Oprah Winfrey’s podcast lands at Amazon as part of multiyear deal

Oprah Winfrey’s podcast lands at Amazon as part of multiyear deal

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s podcast is headed to Amazon. Winfrey’s production company, Harpo Entertainment, struck a multiyear deal to give Amazon-owned Wondery exclusive distributing and advertising rights to “The Oprah Podcast,” the companies announced Monday. Under the agreement, Winfrey’s podcast will expand to two new episodes a week starting this…

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Technologist And Media Vet David Dibble Named Vice Chairman Of Sphere

Technologist And Media Vet David Dibble Named Vice Chairman Of Sphere

David Dibble, a technologist and former senior executive at Cablevision and Yahoo, has been named vice chairman of Sphere. The appointment by Sphere Entertainment will formalize Dibble’s work helping executives at the entertainment, tech and live event firm explore opportunities for Sphere’s proprietary technologies. Sphere’s lone location thus far is in Las Vegas, which has…

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The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology

The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology

Our go-to tale of resistance to technology is the story of the Luddites: In England in the early nineteenth century, skilled weavers and craftsmen found their livelihoods threatened by automated machinery, so they began to attack textile factories, destroying the machinery with hammers. Less familiar are the revolutionaries who used large clubs to smash thousands…

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Anna Handler to become the Los Angeles Philharmonic's conductor-in-residence

Anna Handler to become the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s conductor-in-residence

With Gustavo Dudamel’s final season as music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic reaching its homestretch, the orchestra has announced the appointment of its latest not music director. Anna Handler, a former Dudamel fellow and rapidly rising young conductor, will be given the new title of conductor-in-residence for the next three seasons. She…

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