The Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA is coming to more than 35 million homes next month, allowing fans to connect to Olympic sports, athletes and stories all year round. Olympic Channel programming will complement 400 hours of Olympic Sports coverage already scheduled to air in 2017 on NBC and NBCSN, and streamed on NBCSports.com […]
Seasons 2 and 3 of FX’s American Crime Story anthology series are being swapped. The Assassination of Gianni Versace, focused on the 1997 murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace outside his Miami Beach home, was initially set for season 3, but will air first, in early 2018. Katrina, about the hurricane and its aftermath, will […]
Noriko Kelley has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Program Planning & Scheduling, CBS Entertainment. Kelley succeeds and will report to Kelly Kahl, who was recently named President of the Division.
Is Amazon Video’s viewership catching up with that of Netflix? Maybe to some extent – in Europe, anyway. Research firm Parrot Analytics took a look at data for 20 major European markets, finding that Netflix content saw 45% more demand than Amazon content between January and April. That may sound like a big gap, but […]
Smosh is about to lose one of its two founding members. Anthony Padilla confirmed that he is leaving the YouTube comedy group – which has been active for the past eleven years – in order to pursue other projects. Smosh is the most successful content brand operating under digital media group Defy Media, having pulled […]
FOX Sports is beefing up awareness for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia next year courtesy of new cross-functional marketing efforts across broadcast, digital and social media platforms that kick off with a promo featuring the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona. Meanwhile, yesterday saw FS1, FS2, FOX Sports Regional […]
New Era Cap announced that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott signed on to be a brand ambassador for the company, joining athletes that include Le’Veon Bell (Pittsburgh Steelers), Khalil Mack (Oakland Raiders), Greg Olsen (Carolina Panthers) and Sterling Shepard (New York Giants). New Era will launch its first 2017 on-field campaign leading into NFL Training […]
With E3 wrapping up today, the past week of presentations, introductions, partnerships and competition set the tone for the future of industry during the gaming community’s annual voyage to the marketing playground. While we will break down all the news below, Twitter delivered Cynopsis Esports its rankings of top topics from the expo through Wednesday. […]
Disney is diving deep on the gaming front this summer, announcing plans for D|XP, a daily summer programming block dedicated to the world of gaming starting July 15 and running from 9p-3a on Disney XD. The programming block will showcase games, publishers, events and personalities across the gaming landscape featuring content produced in collaboration with […]
JP Morgan Chase wants its ads removed from NBC’s Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly newsmagazine show that features an interview with Alex Jones, the controversial Infowars founder, radio talk show host and Donald Trump pal. This according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported JP Morgan asked that its local TV and digital ads be […]