Discovery Communications’ $14.6 billion deal to acquire Scripps Networks Interactive might not be its last, David Zaslav, president and CEO, Discovery Comm., said in a call after the agreement was announced yesterday. “We’re not out of bullets,” noted Zaslav. “Over the next two years we still have enough room to do some selective purchases that […]
MTV is reviving Total Request Live (aka TRL), the 1998-2008 music show. A “centerpiece” studio is under construction in Times Square, net president Chris McCarthy told the New York Times, with launch slated for October. Host Carson Daly will not be back for the revamp; the series will have rotating hosts. McCarthy also told the […]
Facebook’s assault on Snapchat continues. Facebook Stories – largely a clone of Snapchat’s photo- and video-sharing app of the same name – just became more widely accessible. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that users can now share Stories publicly, allowing anyone to see them. When the feature launched in March, users could only share Stories […]
Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual online world Second Life, has launched its new social VR environment. Called Sansar, the new VR world lets users interact with other users, visit various VR experiences, and create their own locations and games. Linden first started developing Sansar in 2014; it’s now available as part of an […]
2028, here we come. Los Angeles will play host to the 2028 Summer Games, with officials reaching a deal with the IOC that would help “generate hundreds of millions in savings and additional revenues,” with the move, according to the LA Times. That decision makes Paris home to the event in 2024 and mark the […]
NBC Sports locked in its NHL scheduling plans for the new season, lining up 99 regular-season games during the upcoming season, beginning Oct. 4 at 8p on NBCSN with Blues/Penguins. Overall, NBCSN opens the first week of the season with seven games on deck, including the Red Wings’ first-ever regular-season home game at Little Caesars […]
Discovery Communications signed a deal to acquire Scripps Networks Interactive for $14.6 billion. “Scripps is one of the best run media companies in the world with terrific assets, strong brands and popular talent and formats,” said David Zaslav, president and CEO, Discovery. “We believe that by coming together with Scripps, we will create a stronger, […]
Getting Dramatic: It’s not often we hear about the launch of a linear cable network these days, but that’s exactly what Crown Media is doing this fall. Hallmark Drama, a new channel to complement Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries will premiere October 1, and Bill Abbott, president/CEO of Crown Media Family Networks, was […]
Katie Couric is leaving her global news anchor job at Yahoo in the wake of Verizon’s takeover of the company last month, and the exit of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Couric will continue to work on new Verizon division Oath on a project basis. Couric joined Yahoo in 2013.
YouTube TV seems to be doing pretty well for itself. The Google-owned live TV service, which first launched in five markets back in April, has now seen 2 million app installs, according to the app store analytics firms App Annie and Sensor Tower. 700,000 of those downloads have come since just last week, when […]
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