Not too shabby as far worst-case scenarios go. A new regulatory filing from Yahoo reveals that, after the company’s acquisition by Verizon closes, CEO Marissa Mayer will receive about $23 million if she’s fired or leaves for good cause within a year. Also revealed in the filing: Former IAC CFO Thomas McIerney is slated to […]
As detailed in a report from Adweek, Facebook is getting set to launch a major business-to-business advertising effort. Starting March 16, the social giant will launch a campaign urging marketers to invest more dollars in mobile video ads, and, more generally, to create more ads that are geared toward audiences viewing in a mobile […]
Turner Sports and CBS Sports have their announcer lineups in place for coverage of the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Brian Anderson, Clark Kellogg and Lewis Johnson will open play with the First Four tonight starting at 6:40p, while Spero Dedes, Steve Smith, Len Elmore and Ros Gold-Onwude handle Wednesday’s microphone duties. Thursday’s […]
SCORE International unveiled an agreement with El Rey Network to carry the four-race 2017 SCORE World Desert Championship in Baja California as well as the special SEMA SCORE Baja 1000 Experience and SCORE Baja 1000 qualifying in Las Vegas. SCORE TV shows will continue to air internationally through syndication.
CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose is back in the morning show saddle today, after undergoing heart surgery last month to replace an aortic valve. “I can’t wait to see my friends at CTM who have been so gracious in sitting in for me and making up for the fact that I was not there,” […]
The season 29 premiere of CBS’s The Amazing Race has been moved from Friday, April 21 to Thursday, March 30 at 10p. Training Day shifts to Saturdays starting April 8, with all 7 remaining episodes broadcast on consecutive weeks; production had wrapped before the unexpected death of series star Bill Paxton on February 25 at […]
Hulu’s upcoming live TV service has something in common with YouTube’s: Neither of them will feature MTV, Comedy Central, or any other Viacom networks, at least to start. Hulu’s decision to move forward without a Viacom carriage deal was first reported by Bloomberg. The news comes shortly after the licensing deal between Viacom and Hulu […]
Amazon just rolled out a new video ad product. Simply called Amazon Video Ads, the out-stream ad format is now available to advertisers working within the Amazon Media Group. The multi-platform format enables advertisers to run an autoplay feature in videos as Amazon shoppers browse. The ads are automatically muted, but customers can choose to […]
Year seven of the CBS Sports/Turner Sports partnership for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship is underway this week, as live coverage of all 67 games will run across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV. With the First Four getting underway tomorrow, the staple event will this year see CBS […]
One World Sports appears to have a new owner as the network was rebranded as Eleven Sports over the weekend. The story was originally broken by World Soccer Talk and sources confirm that an announcement from the channel was expected in the coming days, although a spokesperson declined to comment. The initial report stated that […]