With the National Hockey League Players’ Association and the NHL locking in hockey’s Declaration of Principles, designed to “advance policies, programs and initiatives, while inspiring fans, players and communities to create the best possible experience for the entire hockey community,” the league has now launched a new ad campaign promoting the initiative, tapping the services […]
The new NFL season opened with a slightly-muffled bang, as the Chiefs upset over the Patriots delivered NBC with a hardy 22.2 million viewers in Total Audience Delivery numbers and earned a 14.6 overnight rating, according to Nielsen, but both numbers were off-pace from last year’s opening game, which drew 25.4 million viewers with a […]
Veep will wrap after its upcoming season 7, a decision HBO president of programming Casey Bloys called “bittersweet.” “We love the show and everyone involved but respect the producers’ choice to bring Selina Meyer’s journey to its conclusion after an extraordinary run of critical and award-winning acclaim,” said Bloys. The comedy and its star, Julia […]
Hallmark Channel is expanding its slate with reality series Meet the Peetes, chronicling the lives of Holly Robinson Peete (21 Jump Street) and her husband, former NFL star Rodney Peete. Tremendous! Entertainment is producing. (The couple knows what they’re getting into – they starred on OWN docu-series For Peete’s Sake.) “We’re excited to move into […]
A raft of media-buying stalwarts – including Dentsu Aegis Network, GroupM, Horizon Media, MAGNA, Omnicom and Publicis – have signed on for a new auditing service from OpenSlate to ensure their clients’ ads on YouTube appear alongside brand-safe content. It’s the first independent, third-party confirmation of YouTube contextual brand safety. The new service leverages OpenSlate’s […]
Every James Bond movie has inexorable twists and turns. So does the quest to land film distribution rights to the mega-franchise. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon and Apple have entered the race to pick up the distribution rights, which expired for Sony after 2015’s Spectre. THR quotes sources as saying newly arrived executives Zack […]
The US Open propelled ESPN’s coverage to gains this year, with audiences up 8% year-over-year and streaming viewers rising 45%. The total average audience through Tuesday, Sept. 5 hit an average of 874,000 viewers, compared to 809,000 for the first nine days of last year’s event. The television rating across ESPN and ESPN2 is a […]
FOX Sports lined up programming plans for Big Ten basketball for the first time, starting Dec. 2 with Ohio State/Wisconsin at 5p on the broadcast network, immediately preceding FOX’s live coverage of the Big Ten Football Championship Game at 7p. Overall, FS1 televises 13 Monday or Friday games and more than 30 overall, while FOX […]
Hi-Rez Studios continues to forge partnerships designed to propel Paladins as an esports knight. Last week saw the publisher announce an alliance with WESA to launch the a new Paladins Premier League; now the publisher is taking the league to Facebook Live, which will carry content exclusively on the platform. The Paladins Premier League will […]
Riot Games is rebooting the format for the group draw for the League of Legends World Championship. This year two draws will be conducted with a livestreamed show set to carry the selections on Tuesday at 8a. The Worlds Draw Show is the process by which teams are placed into groups for the Play-In Stage […]
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