Fox sports and entertainment apps -- and the network’s Fox Nation subscription service -- will launch this month on Samsung 2017-2019 smart TVs, the company said Friday.

DOJ will ask a federal court to extend a 2010 consent decree on Live Nation’s buy of Ticketmaster until 2025, the department announced Thursday. After a settlement with Live Nation, the Antitrust Division will ask U.S. District Court in Washington to clarify and extend for five and a half years the final judgment in U.S. v. Ticketmaster. The final judgment allowed the transaction but prohibited “the company from retaliating against concert venues for using another ticketing company, threatening concert venues, or undertaking other specified actions against concert venues for ten years.” DOJ claims Live Nation repeatedly violated the order, and the company agreed to modify the judgment to “make clear that such conduct is prohibited.” The company said, “We believe this is the best outcome for our business, clients and shareholders as we turn our focus to 2020 initiatives.” The stock closed up 9.2 percent at $69.83.

Mobile streamer Ficto announced a slate of shows Wednesday that will debut with Q1 launch. The free platform seeks profit-sharing with creators. It has a beta submission platform.

The Supreme Court denied a Dish Network petition for writ of certiorari on Telephone Consumer Protection Act standing stemming from the $61 million TCPA judgment against the company (see 1905310003), said a docket 19-496 notice Monday.

Global music streaming revenue increased 2014-18 about 34 percent, comprising 47 percent of global recording industry revenue, the Computer & Communications Industry Association reported Monday. It said global revenue increased 27 percent. RIAA didn’t comment.

Platforms should be able to “rebut” the presumption viewers of youth-directed online content are underage, the Association of National Advertisers said. The commission collected comment in FTC-2019-0054 this week on reviewing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act rule (see 1912120062). Platforms shouldn’t be required to investigate user ages, ANA said: That "would be contrary to the ‘actual knowledge’ standard set forth in the COPPA statute, and would limit the ability of operators to offer such platforms (particularly smaller platforms).” Consumer groups say viewers of kid content should all be assumed to be under 13. TechFreedom sought clarifying the definition of “child-directed” content, asking to “reject the notion that merely ‘appealing to children’ or being ‘attractive to children’ qualifies as ‘child-directed,’ as COPPA requires.

Two pending broadcast deals could be affected by rules resurrected by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Prometheus IV, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai responded to House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J. On Oct. 22, Pallone questioned FCC approval, shortly after the court’s decision, of a deal in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that involved Gray owning two top-four stations (see 1910220044). “Because the Bureau’s action is plainly lawful and supported by substantial record evidence, there is no need to, much less plan to, reconsider it,” Pai told Pallone. Both pending deals also involve Gray, and neither would currently comply with the restored eight-voices test, Pai said. Gray seeks to buy KCPM Grand Forks, North Dakota, from G.I.G. North Dakota, pending since February 2018, Pai said. Gray sought approval in October to buy WYCI Saranac Lake, New York, from Cross Hill Communications. Gray hasn’t asked for a waiver in the Grand Forks deal but sought a failing-station waiver for the Saranac Lake transaction, the letter said. The FCC “has not yet taken action on either application and does not currently have a timetable,” Pai said. “We are evaluating our options for seeking further review of the Third Circuit’s decision.” Pai declined to provide Pallone with the agency’s internal legal analysis of the deal, “consistent with Commission practice in responding to Congressional document requests.” Departing from prior practice “would prejudice the Commission and chill the ability of attorneys to provide candid legal advice and guidance,” Pai said. His response dated Dec. 3 was posted Wednesday.

Nine station groups apparently affiliated with Sinclair asked the FCC to vacate a Media Bureau finding they violated per se good-faith negotiating standards in talks with AT&T (see 1911080036) or dismiss the MVPD's compliant with prejudice. In a docket 19-168 application for review Tuesday, Deerfield Media and the others said MB's position runs contrary to evidence that Duane Lammers of Max Retrans was negotiating for all the station groups, not just some, so AT&T did receive responses. The station groups said the bureau is threatening "outsized forfeitures" that could be "effectively a death sentence" for some of them. The amounts of the proposed penalties were redacted. AT&T didn't comment.

Initial results for the 2019 nationwide emergency alert system test show more participants filing their test results than in the 2018 test but a decrease in the percentage who received the test message, based on a comparison of public notices issued by the FCC Public Safety Bureau. Unlike the 2018 initial results PN, the 2019 document didn’t include a comparison with data from past tests. The two tests were conducted under different parameters, with the 2019 test using only the legacy EAS broadcast daisy chain system while the 2018 test involved the legacy system, the integrated public alert warning system, and wireless emergency alerts. Some 19,200 EAS participants filed results for the 2018 test, while 19,607 did so in 2019. Past PNs show 95.5 percent of test participants received the alert in 2018, 95.8 percent in 2017, and 84.3 percent in 2019. “One filer who submitted data on a timely basis on behalf of a significant number of EAS Participants made an obvious clerical error, which we have confirmed with the filer and corrected,” said a footnote now. The 2019 PN shows that 81.5 percent of participants retransmitted the alert, down from 91.8 percent in 2018. With the Federal Emergency Management Agency, "the Bureau will continue to analyze the results of the 2019 nationwide EAS test and release more detailed findings when available,” the PN said.

Vizio sold more than half a million smart TVs from Black Friday to Cyber Monday. 4K UHD TV sales rose 80 percent over the year-ago stretch, said the vendor Thursday. The company was aggressive with pricing heading into the holiday season. Cyber Monday, TVs had the steepest electronics discounts.