Freeform ordered a third season of saga series Shadowhunters, to air in 2018. Second half of season 2 launches Monday, June 5 at 8p.
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YouTube stops Restricted Mode feature from blocking LGBT content
Last month, YouTube came under some fierce criticism when it confirmed that its Restricted Mode feature, which is designed to shield minors from offensive content, had been hiding a number of innocuous videos that touched on LGBT themes. (Among the blocked videos was one of a lesbian couple reciting their wedding vows.) The video giant […]
Twitch expands monetization features
Twitch is opening its monetization features to thousands of additional users. The Amazon-owned live-streaming service announced a new revenue-sharing feature, called the Affiliate Program, that will be open to creators that fit even a low threshold of metrics such as time spent streaming and number of followers. The feature will launch later this month. Previously, […]
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FloSports’ Big plans
Friday saw the Big 12 Conference deepen its relationship with FloSports, announcing plans for the steaming platform to provide live and on-demand coverage of the 2017 Big 12 Tennis and Outdoor Track & Field Championships on FloTennis.com and FloTrack.com, respectively. The partnership between FloSports and the Big 12 Conference officially launched in January 2017 and […]
Cavs win continues TNT’s hot pace
Turner Sports reports that Thursday night’s NBA Playoff action saw the Cavs/Pacers battle hand TNT with an average of 3.6 million viewers, scoring a 42% rise of the equivalent game in 2016. The game won night on cable (marking the fifth time in five nights for the network), and delivered TV’s top program for audiences/Men […]
TV Land renews two comedies
TV Land renewed comedies Younger and Teachers. Younger, which returns Wednesday, June 28 for its fourth season, was picked up for a 12-episode fifth season. Teachers, which returns with the back half of season 2 this fall, has been renewed for a 20-episode third season. The news comes on top of the early second season […]
MTV awards return to La La Land
The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards are returning to the greater Los Angeles area, set to air live from The Forum in Inglewood, CA on Sunday, August 27 at 8p. Last year, the show was staged at New York’s Madison Square Garden. “MTV, at 35 years old, has been around almost as long as the […]
Report: Google to release its own Chrome ad blocker
In the not-too-distant past, this would have seemed inconceivable. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google plans to introduce its own ad-blocking feature to its Chrome browser. The feature will work for both mobile and desktop. According to the Journal’s sources, the feature could be switched on by default. It would filter out ads that […]
Warner’s Machinima bows out of NewFronts
There goes another one. Machinima, the Warner Bros. Digital Networks-owned media company geared toward gamers, has become the fourth company to leave the 2017 Digital Content NewFronts. Yahoo, Fullscreen and BuzzFeed were the other three. (A fifth company, Studio71, announced that its NewFront presentation will be a streaming-only affair, but it’s still part of the […]
Pac-12’s Murphy-Stephans takes on new game
Pac-12 Networks President Lydia Murphy-Stephans is stepping down from her role this June where she will launch a media advisory company later in the year and act as a consultant to the channels. “As Pac-12 Networks’ first general manager, Lydia’s energy and leadership were critical in turning our ambitious vision into a reality,” said Commissioner […]
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