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COPENHAGEN, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Iceland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, the country's public broadcaster RUV said on Wednesday, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union last week cleared Israel's participation. The decision to allow Israel to take part in the next Eurovision, which will be held in Vienna in May, earlier prompted Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Slovenia to withdraw in protest, citing Israel's conduct in the Gaza war. "It is clear from the public debate in this country and the reaction to the EBU's decision last week that there will be neither joy nor peace regarding RUV's participation," the broadcaster's Director General Stefan Eiriksson said in a statement. Iceland was among the countries that had requested a vote last week on Israel's participation. But the European Broadcasting Union, or EBU, decided not to call a vote on Israel's participation, saying it had instead passed new rules aimed at discouraging governments from influencing the contest. Iceland has never won the song contest but came second in 1999 and 2009. The Eurovision Song Contest dates back to 1956 and reaches around 160 million viewers, according to the EBU. (Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen in Copenhagen and Essi Lehto in Helsinki, editing by Terje Solsvik)

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COPENHAGEN, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Iceland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, the country's public broadcaster RUV said on Wednesday, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union last week cleared Israel's participation. The decision to allow Israel to take part in the next Eurovision, which will be held in Vienna in May, earlier prompted Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Slovenia to withdraw in protest, citing Israel's conduct in the Gaza war. "It is clear from the public debate in this country and the reaction to the EBU's decision last week that there will be neither joy nor peace regarding RUV's participation," the broadcaster's Director General Stefan Eiriksson said in a statement. Iceland was among the countries that had requested a vote last week on Israel's participation. But the European Broadcasting Union, or EBU, decided not to call a vote on Israel's participation, saying it had instead passed new rules aimed at discouraging governments from influencing the contest. Iceland has never won the song contest but came second in 1999 and 2009. The Eurovision Song Contest dates back to 1956 and reaches around 160 million viewers, according to the EBU. (Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen in Copenhagen and Essi Lehto in Helsinki, editing by Terje Solsvik)

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Dec 10 (Reuters) – CBS News has named Tony Dokoupil anchor of its flagship “CBS Evening News” starting January 5 in one of the first major moves under new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as she overhauls the network. Weiss, who joined CBS News in October through Paramount Skydance’s purchase of her outlet The Free Press, is trying to revive the third-placed broadcast news network that has been losing viewers in the age of social media and online information. The former New York Times and Wall Street Journal opinion writer, known for her pro-choice views and for being proudly pro-Israel, has been tasked with reaching a broader audience. "CBS Evening News" has a storied history that reaches back to Walter Cronkite, the trusted anchorman who guided Americans through JFK's assassination and the Vietnam War, but its viewership, like the network, has been declining. In Dokoupil, she is turning to an Emmy award-winning journalist who has been with CBS News for nearly a decade and covered major stories, including the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He has interviewed major global leaders and celebrities such as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Dokoupil, who has co-hosted "CBS Mornings" since 2019, drew attention last year for his interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his book on Israel and Palestinians, where the CBS host suggested the content 'would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist' and pressed Coates on omissions about Israeli security concerns. The interview had received backlash from CBS executives that claimed Dokoupil brought his own bias to the stage, according to media reports. The Free Press strongly defended Dokoupil at the time, arguing he was wrongly admonished for doing legitimate journalism. Dokoupil "believes in old school journalistic values: asking the hard questions, following the facts wherever they lead and holding power to account," Weiss said in a statement on Wednesday.  "We live in a time in which many people have lost trust in the media. Tony Dokoupil is the person to win it back." CBS News on Tuesday also announced it hired veteran broadcast journalist Matt Gutman from ABC News as its chief correspondent, in the first on-air hire since Weiss took over.  (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Leroy Leo)

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Dec 10 (Reuters) – CBS News has named Tony Dokoupil anchor of its flagship “CBS Evening News” starting January 5 in one of the first major moves under new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as she overhauls the network. Weiss, who joined CBS News in October through Paramount Skydance’s purchase of her outlet The Free Press, is trying to revive the third-placed broadcast news network that has been losing viewers in the age of social media and online information. The former New York Times and Wall Street Journal opinion writer, known for her pro-choice views and for being proudly pro-Israel, has been tasked with reaching a broader audience. "CBS Evening News" has a storied history that reaches back to Walter Cronkite, the trusted anchorman who guided Americans through JFK's assassination and the Vietnam War, but its viewership, like the network, has been declining. In Dokoupil, she is turning to an Emmy award-winning journalist who has been with CBS News for nearly a decade and covered major stories, including the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He has interviewed major global leaders and celebrities such as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Dokoupil, who has co-hosted "CBS Mornings" since 2019, drew attention last year for his interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his book on Israel and Palestinians, where the CBS host suggested the content 'would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist' and pressed Coates on omissions about Israeli security concerns. The interview had received backlash from CBS executives that claimed Dokoupil brought his own bias to the stage, according to media reports. The Free Press strongly defended Dokoupil at the time, arguing he was wrongly admonished for doing legitimate journalism. Dokoupil "believes in old school journalistic values: asking the hard questions, following the facts wherever they lead and holding power to account," Weiss said in a statement on Wednesday.  "We live in a time in which many people have lost trust in the media. Tony Dokoupil is the person to win it back." CBS News on Tuesday also announced it hired veteran broadcast journalist Matt Gutman from ABC News as its chief correspondent, in the first on-air hire since Weiss took over.  (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Leroy Leo)

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Dec 10 (Reuters) – Paramount Skydance-owned CBS News on Wednesday named Emmy award winning journalist Tony Dokoupil as the anchor of its flagship nightly newscast, "CBS Evening News", marking one of the first major moves by Bari Weiss as the news division's new lead. Paramount CEO David Ellison in October named Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News, the news division of U.S. broadcaster CBS, as part of a deal to acquire The Free Press, the online news site she founded and which has earned a reputation for challenging conventional narratives. (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)

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Dec 10 (Reuters) – Paramount Skydance-owned CBS News on Wednesday named Emmy award winning journalist Tony Dokoupil as the anchor of its flagship nightly newscast, "CBS Evening News." (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)

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Dec 10 (Reuters) – Paramount Skydance-owned CBS News on Wednesday named Emmy award winning journalist Tony Dokoupil as the anchor of its flagship nightly newscast, "CBS Evening News", marking one of the first major moves by Bari Weiss as the news division's new lead. Paramount CEO David Ellison in October named Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News, the news division of U.S. broadcaster CBS, as part of a deal to acquire The Free Press, the online news site she founded and which has earned a reputation for challenging conventional narratives. (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)

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Dec 10 (Reuters) – Paramount Skydance-owned CBS News on Wednesday named Emmy award winning journalist Tony Dokoupil as the anchor of its flagship nightly newscast, "CBS Evening News", marking one of the first major moves by Bari Weiss as the news division's new lead. Paramount CEO David Ellison in October named Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News, the news division of U.S. broadcaster CBS, as part of a deal to acquire The Free Press, the online news site she founded and which has earned a reputation for challenging conventional narratives. (Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)

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By Sam Tobin LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Jimi Hendrix's classic 1960s albums are the focus of a London lawsuit over performers' rights asserted on behalf of his British bassist and drummer against Sony Music Entertainment, which warns that a win for the claimants could "throw the music industry into chaos". Guitarist Noel Redding, who had recently auditioned for the 1960s blues-rock band The Animals, and pioneering drummer Mitch Mitchell joined The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966 and created some of the most renowned music of the decade. Redding and Mitchell played on the group's three studio albums "Are You Experienced", "Axis: Bold As Love" and "Electric Ladyland", released in 1967 and 1968 and featuring "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", "Foxy Lady" and other hits. The recordings helped usher in the psychedelic music age and made Hendrix a rock superstar before his untimely death in London in September 1970, aged 27. Five decades on, The Jimi Hendrix Experience's music remains both popular and profitable. Their albums are at the centre of a trial that began on Tuesday and seeks a share of potentially lucrative streaming royalties — a claim Sony says should be rejected. LAWSUIT CITES UNFORESEEN RISE OF STREAMING Redding and Mitchell died in 2003 and 2008 respectively and their descendants later assigned any rights they might have had to two companies, Noel Redding Estate Limited and Mitch Mitchell Estate Limited. The companies sued Sony at London's High Court in 2022 and are seeking a declaration that they own a share of the sound recording copyrights of, and performers' property rights in, the three Jimi Hendrix Experience albums. Sony's lawyers argue that in 1966 the band signed away the rights to exploit the recordings "by any method now known or hereafter to be known". They also cite releases agreed by Redding and Mitchell to drop lawsuits in the early 1970s. But the companies' lawyer Simon Malynicz said Sony's case relied on deals signed "long before the internet revolutionised music" and the rise of streaming platforms like Spotify. "The agreements from the 1960s and 1970s simply do not extend to the radically different modes of digital exploitation which underpin (Sony's) current business model," he said in court filings. Sony, however, raised concerns about the wider impact of the companies' case if they succeed, which it said could prompt a slew of lawsuits from session musicians and backing vocalists. Sony's lawyer Robert Howe said in court filings that "deals done with virtually every 1960s and 1970s artist, from The Beatles to the Berlin Philharmonic … would be vulnerable to retrospective attack". (Reporting by Sam Tobin, Editing by William Maclean)

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By Sam Tobin LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Jimi Hendrix's classic 1960s albums are the focus of a London lawsuit over performers' rights asserted on behalf of his British bassist and drummer against Sony Music Entertainment, which warns that a win for the claimants could "throw the music industry into chaos". Guitarist Noel Redding, who had recently auditioned for the 1960s blues-rock band The Animals, and pioneering drummer Mitch Mitchell joined The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1966 and created some of the most renowned music of the decade. Redding and Mitchell played on the group's three studio albums "Are You Experienced", "Axis: Bold As Love" and "Electric Ladyland", released in 1967 and 1968 and featuring "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", "Foxy Lady" and other hits. The recordings helped usher in the psychedelic music age and made Hendrix a rock superstar before his untimely death in London in September 1970, aged 27. Five decades on, The Jimi Hendrix Experience's music remains both popular and profitable. Their albums are at the centre of a trial that began on Tuesday and seeks a share of potentially lucrative streaming royalties — a claim Sony says should be rejected. LAWSUIT CITES UNFORESEEN RISE OF STREAMING Redding and Mitchell died in 2003 and 2008 respectively and their descendants later assigned any rights they might have had to two companies, Noel Redding Estate Limited and Mitch Mitchell Estate Limited. The companies sued Sony at London's High Court in 2022 and are seeking a declaration that they own a share of the sound recording copyrights of, and performers' property rights in, the three Jimi Hendrix Experience albums. Sony's lawyers argue that in 1966 the band signed away the rights to exploit the recordings "by any method now known or hereafter to be known". They also cite releases agreed by Redding and Mitchell to drop lawsuits in the early 1970s. But the companies' lawyer Simon Malynicz said Sony's case relied on deals signed "long before the internet revolutionised music" and the rise of streaming platforms like Spotify. "The agreements from the 1960s and 1970s simply do not extend to the radically different modes of digital exploitation which underpin (Sony's) current business model," he said in court filings. Sony, however, raised concerns about the wider impact of the companies' case if they succeed, which it said could prompt a slew of lawsuits from session musicians and backing vocalists. Sony's lawyer Robert Howe said in court filings that "deals done with virtually every 1960s and 1970s artist, from The Beatles to the Berlin Philharmonic … would be vulnerable to retrospective attack". (Reporting by Sam Tobin, Editing by William Maclean)

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