Oscars accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers took the blame for Beatty and Dunaway being given the wrong envelope on Sunday. “We made a human error,” Tim Ryan, U.S. chairman and senior partner of PwCtold USA Today. “Our partner on the left side of the stage, Brian Cullinan, he handed the wrong envelope to Warren Beatty. And then […]
The idea of YouTube and TV being separate entities may one day be a distant memory. Comcast announced plans to launch a YouTube video app for its Xfinity X1 set-top platform. The app is slated to roll out nationwide later this year. The move will place the web’s biggest video platform right alongside traditional TV […]
The gaming-centric live-streaming platform Twitch is about to get into e-commerce. (No surprise, given that it’s owned by Amazon.) Beginning later this spring, Twitch says it will start allowing its 17,000 game-broadcasting partners to sell games and in-game content, directly from their own Twitch pages, as they’re streaming gameplay. Game publishers will take 70% of […]
NASCAR’s opening act this season in the Daytona 500 proved to be an all-round win. A last-lap pass for the win by Kurt Busch in the first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race on FOX delivered an average audience of 12 million across FOX platforms with 23.3 million viewers tuning in for all or part […]
FIBA is adding a swoosh to its gameplay, with the International Basketball Federation announcing a deal with Nike for an 11-year commercial agreement covering FIBA’s Senior Men’s, Women’s and Youths’ flagship national team competitions. Nike will benefit from long-term global marketing rights related to the major FIBA national team competitions while FIBA’s ambitions to grow […]
There were two sets of thank you speeches for best picture at the Oscars last night. Presenter Warren Beatty opened envelope, and handed it to co-presenter Faye Dunaway, who announced La La Land as the winner. But in fact Moonlight was the victor. Informed of the mistake, La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz said from […]
Actor Bill Paxton died on Saturday due to complications from surgery. He was 61. Paxton, whose television credits include HBO’s Big Love and History Channel’s Hatfields & McCoys, also starred in CBS’s Training Day, just launched February 2. “We are truly devastated at the passing of our friend Bill Paxton,” said Training Day producer Jerry […]
CBS yanked Doubt from the schedule after two episodes. The legal drama premiered to 5.29 million viewers and .8 among A18-49 in Live+SD Nielsens, dropping to 4 million viewers and .6 in the demo its second time out. Season 2 of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders will launch Wednesday, March 8 at 10p, replacing the Katherine […]
Sling TV, Dish Network’s OTT-based live TV service, is getting a little cheaper. Sling announced lower prices for four of its Extras bundles. The four bundles – News, Comedy, Entertainment, and Kids – will now cost $10 a month each, down from $20. In addition, for a single price of $30 per month, customers will […]
As detailed in a recent Business Insider report, it looks like FCC boss Ajit Pai is pushing to put the brakes on a set of Obama-era regulations that would require internet service providers to get consent from consumers before sharing their data with advertisers. The rules, passed on a party-line vote by a Democratic majority, […]
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