Matthew Keys
@matthewkeys
Journalist who covers the transformation of the media industry after working in it for years. Previously worked for Reuters, Disney-ABC, Tribune Media. Sacramento = Home. Light the Beam 🔦🟣 🌐: matthewkeys.net ✏️: @thedesk.net 📧: matthew@matthewkeys.net
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but do not buy a $300 toaster unless it can go on a cross-country adventure with a heating pad, radio, lamp and vacuum cleaner to find you when you’re 20. (And make the air conditioner crash out.)
I am very surprised that more people are not discussing the fact that former presidential candidate Andrew Yang is a contestant on a Fox game show called "Nation's Dumbest," where he and other celebrities try to prove that they are, in fact, not stupid.
CBS and Fox stations and affiliates are the only ones carrying President Donald Trump's prime-time speech. CBS News is airing the speech on a delay and occasionally interrupting it for context from Major Garrett. Fox is taking the speech in its entirety, live.
Speaking to lawmakers on Wednesday, BBC Director-General Matt Brittin said 9 million people watched the live telecast of Mexico-England at the FIFA World Cup — its biggest audience after hours — another 5 million people watched replays and 1.5 million watched a rebroadcast on BBC 2.
NEW: Flock, a provider of law enforcement tools like drones and license plate readers, has asked the FCC for a waiver to its foreign import rules that allows it to use Chinese-made antennas, per filings reviewed by @thedesk.net.
It's one thing to get the story on Samuel Alito's retirement wrong. It's another thing to get the circumstances of NPR's retraction wrong. @kellymcb.bsky.social originally wrote that Nina Totenberg misheard Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. That isn't what happened.
Southwest Airlines called the sheriff's department on a Sacramento musician for the crime of *checks notes* wanting to fly with her guitar as her carry-on item. (Disclosure: She's in a band with my partner.)
Here's the rest of the exchange. I really did try to get an interview with the Chairman. I would have given him the same fair shake, but subjected him to the same tough questions, as everyone else I interview. Invitation is still there.
Ah, my text messages were the ones Carr sent to himself. Here they are.
Don't want to venture too far down the rabbit hole of crypto bros, but the "fan" who ran onto the court during Game 1 of the NBA Finals is part of the same group of dumbasses that "streaked" during a PGA tournament, crashed a Clippers game and ran onto the diamond of a baseball game.
NEW: YouTube says Fox One is now available through its YouTube Primetime Channels marketplace, marking the third streaming market to add the Fox-owned service. (Amazon's Prime Video Channels and The Roku Channel's Premium Subscriptions are the other two.)
Here are the weekly viewership trends over that same time period. Individual episodes did cross the 10 million mark in some weeks, but not on a consistent basis. The CECOT story incident proved to be a massive turning point.
The NTSB has released sound spectrum analysis for YEARS. Now, the Trump administration's NTSB has pulled its entire public docket, and locked up decades of public records, because of its mistake. Unprecedented. We will be FOIA'ing the hell out of this matter.
Two sources at Nexstar Media Group confirm to me the broadcaster's CBS affiliates will stop using news reports and live feeds from CBS NewsPath in the coming weeks. The move comes after Nexstar's NBC affiliates stopped using a similar service from NBC News earlier this year.
Bloomberg Radio has switched from CBS News Radio to ABC News Radio for its top-of-the-hour headlines; CBS News Radio will shut down later this month.
Spirit Airlines said in their press release that rising jet fuel prices — not their failed merger attempt with JetBlue — is the reason why they've been forced to shut down operations.
#BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice says it is reviewing Paramount's request for FCC approval to receive foreign investments for its merger with Warner Bros Discovery in excess of what is currently allowed under federal rules.
The NFL Draft drew an average audience of 7.632 million viewers across its three-day telecast, according to fresh numbers released by Nielsen. The event topped out during the first day, with just under 13 million viewers on ABC, ESPN and NFL's platforms. (Nielsen uses "rounds" for "days.")
Trump publishes a photo of the person detained for the shooting at the Hilton during the White House Corespondents’ Dinner.
NEW: @agomezfcc.bsky.social the lone Democratic commissioner at the FCC, out with a statement after a federal judge blocked Nexstar's acquisition of TEGNA through a preliminary injunction while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds.
The Mediaite One Sheet that went out today contained a generic "staff" by line. Its Top Read was a write-up on the mess involving its founding editor Colby Hall, who usually writes the One Sheet newsletter, with its report citing @oliverdarcy.bsky.social and his Status newsletter.
"We intentionally ran him over — you shoot at cops, we run you over." The Sheriff of Tulare County, California confirms an armored vehicle killed a man suspected of fatally shooting a deputy earlier this morning. www.yourcentralvalley.com/porterville-...
AMC Global Media (formerly AMC Networks) is bringing all seven seasons of the HBO show "Tales From the Crypt" to its horror streaming service Shudder. The show will be uncensored on Shudder when it starts streaming on May 1.
Comcast has introduced new StreamSaver bundles that offer Peacock, Netflix, HBO Max, the Disney Plus-Hulu package and Apple TV at varying price points. The most-expensive plan costs $35 per month and offers access to all five services.
Is this some inside joke I don’t get? “Three narcissists flail in a TV interview, offering incoherent answers and awkward silence.”