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01/19/16: Learfield Sports drafts a ringer; Tennis industry scrambles; NFL heavyweights deliver big weekend numbers

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CYNOPSISSPORTS 01.19.16 Good morning. It’s Tuesday January 19, 2016, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.  On the day of the College Football Playoff Championship game, Learfield Sports, which happened to have both Clemson and Alabama as clients, also added a key, new face to its umbrella, announcing that Keisha Taylor would be […]

01/15/16: GoPro forced to replace entertainment chief; Latino oriented comedy studio Mas Mejor launches; ESPN launches eSports vertical

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.15.16 Good morning. It’s Friday January 15, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. VIRTUAL REALITY GoPro announced that it expects fourth quarter revenue to clock in at about $435 million – well short of the $500-550 it had originally expected. (Calendar-year revenue will likely amount to about $1.6 billion.) […]

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01/14/16: Friends cast reuniting for NBC special; Shaw Comm. sheds networks; Showtime picks up Jim Carrey stand-up series

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CYNOPSIS 01.14.16 Good morning. It’s Thursday January 14, 2016, and this is your first early morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres: Animal Planet: Alaska Proof at 9p Comedy: Workaholics at 10p, Idiotsitter at 10:30p MTV: Greatest Party Story Ever and Other Epic Tales at 10:30p USA: Colony at 10p A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS Investigation Discovery […]

01/14/16: Goldman Sachs predicts $80 billion VR market by 2025; PewDiePie and Maker Studios launch digital network; Turner Broadcasting to launch Ad Lab

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.14.16 Good morning. It’s Thursday January 14, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TOP NEWS   So just how big will the virtual and augmented reality market get? In a series of charts, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research lays out its thoughts on the subject. Here’s the upshot: Goldman thinks […]

01/14/16: ESPN makes trades for baseball season; Spieth gets a refresher; A reunion for Bleacher Report

ESPN makes trades for baseball season

CYNOPSISSPORTS 01.14.16 Good morning. It’s Thursday January 14, 2016, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.  ESPN is giving an overhaul to its Sunday Night Baseball crew, announcing that the upcoming MLB season will see Dan Shulman joined by newly-named analysts Jessica Mendoza and Aaron Boon in the broadcast booth, along with returning […]

01/13/16: Ted Danson goes back to where it all began; Ford boards The X-Files; Lip Sync Battle launch a record-breaker

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01/13/16: Twitter integrates Periscope into platform; Amazon touts increased streaming viewership; VLC Video Player debuts on Apple TV

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 01.13.16 Good morning. It’s Wednesday January 13, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TOP NEWS   Up Periscope! The video live-streaming app is being integrated into the platform of its parent company, Twitter. Starting yesterday, users of the Twitter iOS app could start viewing live auto-playing video streams directly […]

01/13/16: ESPN’s Megacast numbers; CBS books its Super Bowl tech; Marriott checks into NBA’s Global Games

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CYNOPSISSPORTS 01.13.16 Good morning. It’s Wednesday January 13, 2016, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.  Alabama’s championship win saw ESPN’s Megacast coverage on Monday deliver an average of 26,182,000 viewers to its various networks, according to Nielsen. That is off-pace from last year’s record-shattering debut CFP Championship game, which topped 34 million, […]

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