a complaint from NBC that Adams had tweeted the email address of a network executive. NBC vice president for communications Chris McCloskey said Twitter alerted the network, its partner for the Olympic games, to Adams' tweets. Soon after the complaint, Adams was suspended.

Adams quotes an email from Twitter today that says, "We have just received an update from the complainant retracting their original request ... Therefore your account has been unsuspended."

An unnamed NBC spokesman gave The Wall Street Journal this explanation today: "Our interest was in protecting our executive, not suspending the user from Twitter. We didn't initially understand the repercussions of our complaint, but now that we do, we have rescinded it." (more...)

Deadspin | The Independent | Felix
The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief, Guy Adams, lost access to his Twitter account because he revealed the corporate email address of an NBC executive on Twitter after complaining about the network's Olympic coverage, John Koblin writes.

Adams called Matt Lauer a "tosspot," savaged NBC for making people on the West Coast wait six hours to watch the opening ceremonies and shared NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel's work email address. Emails Koblin reproduces from Twitter say Adams got his account yanked because of that last one.

Your account has been suspended for posting an individual's private information such as private email address, physical address, telephone number, or financial documents. ...

It is a violation of the Twitter Rules to post the private and confidential information of others.

Except, it's not. Felix Salmon points out that Twitter's rules contain no such prohibition.

Reuters editor Matthew Keys says the suspension originated with a complaint by NBC: (more...)

Greenwich Time
Tom Brokaw will deliver the commencement address at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn., on June 1. Christine and Nicole Bloom are seniors at the school; their father, NBC correspondent and anchor David Bloom, died in Iraq in 2003 of deep vein thrombosis. Brokaw and Bloom were friends at the network, and Brokaw has been a "father figure" to Bloom's girls, Lisa Chamoff writes. The old "Today" set resides at Convent of the Sacred Heart's broadcast studio, Chamoff says, and Nicole Bloom hosts the school's monthly TV show, "Today From the Heart."

Brokaw spoke at Bloom's funeral in 2003, telling God, "If you want to know what's going on in your kingdom, check with David...By now he has all the names and all the phone numbers."

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NBC says the ad, made up almost entirely of video from a 1997 NBC News broadcast reporting on Newt Gingrich's reprimand by the U.S. House of Representatives on ethics charges, was used without permission and implies that NBC is supporting Romney. "I do not want my role as a journalist compromised for political gain by any campaign," Tom Brokaw says in a statement released by NBC. A campaign spokesman says the campaign doesn't plan to pull the commercial, arguing that the use of the video falls under fair use; Ken Paulson of the First Amendment Center agrees. Politico's Josh Gerstein reports that federal law and FCC regulations require TV stations to run all ads or none, so even stations owned and operated by NBC must run the ad unless the Romney campaign pulls it.

The Washington Post's Erik Wemple suggests that we look at the ad as a new standard of truth-telling in political advertising -- using Brokaw as a new Mr. Clean:

From now on, in order to level a hit on your political opponent, you are required to dig up footage of Tom Brokaw reciting your talking points. If you cannot find an instance in which Brokaw pronounced on the matter, it’s an illegitimate ad.

Related: "Mr. Romney’s aides say they can get a sense of where a story is headed before it is published simply by reading reporters’ Twitter messages." (The New York Times) | John Heilemann says the press is rooting for Newt Gingrich and will keep him on life support if he loses Florida's primary Tuesday (New York magazine)

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As part of the merger application for NBC Universal and Comcast, NBC had pledged to establish partnerships in five of its markets, modeled on the existing relationship between KNSD-TV and voiceofsandiego.org. "Effectively immediately," Brian Stelter reports, "NBC’s station in Chicago will work with The Chicago Reporter blog and magazine; its station in Philadelphia, with WHYY, a public radio station, and its community site NewsWorks; and its station in Los Angeles, with KPCC, a public radio station. All 10 of NBC’s stations will at times collaborate with ProPublica, the acclaimed investigative journalism nonprofit organization." KPCC's Bill Davis tells the LA Times' James Rainey that the partnership means "we can get to the kind of investigative and enterprise stories we wouldn’t be able to singularly." || Related: Study shows that nonprofits pull back on fundraising efforts after getting government grants (Nieman Journalism Lab) || Earlier: Nonprofit news orgs see validation, new funding in Comcast-NBC merger (Poynter.org)