Twitter should suspend President Donald Trump’s account for “repeated violations” of company policy by spreading election disinformation, Common Cause and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law wrote CEO Jack Dorsey Thursday. The platform labeled as potentially misleading several tweets by the president about the election. Trump made unsubstantiated claims of victory in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina and about ballot processing violations, the groups wrote. Twitter and the White House didn’t comment.

TiVo announced application programming interface-based metadata technology to make it easier for consumers to find relevant programming and movies. It signed a multiyear extension and expansion of an agreement with Finnish digital services company Elisa Viihde for the tech, saying Wednesday the Deep Discovery package lets TV and video service providers, CE manufacturers and media companies “better maximize the value of their catalogs and drive conversion, engagement and loyalty.” Content is tagged with metadata like moods, tones, themes, weighted keywords, age descriptors and popularity.

The FCC Media Bureau OK'd TV market modification for KVMD Twentynine Palms, California, to include Los Angeles designated market area communities served by Charter Communications' Spectrum cable systems where KVMD currently isn't being carried on a mandatory basis. The order came Tuesday.

Microsoft gave a hat tip to Apple TV+ in a Monday announcement listing streaming apps that will be available on the Xbox Series S and Series X when the consoles go on sale Nov. 10. Other apps include Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Spotify, YouTube, YouTube TV, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, NBC Peacock, Vudu, FandangoNow, Twitch, Sky Go, Now TV and Sky Ticket, it said. Apple TV+ goes live on the Xbox One the same day, Microsoft said.

Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, ESPN and TLC are the top five national nonbroadcast networks effective July 1 for purposes of FCC audio description rules that MVPD systems above a certain size provide 87.5 hours of audio description quarterly on channels carrying each of those networks, said a Media Bureau public notice Monday. It said the top five list is updated at three-year intervals to account for changes in Nielsen ratings.

The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' reversal of a dismissal of a class-action antitrust complaint against DirecTV and the NFL over the MVPD's Sunday Ticket package (see 1908140015), but don't take that as backing the 9th Circuit decision, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in a docket 19-1098 statement Monday. He said the 9th Circuit decision is "of such legal and economic significance" that it might warrant SCOTUS review, but the case being at the motion-to-dismiss stage "is a factor counseling against this Court’s review at this time." He said the 9th Circuit seemed to agree antitrust law might require teams to negotiate individual contracts for their own games with DirecTV, but "that conclusion appears to be in substantial tension with antitrust principles and precedents." Kavanaugh said the plaintiff sports bars and restaurants may not have antitrust standing to sue the NFL and the individual teams. He said the league, teams and DirecTV defendants "have substantial arguments on the law," and if they don't prevail at summary judgment or during trial, they can come back to SCOTUS with a new cert petition. Outside counsel for the defendants didn't comment. The court said Justice Amy Coney Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision on the petition for writ of certiorari.

Red Ventures completed its $500 million acquisition of CNET Media Group from ViacomCBS, said the buyer Friday. Red Ventures announced the deal in mid-September, saying it was “eager to invest” in CNET’s growth “with more personalized consumer experiences” so it could “reinvigorate” CNET's various brands.

Representatives of NCTA, NAB and media companies told FCC Wireless and International bureau staff that reimbursing the costs incumbent satellite operators face for burying integrated receiver decoder equipment is important to the C-band transition. “This equipment is essential to compressing programmer services and thereby enabling the freeing up of the lower 300 MHz in the C-band,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 18-122.

Though Imax will likely resume “impressive top and bottom-line growth,” 2021 may still be challenging, Colliers analyst Steven Frankel wrote investors Friday. With several high-profile Imax films delayed a year, the “blockbuster slate” looks “satisfactory,” said Frankel, but he expects significantly slower screen growth next year as theater partners look to shore up their financial positions. Crowds will return to theaters in North America and Europe once a COVID-19 vaccine is introduced, said Frankel, who expects Imax to resume market share expansion. Noting the company’s strong cash position, Frankel said results during pandemic-related theater closures and periods of low utilization “have little impact on our 2022 estimates.” Imax reported a 56% Q3 revenue drop Thursday (see 2010290060) to $37.3 million.

Comcast's ad-supported Peacock streaming service has close to 22 million sign-ups since its July launch, is starting to help with churn, and is playing a role in increased broadband subscriptions, CEO Brian Roberts said Thursday as Comcast announced Q3 financial results. It ended the quarter with 27.84 million broadband subscribers, up 1.8 million year over year, Comcast said. It said revenue for the quarter was $25.5 billion, down from $26.8 billion last year. Roberts said Comcast is focusing on a three-pronged strategy of broadband, streaming and aggregation or bundling of services. He said its Flex streaming service and platform for broadband-only subscribers now has more than 1 million monthly active users, which more than offsets the decline in the number of traditional pay-TV video subscribers for the past two quarters. Comcast said it ended the quarter with 19.2 million video subscribers, down 1.2 million year over year. Roberts said Comcast's theme park business is still hurting from the global pandemic but is expected at least break even in 2021. Chief Financial Officer Mike Cavanagh said Comcast has spent $239 million in COVID-19 pandemic-related restructuring and severance costs so far this year and expects to spend about $480 million more in Q4. Comcast said it ended the quarter with 2.6 million mobile subscriptions. It said the wireless business is being hurt somewhat by some retail stores remaining closed due to COVID-19, but the vast majority are now open. Comcast said it ended the quarter with 9.68 million residential voice customers, down 270,000 year over year.