Fun fact: Labor Day was born from the riots of anarchist laborers in 1886 who fought for an 8 hour workday. Here is an explainer and 4 minutes of oral history from C-SPAN on the riots that give us this Monday off.

Speaking of cable TV, labor disputes and the fight for rights:

• The studio CEOs meet this week and infight.

• Alan Wolk blows a few whistles in the VAB/Nielsen beef for the Week In Review and explains why Mark Thompson's road to success at CNN starts and ends with CNN.com.

• Meanwhile - Charter and Disney are squared off in a new bundle war.

Here's how Charter lays out a new bundle position... aside from the copy count, it's a pretty amazing slide

NEWS YOU CAN USE

Advertising

• WHY ADVERTISERS AREN’T MOVING TO STREAMING TV AS QUICKLY AS VIEWERS - Parker Herren [AdAge]

• Future of TV Briefing: CTV ad sellers are pushing more content-related signals into the programmatic bidstream - Tim Peterson [Digiday]

• Premion Campaign For Florida Auto Dealer Wins Advanced Advertising Innovation Award for Best Use of Data - Jon Lafayette [B+C]

• Mediaocean Will Make Magnite CTV Inventory Available to Local Buyers - Jon Lafayette [B+C]

• YOUTUBE KIDS’ AD PLACEMENT ISSUE RAISES BRAND DOUBTS BUT HASN’T HURT GOOGLE’S US AD REVENUE - Garett Sloane [AdAge]

Streaming Wars

• Disney To Offer Free Cricket As It Fights Back In India’s Streaming Wars - Liz Shackleton [Deadline]

• The Anticlimactic Death of the Streaming Wars - Angela Watercutter [Wired]

• Disney, Bob Iger, Bob Chapek Hit With Another Investors Suit Over “Fraudulent” Streaming Costs - Dominic Patten [Deadline]

• Streaming’s big pain point: there’s too much stuff to watch - Kelsey Sutton [Marketing Brew]

• TikTok Execs Reveal How TV & Films Go Viral on Their Platform - Andrew Wallenstein [Variety]

• Disney-owned channels, including ABC and ESPN, go dark on Charter Spectrum due to dispute - Simrin Singh [CBS News]

• Declining Ads And Streaming Upsurge Have Old-School TV Reeling - Toni Fitzgerald [Forbes]

Data & Measurement

• NIELSEN OPENS BIG DATA FOR TRADING WITHOUT MRC ACCREDITATION OR EXPLAINING SOME OF ITS FIGURES - Jack Neff [AdAge]

• Ad-Supported Apps Draw 66% of Connected TV Viewing: TVision Report - Jon Lafayette [B+C]

• NIELSEN AND TV NETWORKS CLASH AGAIN OVER AMAZON DATA AS MRC DEBATES ADOPTION - Jack Neff [AdAge]

• A+E Networks Signs With TVision for Linear, CTV Measurement - Jon Lafayette [B+C]

Landscape

• David Zaslav, Hollywood Antihero - Clare Malone [New Yorker]

• The SAG-AFTRA strike is the best thing to happen to Cameo, the short-video app where celebs get paid to make clips for fans, since the lockdowns - Kai Xiang Teo [Insider]

• Data Transparency Not Just For Advertisers: Writers, Actors Want The Same - Wayne Friedman [MediaPost]

• NBCU NAMES MARK MARSHALL AS CHAIRMAN OF ADVERTISING AND PARTNERSHIPS - Parker Herren [AdAge]

• CNN NAMES FORMER NEW YORK TIMES CEO AS NEXT LEADER - [AdAge]

• Five Late Night Hosts Unite to Launch Podcast Benefiting Strike-Impacted Staff - Lacey Rose [THR]

Sports

• Amazon in Talks With Disney About ESPN Streaming Partnership - Sahil Patel [The Information]

• Illegal Streaming Costs Sports Billions, Leagues Want Swift Government Action - Andrew Cohen [Front Office Sports]

• ESPN Televising Regular Season College Football Games At Movie Theaters - Ty Rousch [Forbes]

• Sports Wagering Continues To See Sharp TV Ad Growth - Wayne Friedman [MediaPost]

• NBA is prepared to broadcast where Diamond Sports Group can’t. Will things come to that? - Mike Vorkunov [The Athletic]

• CBS Faces New Super Bowl Ad Plays Thanks to Nickelodeon Simulcast - Brian Steinberg [Variety]

• Sources: ACC votes to invite Stanford, Cal, SMU - Pete Thamel [ESPN]