Alex Rodriguez is bound back to FOX Sports ahead of the MLB Postseason, where he will work as a studio analyst for coverage. He made his studio debut with the company last year and is now set to return to TV on Oct. 7 on FS1 for the start of the NLDS. Meanwhile, the company’s […]
NBCSN is touting its best quarter of all time from June 27-Sept. 25, drawing record viewership with a lineup that includes the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, NASCAR, the Premier League, IndyCar, Formula One, and Rio 2016 Paralympic coverage. According to Nielsen, NBCSN averaged a record 286,000 Total Day viewers in that span, besting last year […]
According to Nielsen, Monday’s presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump raked in 84 million sets of TV eyeballs – the largest debate audience in American history. But those numbers don’t even tell the whole story: YouTube says that it received nearly 2 million live concurrent views, which is a record for a iive-streamed […]
A new anthology series inspired by the late Alfred Hitchcock is in the works at Universal Cable Productions. UCP signed an overall development deal with Hitchcock’s estate to bring a re-imagining of his classics to the small screen. Welcome to Hitchcock will focus on a single season-long mystery or crime in legendary director/producer’s style.
FXX renewed You’re the Worst for a fourth season. The series, created and executive produced by Stephen Falk, debuted to record ratings in August. It is currently averaging 590,000 total viewers in Nielsen live-plus-seven numbers, up 13 percent from season two.
For a once-canceled series, The Mindy Project is doing pretty well for itself. The sitcom, which has aired on Hulu since its 2015 termination by Fox, just clinched a major syndication deal. Episodes from all five seasons of the series will air on Viacom’s VH1 and Disney’s Freeform. The arrangement comes as part of a […]
The NHL named Heidi Browning as the league’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer as part of a series of moves within the organization. She joins after leading digital marketing strategies and solutions for companies that most recently included Pandora, along with Fox Interactive Media and Universal McCann and will now focus on […]
Kellogg Company renewed ties with the USOC in a partnership extension that will run through the 2018 and 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Kellogg’s sponsorship category covers hot and cold cereal as well as granola, portable breakfasts and frozen breakfast. “It is an honor to continue to be associated with the USOC, and to help […]
Any remaining mental lines dividing sports and eSports continued to fade in the US this past week with the trifecta of news that included: the 76ers nabbing controlling stakes in Team Dignitas and Team Apex; Team Liquid selling controlling interest to an ownership group led Peter Guber and Ted Leonsis (along the likes of Magic […]
The Collegiate StarLeague inked an exclusive deal with Riot Games for the 2017 uLoL Campus Series, with the agreement seeing CSL working as the engine running the tournaments, managing logistics like registration, scheduling, qualification, production and broadcasting the upcoming season. In addition, CSL will beef up broadcasting to a minimum of six matches per week […]