Stepping in for MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing, who’s decamping for NBC News, will be Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart, anchoring at 10a live from Miami. Diaz-Balart will continue his anchor and hosting duties on Telemundo; both nets fall under the NBCUniversal umbrella.
Coke’s first ad made up solely of consumer submissions is slated to debut during the season finale of Fox’s American Idol tonight. Teens had been asked to send video showing what it feels like to take a sip of Coke; results are here.
AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire will be available via a two-week full-episode sneak preview on Tumblr, through VOD and TV Everywhere services on AMC.com. It’s Tumblr’s first-ever television series premiere, and the first time AMC has partnered with a social media platform to premiere a new show. The preview runs Monday, May 19-Saturday, May 31; […]
Among the 46 winners at Monday’s Peabody Awards was Tom Brokaw, to accept a career achievement award. “If you live long enough these kind of awards come to you and/or you get cancer,” said the former NBC News anchor. “Turns out, I ended up getting both…. Life is going to be OK because I’m in […]
Singer/songwriter Josh Groban will host Rising Star, where Kesha and Ludacris have joined Brad Paisley on the panel of experts. The ABC talent show launches Sunday, June 22 at 9p.
Moonves also shot down the rumor that Joel McHale is replacing Craig Ferguson on The Late Late Show a rumor started when Moonves’s wife, Julie Chen, tweeted a pic of the three of them. “It’s Upfront week, we went to some parties,” said the exec. “Then we took a picture… there are no conversations underway. […]
AT+T is expected to announce its acquisition of DirecTV today. Bloomberg reports the potential $50 billion deal would allow both companies to compete with the likes of Comcast and Time Warner Cable; the two companies recently agreed to a similar merger.
Neil Patrick Harris was approached by CBS CEO Les Moonves about doing a late night show, the How I Met Your Mother star told Howard Stern on Wednesday. Describing it as a very preliminary conversation, before David Letterman announced his retirement from Late Show, Harris said he wasn’t interested but would like to host a […]
Bounce TV topped Nielsen’s Time Spent Viewing chart for the April ratings period, for A18-49. Viewers spent more time (7 hr. 53 min.) watching Bounce than any other broadcast or ad-supported cable net. Five minutes behind Bounce was Investigation Discovery, followed by NBC (7 hrs. 6 min.), ABC (6 hrs. 53 min.) and CBS (6 […]