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18/03/2024
Next Season of Doctor Who' on Disney Plus May 10
The next season of Doctor Who, with Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor, premieres on Disney Plus and around the world May 10. It is the first season to launch on Di...
16/03/2024
Josh Brolin Drama Outer Range' Returns To Prime Video May 16
Western drama Outer Range is back with season two on Prime Video May 16. Josh Brolin stars and executive produces. He also directs the season's penultimate ...
16/03/2024
Kristen Wiig Lined Up to Host SNL' for Fifth Time
Kristen Wiig hosts Saturday Night Live for the fifth time on April 6. Wiig stars in and executive produces Palm Royale, which premieres March 20 on Apple TV Plu...
16/03/2024
Magnite, Mediaocean Join To Make Buying CTV Campaigns Easier
Media buyers using Mediaocean's Prisma platform will be able to plan, execute and reconcile ad campaigns on connected TV directly from programmers who work ...
16/03/2024
Bitmovin, Yospace Combine To Insert Ads Into Live Streams
Streaming infrastructure company Bitmovin is teaming up with ad-insertion vendor Yospace to enable broadcasters to put commercials in live-streaming programming...
16/03/2024
Bumble Engages Peacock's The Traitors' To Promote Dating Deception Detector'
Bumble, the dating service, has tapped into Peacock's murder-mystery competi...
16/03/2024
Gerald Levin, Former Time Warner CEO, Has Died
Gerald Levin, former CEO of Time Warner, died March 13. He was 84 and had battled Parkinson's disease....
16/03/2024
Six Nations Rugby Championship Final Round March 16
The 2024 Guinness Six Nations Rugby Championship concludes March 16, with Ireland poised to win the championship. The annual tournament features England, France...
16/03/2024
Allen Media Group Renews Carriage Deal With Charter
Byron Allen's Allen Media Group said it reached a multiyear renewal of its carriage agreement with Charter Communications....
16/03/2024
NBCUniversal Working With Google, LiveRamp To Use First Party-Data for Personalized CTV Ads
NBCUniversal said it is working with Google and LiveRamp to deliver more effecti...
16/03/2024
Annette Bening Stars in Peacock Mystery Series Apples Never Fall'
Apples Never Fall, an edgy limited series about a woman who goes missing under curious circumstances, debuted on Peacock March 14. Liane Moriarty wrote the nove...
14/03/2024
Margaret Orr, WDSU New Orleans Chief Meteorologist, Sets Retirement
Margaret Orr, chief meteorologist at WDSU New Orleans, has announced her retirement. She has spent 45 years at WDSU and will sign off March 29....
14/03/2024
Apple TV Plus Orders Owen Wilson Golf Comedy
Apple TV Plus has ordered a comedy that has Owen Wilson leading the cast and executive producing. Wilson plays Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill golfer who loses h...
14/03/2024
BIA Lowers Forecast for 2024 Local Ad Revenue To $172 Billion
Powered by an election year, local advertising revenues are expected to increase 9.3% year over year to $172 billion in 2024, according to an updated forecast f...
14/03/2024
Two Netflix Shows Open Atop TVision Power Score Rankings
Two new Netflix shows were the top programs in TVisions Power Score rankings of series on connected TV for the week of March 4....
14/03/2024
Clinch Rolling Out Creative Attribution Reporting for CTV Ads
Dynamic ad-serving company Clinch said it is rolling out advanced creative attribution reporting for connected TV ad campaigns....
14/03/2024
Gracenote Offers Availability Data To Help Find Streaming Content
Nielsen's Gracenote is offering its data on content availability to distributors to help their customers find streaming programming....
14/03/2024
BBC News FAST Channel Launched By AMC Networks, BBC Studios
AMC Networks and BBC Studios said the launched a BBC News 24-hour free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel....
14/03/2024
Adsmovil Inks Deal To Sell Content for Nuestra Vision
Minority-owned digital media company Adsmovil said it made an investment in Nuestra Vision, a Spanish-language TV network offering family-friendly programming, ...
14/03/2024
Broadcasters Foundation Gives Out Leadership Awards, Lowry Mays Award at NAB Show
The Broadcasters Foundation of America gives out its 2024 Leadership Awards and ...
14/03/2024
Fired? Resigned? Media Matchmaker Michael Kassan Out At UTA's MediaLink
Michael Kassan is out as CEO of MediaLink, the consultancy he founded that is now owned by UTA, amid a flurry of charges and counterclaims, including whether Ka...
13/03/2024
Dabl Offers Sister, Sister' Marathon to Celebrate Comedy's 30th Anniversary
Dabl Network commemorates 30 years of sitcom Sister, Sister with a 24-hour marat...
13/03/2024
The CW, Roku, Australian Streamer Stan Partner on Leighton Meester Series
The CW, Roku Originals and Australian streaming service Stan have teamed up on the scripted show Good Cop/Bad Cop, with Leighton Meester, Luke Cook and Clancy B...
13/03/2024
Earlier Oscar' Telecast Draws 4-Year High With 19.5 Million Viewers
The 96th Oscars on ABC drew 19.5 million viewers, up 37% from last year and the highest in four years....
13/03/2024
Driver Studios Teams With Qonsent for Privacy-Based Interactive CTV Ads
Media and technology company Driver Studios said it made a deal with Qonsent to create privacy-focused interactive advertising products for connected TV....
13/03/2024
Blackwells Says Bob Iger Backer ValueAct Has Been Quietly Paid To Manage Disney Pension Funds
Blackwells Capital, which is seeking seats on the board of the Walt Disney Co., ...
13/03/2024
Daytime Emmys To Air June 7 on CBS
The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will air live Friday, June 7 on CBS and will stream on Paramount Plus, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (N...
13/03/2024
WXIX Replaces WKRC as Home for Cincinnati Bengals
Gray Television's WXIX signed a multiyear agreement with the Cincinnati Bengals that makes the station the new home of the team's preseason games and ot...
13/03/2024
NBC Chicago Stations Plan Primary Election Coverage on FAST Channel
NBC's television stations in Chicago WMAQ and WSNS will be streaming three hours of live primary election night coverage on NBC Chicago News 24/7 from 7 p.m...
13/03/2024
Fox's New York Stations Get N.Y. Liberty Games
WNYW has been named official TV partner of the New York Liberty of the WNBA for its 2024 season. WNYW, known as Fox 5, and sister station WWOR, known as My9, wi...
12/03/2024
Disney Sells Out Commercial Inventory During Oscars Broadcast
Disney Advertising said it sold all of the advertising inventory for Sunday's Oscars telecast. Prices for 30-second spots ranged between $1.7 million to $2...
12/03/2024
Chris Mortensen, ESPN's NFL Insider, Has Died
Chris Mortensen, who covered football for ESPN, died March 3 in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 72. ESPN did not cite a cause of death, but Mortensen had battled th...
12/03/2024
Six Nations Rugby Action Continues on Peacock, CNBC
The Guinness Six Nations Rugby Championship continues March 9 and 10. NBC Sports covers the event, which features the national teams of England, France, Ireland...
12/03/2024
Linear TV Ad Spending Fell 7% in Q4, Guideline Says
Advertising spending on linear television fell 7% in the fourth quarter from the prior year, according to ad intelligence company Guideline....
12/03/2024
Charter Rolls Out Disney's ESPN Plus to Spectrum TV Select Plus Customers
Charter Communications said subscribers of its Spectrum TV Select Plus video service are now getting the ESPN Plus streaming service at no additional cost....
12/03/2024
Cat Deeley on How the American Dream Fuels So You Think You Can Dance: It's Right at the Show's Core'
Season 18 of So You Think You Can Dance started on Fox this week. Cat Deeley hos...
12/03/2024
Matt Glassman Named NBC News VP of Regional Editorial
Matt Glassman, WRC Washington news director, is joining NBC News as VP of regional editorial. It's a new role and its focus is on driving reporting and expa...
12/03/2024
Oprah Special on Weight-Loss Drugs To Air on ABC March 18
Oprah Winfrey investigates prescription weight-loss medications when An Oprah Special: Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution airs at 8 p.m. on ABC Monday,...
12/03/2024
Congressional Candidates Are Big Buyers of Connected TV Ads
Candidates in local races, particularly people running for congressional seats, have been big buyers of political commercials streaming on connected TV, accordi...
12/03/2024
Non-Sports Content Spending Falls From 2022 Peak, Analyst Says
After falling from its peak in 2022, spending on television content will rise in 2024, but it won't reach the levels hit two years ago, according to analyst...
03/03/2024
Elsbeth,' A Police Procedural With a Twinkle In Its Eye,' Premieres on CBS
Elsbeth, featuring a quirky character from The Good Wife and The Good Fight, deb...
03/03/2024
Garth Brooks's New Bar Is the Star of Prime Video Docuseries
Friends in Low Places, a docuseries about Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood building a honky-tonk in Nashville, debuts on Prime Video Thursday, March 7. The bar,...
03/03/2024
Brother-and-Sister Anchor Team Reunites as WNDU's Terry McFadden Retires
Terry McFadden, who anchors early evening and late news at WNDU South Bend, Indiana, retires March 1. He joined the station, known as 16 News Now, in 1982....
03/03/2024
Affiliates Seek To Change How They Pay Networks for Programming
Broadcast stations are looking to keep more of their distribution revenue by changing the way they pay networks for programming especially sports to a varia...
03/03/2024
Tegna Extends Local Ratings Deal With Comscore To All Markets
Comscore said that it reached a multi-year agreement to provide local cross-platform measurement for Tegna in all of the 51 markets where Tegna has television s...
03/03/2024
Fubo Adds 173,000 Subs, Cuts Loss in Q4
Fubo, the sports streaming service, said it cut its losses in the fourth quarter as it added subscribers and increased revenue....
03/03/2024
Paramount Names Lee Sears President of International Ad Sales
Paramount Global said it named Lee Sears president of international market advertising sales, a new post at the company....
03/03/2024
Peacock Streams International SVNS' Rugby Tournament March 1-3
Peacock streams the HSBC World Rugby SVNS series March 1-3, as the top nations in the seven-per-side rugby world, including the U.S., compete. The event happens...
03/03/2024
Rick and Michonne Generate Scary Good Numbers for AMC's Latest Walking Dead' Series
The premiere of the latest installment in The Walking Dead Universe The Walkin...
01/03/2024
Paramount Global Cuts Streaming Losses, Posts Higher 4Q Profit
Paramount Global reported higher fourth-quarter earnings as it cut costs and reduced losses at its direct-to-consumer business....