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08/12/2022
vMVPD Frndly TV Grows 40% To Top 700,000 Subs
Low-priced, G-rated streaming TV service Frndly TV said it surpassed 700,000 subscribers, an increase of 40% from the last time it released a subscriber number ...
08/12/2022
Truthset Launches Collective To Verify Quality of Demo Data
Truthset, a data validation company, is launching Truthset Data Collective with 20 members and a suite of products designed to help the media evaluate the quali...
08/12/2022
The Simpsons, Andrea Bocelli and Disney Plus Team Up on Short Film
Disney Plus is offering fans of The Simpsons a Christmas gift, as the short film The Simpsons meet the Bocellis in Feliz Navidad' launches December 15. In ...
08/12/2022
Abbott Elementary, Greys Anatomy, The Mandalorian To Be Featured at PaleyFest
The Paley Center for Media holds its PaleyFest celebration of TV at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood March 31-April 4, celebrating Abbott Elementary, Grey's A...
08/12/2022
WXTV New York Lights Up Bronx Christmas Tree December 8
WXTV New York, the Univision station in DMA No. 1, hosts the Bronx Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in that New York borough December 8. Bronx Borough President...
07/12/2022
End of the Road for FBoy Island
HBO Max has canceled FBoy Island, which ran for two seasons. Hosted by Nikki Glaser, the dating competition series followed three women who move to a tropical i...
07/12/2022
AXS TV Harmonizes With Spectrum on Grants for Music Education
Music and entertainment network AXS TV is jamming with Charter Communications' Spectrum to provide $50,000 in grants to support music education in communiti...
07/12/2022
Brian Taff To Anchor 6 P.M. Newscast on WPVI-TV
ABC's station in Philadelphia, WPVI-TV, named Brian Taff as the new anchor of its 6 p.m. newscast, succeeding Jim Gardner who is retiring after 46 years at ...
07/12/2022
Lionsgate Promotes Sandra Stern to Vice Chairman of TV Group
Lionsgate said that Sandra Stern has been promoted to vice chairman of the company's television group....
07/12/2022
Paramount's Bob Bakish Says Ad Market Weaker Than Expected
Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish provided more testimony that the advertising market is weaker heading into the end of the year....
07/12/2022
Kenan Thompson Hosts Peoples Choice Awards on NBC, E!
Kenan Thompson hosts the People's Choice Awards on NBC and E! Tuesday, December 6. The event happens at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. E! starts things off ...
07/12/2022
NBCU Claims Big Ad Impact Over Thanksgiving Weekend
NBCUniversal says its advertisers had hundreds of millions of reasons to be thankful over the Thanksgiving weekend -- one of the business shopping periods of th...
07/12/2022
Collin Gaston Promoted to Senior VP by Gray Television
Gray Television said it promoted Collin Gaston to senior VP overseeing the company's TV station in the South, Texas and Colorado....
07/12/2022
Vevo Says Most-Viewed Artist Of 2022 Is Karol G
Music-video service Vevo said that Karol G was the most-viewed artist globally in 2022 with 2.76 billion views....
05/12/2022
Surface Gets Second Season on Apple TV Plus
Apple TV Plus has renewed psychological thriller Surface. Veronica West created the show and Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars and executive produces....
05/12/2022
NBC Orders More Lopez vs Lopez
NBC has picked up an additional nine episodes of rookie comedy Lopez vs Lopez, bringing the season total to 22. George Lopez and his daughter Mayan Lopez are in...
05/12/2022
Fox-DirecTV Deadline Passes Without Blackout Beginning
The distribution agreement between Fox and DirecTV expired at midnight Friday Pacific Time, but Fox's stations and cable networks remained available to the ...
05/12/2022
Magna Sees National TV Network Ad Revenue Down 6.3% in 2023
Media buyer Mediabrands' Magna unit issued a more bearish forecast for advertising revenue in 2023, predicting spending on national TV networks will drop by...
05/12/2022
New CEO To Run Diamond Sports As Sinclair Gets Sent To the Bench
Struggling regional sports network operator Diamond Sports Group is set to name a CEO Monday, making it more independent from Sinclair Broadcast Group, which ha...
05/12/2022
GroupM Forecasts U.S. TV Ad Spending Edging up in 2023
Media buyer GroupM expects ad spending on television and professional video will edge up 0.1% to $67.7 billion as part of a less optimistic forecast released Mo...
05/12/2022
GroupM Sees Pay TV Reaching Less than 50% of U.S. Homes By 2025
Giant media buyer GroupM forecasts that traditional pay TV will reach less than 50% of U.S. homes by 2025....
03/12/2022
Fuse Media Launches Latino Vibes FAST Channel on Roku Channel
Fuse Media said that it launched Latino Vibes, a new free ad-supported streaming TV channel on The Roku Channel....
03/12/2022
Eric Kim Named Executive VP of Current Programs at CBS
Eric Kim has been named executive VP of current programs at CBS. He will oversee current primetime and daytime programming on the network and for the studio. He...
03/12/2022
David Decker Named President of Warner Bros. Discovery Content Sales
David Decker was named president, content sales for Warner Bros. Discovery, effective January 2, 2023....
03/12/2022
Gray Names Curtis Miles GM of Kansas City Stations
Gray Television said it hired Curtis Miles to be general manager of its stations in Kansas City, KCTV and KSMO, effective January 3....
03/12/2022
Syndication Ratings: Jeopardy Leads Many Syndies in Hitting Season Highs
Jeopardy remained in the syndication and game lead for the 10th straight week in the session ended November 20, which included the penultimate week of the CBS M...
03/12/2022
The Mandalorian Season Three on Disney Plus March 1
Season three of The Mandalorian is on Disney Plus March 1. The Mandalorian and Grogu return March 1 only on Disney Plus, the network said on Twitter....
03/12/2022
AMC Networks Restructuring To Result in $350-$475 Million Charge
AMC Networks said that the restructuring plan that includes laying off 20% of its staff will result in pre-tax charges of between $350 million and $475 million....
03/12/2022
Dish Says Cox Wants To Include Standard General, Tegna Stations in Blackout Talks
Dish Network, responding to Cox Media Group demands that it retract false statem...
03/12/2022
Katherine Heigl's Firefly Lane' Starts Season Two on Netflix
Season two of drama Firefly Lane, with Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke in the cast, premieres on Netflix December 2. Nine episodes come out December 2, and sev...
03/12/2022
Key Exec Peter Bradbury Is Leaving as Nielsen Sets Reorganization
Nielsen chief commercial officer Peter Bradbury is exiting at the end of the year as part of a larger reorganization at the measurement company....
02/12/2022
Da Vinci Channel Enters U.S. Market Via Sling Free and TCL
Da Vinci, a pay-TV channel available in 70 million homes worldwide, is entering the U.S. market with Sling Free, the free, ad supported service offered by Dish ...
02/12/2022
Willow' Series, Based on Ron Howard-George Lucas Film, Debuts on Disney Plus
Willow, a series based on the adventure film of the same name from 1988, debuts on Disney Plus November 30 (opens in new tab). Ron Howard directed the film, and...
02/12/2022
Hearst TV Names Michael Saffell Regional Engineering Director
Hearst Television said it promoted Michael Saffell to regional director of engineering....
02/12/2022
Antiques Roadshow' Back on Location for Season 27
Season 27 of Antiques Roadshow is on PBS January 2. The new season was filmed on location in Nashville, Boise, Sante Fe and Woodside, California, among other lo...
02/12/2022
Chris Jericho, Tara Lapinski, Jordin Sparks on Celebrity Name That Tune
Celebrity Name That Tune begins on Fox January 11. Chris Jericho, Tara Lipinski and Jordin Sparks are some of the celebs doing battle on the show....
02/12/2022
U.S. Team Draws Record World Cup Viewing On Fox
The U.S. men's national team's victory over Iran in the World Cup drew more than 12 million viewers on Tuesday, propelling the team to the global soccer...
02/12/2022
Ex-Turner Exec Michael Strober Named Chief Revenue Officer At Expanding Nexstar
Nexstar Media Group said it appointed former Turner executive Michael Strober as executive VP and chief revenue officer, a new post at the company....
02/12/2022
Roku Channel Gets Next-Day Rights To Stream The Jennifer Hudson Show'
Despite cutbacks in other areas, Roku is expanding its programming offerings, adding The Jennifer Hudson Show to The Roku Channel....
29/11/2022
Michigan Win Over Ohio State Draws 17 Million Viewers for Fox
Michigan's victory Saturday (November 25) over Ohio State in The Game drew 17 million viewers on Fox, making it the most-watched regular-season college fo...
29/11/2022
Sinclair Sees High Engagement With Bally Sports Plus DTC App
Sinclair Broadcast Group declared it was pleased with the reception the Bally Sports Plus direct-to-consumer app is performing and said it was not in the proces...
29/11/2022
Ex-Showtime Exec David Preisman Joins Play.Works as Senior VP
Former Showtime executive David Preisman has been named senior VP, distribution and product for Play.Works, which develops and distributes games and TV channels...
29/11/2022
Cox Stations Blacked Out to Dish Subs in Retransmission Dispute
Cox Media Group stations in nine markets have been blacked out to Dish TV subscribers because of a retransmission fee dispute, effective Monday....
29/11/2022
Turner Sports Head Lenny Daniels Leaves Warner Bros. Discovery
Lenny Daniels, who was president of Turner Sports before the company became part of Warner Bros. Discovery, is leaving the company, effective immediately....
29/11/2022
Streaming TV Service Vidgo Updates Graphics, User Interface
Streaming TV service Vidgo said it is launching a new look and an improved user experience across all platforms....
29/11/2022
Integral Ad Science Names Khurrum Malik as CMO
Integral Ad Science said it named Khurrum Malik as chief marketing officer, effective immediately....
29/11/2022
Christina Spade Exits As CEO of AMC Networks
AMC Networks on Tuesday announced that CEO Christina Spade had stepped down from her post after just four months on the job....
28/11/2022
Pitch Perfect Spinoff Bumper in Berlin Starts on Peacock
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin, a comedy series with Adam Devine and Sarah Hyland in the cast, premieres on Peacock November 23. Elizabeth Banks is an executiv...
28/11/2022
ABC Gave the AMAs TVs Biggest Promo Push
B+C has partnered with always-on TV ad measurement and attribution company iSpot.tv (opens in new tab) to bring you a weekly chart we call Promo Mojo: exclusive...
24/11/2022
Google's PIxel In The Picture During NBC's Thanksgiving Parade Coverage
During NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Google will be serving up commercials showing how its Pixel 7 phone can clean up holiday pi...
