Inbox: ABC will air Black Panther commercial free tonight, to be followed by an ABC News special celebrating the life of Chadwick Boseman.
Alex Weprin
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Alex Weprin
@alexweprin
Enthusiast. Senior Editor @THR writing about business, finance, TV, media, sports, and other stuff. Previously: @MediaPost, @POLITICO @TVNewser, @BCBeat
NYC metro
Joined April 2008
- Probably the most amazing thing about Donald Trump’s tax returns that I’ve spotted so far is that in 2015 he recorded $12,000 in expenses related to the New Jersey Generals… the football team he owned that went under in 1985.
- Inbox: Gov. Andrew Cuomo will receive an international Emmy award, “in recognition of his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world.”
- Inbox: Joe and Jill Biden will guest on CBS’ Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday.
- Oh wow, Brian Flores suing the NFL and NY Giants, alleging racism in hiring. Includes private texts from Bill Belichick wigdorlaw.com/wp-content/upl…
- It appears Instagram and FB owner Meta holds the trademark for "X" as it relates to "online social networking services... social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming and application development..." tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87…Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextMeta owns the trademark for an X logo described as: "The mark consists of a stylized letter "X". The left side of the "X" is white and the right side of the "X" is blue. [...]" - It doesn't own the letter X or current Logo used by X. Source: tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87…
- Replying to @alexweprinFlores says that Stephen Ross, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, offered to pay him $100,000 for every loss during 2019 season to help the team get a better draft spot. Was mad when they kept winning.
- WHOA. James Murdoch has resigned from the board of News Corp. Per the company "Mr. Murdoch informed the Company that his resignation was due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions."
- Elon Musk once again selling billions of dollars worth of Tesla stock. sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
- Replying to @alexweprinFlores' suit includes texts from Bill Belichick that appear to show him congratulating him on getting the Giants job, mistakenly believing he was texting Brian Daboll. This was before Flores' interview with the Giants took place.
- Just in: Disney is pausing all business in Russia, includes licensing of products, linear TV channels, and even sales of National Geographic magazine.
- CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl was hospitalized with COVID-19, she revealed on the broadcast tonight. Now out and recovered.
- Inbox: "Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning Britain."
- Per CNN, 48M people watched last night's debate across TV. But here's a number that stuck out to me. Fewer than 4M of those viewers were age 18-34. It was an old, old audience.