Samantha Bee apologized for calling White House staffer and First Daughter Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t” during a segment about her father’s immigration policy. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had labeled the language “vile and vicious” and called on Time Warner and TBS to “demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of […]
TONE Networks, a subscription online resource and community for women, is growing its pool of experts and amping up its short-form video offerings, which currently total close to 500. TONE CEO Gemma Toner, former SVP, business insights and strategy at Cablevision Systems, talks with Cyn Short Form about why in an over-scheduled universe, short form […]
Snapchat is turning up. The platform has launched a sound-activated lens that picks up sounds and responds accordingly. In practical terms, that puppy face lens, for example, may start moving its eyes or mouth depending on what sound it picks up. Enlarging ears and glowing eyes let users know the sound is on.
ESPN and the Atlantic 10 Conference locked in a multi-year media rights deal that will see more than 500 conference events each year carried on ESPN+ and makes ESPN+ the exclusive streaming home for a number of the Atlantic 10 Conference’s sports and includes exclusive games from multiple A-10 Championships including men’s and women’s basketball, […]
Game 2 of the 2018 Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday night ranked as the most-watched Stanley Cup Final game on NBCSN in three years as well as the most-watched primetime program on NBCSN in three years. The Game 2 TAD of 3.788 million viewers, according to Nielsen Fast National data and streaming data by Adobe […]
ABC’s cancellation of Roseanne was swift and decisive after series creator/star Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. But might the network be considering bringing the cast, minus Barr, back for a different show? The cast members had their options picked up for 13 episodes, and will still have to […]
Comedy Central ordered weekly interstitial series Stupid Questions with Chris Distefano, designed to intertwine the net’s Friday night stand-up premieres with its archive of classics. Distefano (Benders) and a new guest each week will do their best to answer truly stupid questions.
CBS Sports and the Missouri Valley Conference inked a multi-year extension to carry Missouri Valley Conference college men’s basketball games on CBS and CBS Sports Network through 2023-24, courtesy of a sub-license agreement with ESPN. As part of the agreement, CBS will again broadcast the State Farm MVC Men’s Basketball Championship game, which it has […]
Around the dial, the new deal between the Professional Bowlers Association and FOX Sports has its 2019 Go Bowling! PBA Tour television schedule, featuring 30 telecasts and including a new PBA Playoffs series including five telecasts on FOX and 26 on FS1 starting Jan. 6 with the Hall of Fame Classic in Arlington. Overall 60 […]