Vice Media confirmed that it has fired three employees for violating workplace policies – most notably, sexual and verbal harassment. The terminations were first reported by CNN. Vice hasn’t named the three employees. The past few weeks haven’t been kind to Vice. Its latest actions came weeks after a damning Daily Beast report, in which […]
The recent launch of Shareablee Sports will look to expand and deepen the company’s roots of leveraging fan engagement, looking to “provide professional sports teams from all leagues worldwide with data and insight into fan engagement with their own social media properties, as well as those of competitors, including actions and activities related to paid […]
The College Football Playoff committee locked in its matchups and bowl game assignments for the college football postseason, selecting two teams from the same conference for the first time with Georgia and Alabama getting slots, along with Clemson and Oklahoma. Semifinal action will open with Oklahoma/Georgia on Jan. 1 at 2p at the Rose Bowl, […]
Jim Nabors, beloved by television audiences for his portrayal of the title character in the series Gomer Pyle, died yesterday in Hawaii. He was 87. Known for absurd over-annunciation of words like “gollllly!” and “shazam” in his character’s singular downhome, lovably irritating manner, Nabors first debuted the Pyle character in 1962 on The Andy Griffith […]
Vine may be gone, but CEO and cofounder Dom Hofmann says he’s working on something new. Hoffman wrote of a Vine “follow-up” in a series of tweets. He says he’ll personally fund the development of the app. Not too many other details are known just yet. Twitter purchased Vine, an app that shared six-second videos, […]
CBS is thinking about creating a VOD offering based on Entertainment Tonight. The revelation came from CBS CEO Les Moonves, who spoke at Variety’s Innovate Summit. The product would be a 24-hour entertainment news service, Moonves said. CBS now has a growing arsenal of VOD services, including CBS All Access, the CBSN news network, Showtime’s […]
The spotlight will be on Rebecca Lowe, Liam McHugh, Carolyn Manno, Ahmed Fareed, and Fred Roggin as hosts for NBC Olympics coverage of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games from PyeongChang. The group has been locked in to join Mike Tirico, who was named NBC’s primetime Olympics host earlier this year. Lowe will serve as the […]
The Southeastern Conference and SiriusXM locked in a deal to launch SiriusXM SEC Radio, a new and exclusive 24/7 audio channel dedicated to SEC sports that will debut early next year, setting up shop on channel 374. The new channel’s programming lineup will include exclusive new shows as well as simulcasts of SEC Network programming, […]
After a former colleague accused Today’s Matt Lauer of inappropriate behavior that started at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, allegations that quickly led to his firing, more women emerged with allegations. Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie read a statement from Lauer on Wednesday, in which he apologized for sexual misconduct: “There are no words to […]