The 2018 American Athletic Conference college basketball semifinal and championship games will have a new home in 2018, moving to CBS courtesy of a sublicense agreement with ESPN. The semifinals next year will be played on Saturday, March 10 at 1 and 3:30p with the championship game slated for March 11 at 3p. ESPN will […]
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Megyn Kelly’s newsmagazine show has a premiere date on NBC: June 4 at 7p, opposite CBS’s venerable 60 Minutes. Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly will have a limited run in summer, returning after Sunday Night Football and the Winter Olympics end in early 2018.
Cartoon Network renewed Ben 10 for a second season. Since its April launch, the animated series has reached nearly 41 million viewers across linear, mobile and VOD platforms. In addition to new aliens, season 2 will include new console and mobile games, as well as other immersive experiences.
It’s been quite the odyssey, but Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo is finally expected to close in mid-June, according to Verizon CEO and Chairman Lowell McAdam. McAdam broke the news in Boston, at J.P. Morgan’s Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference. He let slip one other notable tidbit as well: Once the deal is finished, Verizon […]
Just how robust is the U.S. virtual reality industry? That depends on how you define VR. In a new study, eMarketer finds that over 22 million people living in the U.S. will experience VR monthly in 2017; the number is pegged to more than double by 2019, hitting 49 million. However – and this is […]
NBC Sports Group locked in US media rights to the Rugby World Cup in a seven-year deal with World Rugby that includes the Rugby World Cups in 2019 and 2023; the Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2017 and 2021; the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2018 and 2022; and the annual World Rugby U20 Championships […]
Speaking of deals, ESPN basketball pillar Dick Vitale signed a contract extension with ESPN that runs through the 2019-20 season. Vitale will serve as the main analyst games that include college basketball regular-season action primarily on ESPN and ESPN2 and the network’s Champ Week coverage. “ESPN has been my second family. Everyone knows my love […]
As if Vine’s fate wasn’t already ignominious enough. Data from Twitter’s now-defunct video app may have been exposed to malicious third parties, the company confirmed in a mass email to users. “[W]e discovered that the email address and phone number linked to your account were exposed,” Twitter wrote. The company emphasized that the information can’t […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda is joining the DuckTales chorus. The Hamilton mastermind is lending his voice to the Disney XD animated series reboot, set to premiere later this year, in the recurring role of Gizmoduck. The series got a season 2 renewal ahead of its summer launch. Miranda is in good company in the children’s entertainment realm. […]
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