With bowl season upon us, ESPN reports that over 179,000,000 fans viewed more than 100 billion minutes of college football games across ESPN’s Nielsen-rated television networks. In addition, ESPN games were streamed on 15,128,000 unique devices during the 2016 college football regular season. ABC’s Saturday Night Football finished the season as the most-watched college football […]
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JOB OF THE WEEK SENIOR WRITER/PRODUCER IFC NYC Lead creative for IFC Originals launches and brand campaigns. Idea-generating/writing/producing/directing mastermind with a comedy background and "Always On, Slightly Off" sensibility. 6-8 years experience. Submit resume and reel link HERE. CYNOPSISJOBS 12.06.16 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, December 6, 2016, and this is your weekly issue of […]
First Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell to the White House An Oprah Winfrey Special airs Monday, December 19 at 8p on CBS, with OWN airing a second showing on Wednesday, December 21 at 9p. The special, to be taped later this month, will feature Winfrey speaking to the First Lady for her final one-on-one interview […]
Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie signed a multi-year deal to extend her stay with the morning show, according to reports. NBC News has yet to confirm the new pact. Guthrie recently left on maternity leave, ahead of the birth of her second child.
Netflix is planning to bet big on unscripted shows next year; Sarandos says the SVOD giant will release about 20 such series in 2017, including the Sylvester Stallone-produced competition series Ultimate Beastmaster. Sarandos confirmed that, all told, Netflix’s 2017 content budget will hit about $6 billion, up from roughly $5 billion in 2016.
It looks like social platforms may soon be the outlets of choice for advertisers making use of “native” ad formats. Advertiser Perceptions, Inc.’s new survey of advertisers and agency execs carries some major warning signs for traditional content publishers. The survey asked respondents to estimate their budgeting for native advertising; respondents said that about 43% […]
Under Armour’s deal with MLB is complete, with the company announcing a 10-year deal with the league – as well as Fanatics – that makes the global performance brand the official uniform provider to MLB and marks Under Armour’s first-ever professional league uniform deal. The three organizations unveiled a “new revolutionary model” that launches with […]
Magic Johnson is heading back to ESPN, joining the network once again for NBA Countdown as a studio analyst and will first appear as part of ABC’s Christmas NBA coverage. He will then join NBA Countdown pre-game coverage for the NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC series starting Jan. 21, joining Michael Wilbon and Sage Steele.
Fox will take to the stage for TCA’s January winter tour after all. While Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC had all decided to forgo hosting executive sessions at the event, on Friday Fox changed course. “We were focused on presenting our mid-season programming and we underestimated the interest in this panel,” said the net in […]