Job of the Week DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRSPAC-12 CONFERENCESF Extensive exp in strategic communications, expertise in corporate communications, issues management, brand communications, crisis management, thought leadership, executive communications and all aspects of communications writings. Full posting/apply HERECynopsisJOBS Good morning. It’s Sunday April 8, 2018 and this is your first early morning […]
An LA Superior Court judge ruled Judge Judy Sheindlin’s annual salary of $45 million is not unreasonable. This in response to a lawsuit brought by Richard Lawrence, a talent agent who receives a commission on Judge Judy profits. Lawrence accused Big Ticket Television and CBS of overpaying Sheindlin, and thereby reducing his piece of the […]
History is joining with the King Center to observe the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King for short form content Mountaintop Moments, based on King’s landmark “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, and features prominent Americans from diverse backgrounds sharing their hope for the future and how they […]
The upcoming Major League Rugby locked in a broadcast agreement with AT&T Sports Networks for MLR’s inaugural season, which launches this month, completing the league’s distribution package. Deal points will see AT&T Sports Networks carry a 17-game package with rights to six MLR teams including Austin, Houston and NOLA on AT&T SportsNet -Southwest region. ROOT […]
In other deal news, the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Charlotte Sports Foundation inked a 10-year agreement that will keep the Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game in Charlotte through the 2030 season, played at Bank of America Stadium. Charlotte is also scheduled to host the 2018, 2019 and 2020 championship games.
The third season of NBC’s Shades of Blue will be its last. “I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a women, a detective, but, first and foremost, a mother,” said series star and producer Jennifer Lopez. “We crafted a poetic three-season arc […]
Ryan Murphy has scrapped his plans to adapt the book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down A President, about the Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, for American Crime Story. Murphy told the Hollywood Reporter he ran into Lewinsky at a party and told her, “Nobody should tell your story but […]
ESPN and the Ivy League committed to a 10-year deal that makes ESPN the exclusive national media rights holder for the conference, carrying more than 1,100 events annually from more than 30 sports on ESPN media platforms. Starting with the 2018-19 season, the majority of events will be on ESPN+ although the Ivy League will […]
After news broke that the Masters had banned the phrase “dilly, dilly” at this year’s tournament, Bud Light issued a response, where “King John Barley IV” posted that 1000 shirts with the phrase will be delivered to Georgia ahead of the tournament.
History was made on Wednesday when – after an opening that featured NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, NBA 2K League Managing Director Brendan Donohue and Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick addressing the press – Artreyo “Dimez” Boyd became the first-ever player drafted into the league. Overall 102 players were drafted across six rounds to 17 teams, […]