Roku may be best known for its own hardware, but according to Variety, the company plans to expand its horizons. The trade pub, which spoke to three sources with knowledge of the plans, reports that Roku intends to integrate video playback directly into its mobile app for iOS and Android devices. (At the moment, the […]
Nov. 1 will see NBCUniversal celebrate 100 days until the start of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics with a company-wide blitz that will leverage broadcast, cable, affiliate, regional, digital, social, radio, and theme park assets. Mike Tirico, who will serve as NBC Olympics’ primetime host this winter, will be in South Korea to join a slate […]
Game one of the World Series saw FOX Sports reel in 15.5 million viewers across its platforms for the Dodgers victory, off pace from last year’s series featuring the Cubs, but ranking as the second most-watched World Series Game 1 since 2010. Breaking it down, FOX’s broadcast generated 14.97 million viewers, with 348,000 on FOX […]
With $4.2 million at stake, Major League Gaming revealed plans for the Call of Duty World League in 2018, featuring Call of Duty: WWII and launch with the CWL Dallas Global Open on Dec. 8. The season will offer six LAN Global Open events overall (including events in New Orleans and Atlanta), as well as […]
With BlizzCon around the corner, Overwatch League teams are moving quickly with brand announcements. The latest is the Boston franchise, owned by Robert and Jonathan Kraft, which will be known as the Boston Uprising. The team name was selected to “represent the resilience of the region’s revolutionary forefathers, whose indomitable legacy laid the foundation for […]
The onscreen adventures of The Kardashians will continue. E! signed a new pact with the famous family, locking them up beyond their previous deal through 2020. The Kardashians last renewed their contract with E! in 2015.
From the department of mixed blessings: Global online piracy of Sunday’s The Walking Dead premiere was down 42% from last season’s premiere. That’s according to piracy-tracking firm Tecxipio, which compared the one-day periods following the two premieres’ initial airings on AMC. While reduced piracy may sound like a good thing, it may also indicate that […]
This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia and his producing partner Russ Cundiff sold three projects to FOX via their DiVide Pictures. Drama Cordelia is a Latino take on King Lear from Robert Munic, co-creator of Ice; The End is comedy from Michael Jacobs, co-creator of Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World; and Committed is […]
Mike Hopkins is leaving Hulu. Hopkins, who’s been Hulu’s CEO since 2013, is headed to Sony Pictures Television, where he’ll serve as Chairman. The Chairman role was previously held by Steve Mosko, who left Sony last year. Randy Freer, a Hulu board-member who’s served as President and COO of Fox Networks Group since 2013, will […]
New York Life continues to embrace the conference agenda. The brand inked a renewal with the Atlantic Coast Conference to serve as an ACC Official Corporate Champion and title sponsor of the New York Life ACC Tournament. New York Life will continue to receive benefits that include television and marketing tie-ins with ACC Football and […]
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