Jori Arancio had been elevated to Senior Vice President, Communications, ABC Entertainment & ABC Studios. In the new role, Arancio will work closely with Patrick Moran, President, ABC Studios and Channing Dungey, President, ABC Entertainment, and be responsible for all strategic corporate communication efforts; consumer press campaigns; awards outreach; and talent relations for the two […]
All’s not well in the land of GoPro. The action-camera maker missed its Q3 goals by a borderline-catastrophic margin, pulling in only $240 million in revenue. That’s a year-over-year drop of $160 million. The company shipped about a million cameras, compared to almost 1.6 million last year, and posted a net loss of about $84 […]
Lionsgate’s upcoming SVOD service with Univision just landed a whole lot of content. Hemisphere Media Group, a specialist in Spanish-language programming, will provide the (still unnamed) service with its entire movie library. The service, slated to launch next year, will be aimed squarely at the U.S. Hispanic market. Lionsgate has become a go-to partner for […]
With just two races left in the Chase until a NASCAR champion is crowned, NBC Sports Group announced last week a new take on its racing programming with the debut of quiz show Shotgun on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app over the weekend. The series, which “tests contestants’ skills at answering questions while riding […]
Blizzard Entertainment made its reveal of the Overwatch League at BlizzCon over the weekend, announcing plans to serve up “a world-class, sports ecosystem for professional Overwatch competition” that echoes other sports leagues and focused on long-term stability for teams. The inaugural season will debut in 2017 and include a combine, where eligible players will be […]
The View co-hosts Joy Behar, Jedediah Bila, Candace Cameron Bure, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin are teaming up for The View Live Election Special, airing Tuesday, November 8 at 9p on Lifetime. Special correspondent SuChin Pak will provide live reports from the ground in Times Square, while ABC News’ Juju Chang shares up-to-the-minute election results. […]
Jeff Probst nabbed a guest spot on CBS comedy Life in Pieces. The Survivor host will play himself in an episode about a family member who wants to appear on the reality show.
Back in August, NBCUniversal reached a multi-year deal with Snapchat to release original shows, based on linear NBCU series, on Snapchat. For Snapchat, this comes as part of an initiative geared toward short-form programming, or Snapchat Shows. (Snapchat Shows are separate from both the Live Stories and Discover platforms.) Now NBCU is out with its […]
According a report from the The Verge, Google SVOD service YouTube Red had about 1.5 million paying subs as of late summer. (An additional one million subs were signed up on a free trial basis at that time.) The Verge got the figures from unnamed sources, and it’s not known what the service’s numbers are […]
A perfect storm of World Series Game 7, extra innings and the end of a century-old curse drummed up historic numbers for FOX, with the game scoring a massive 21.8/37 household rating/share with 40.045 million viewers tuning in on average. That marks the most-watched baseball game of any kind since Game 7 of the 1991 […]