20th Century Fox has lost some major execs to Netflix of late; now it wants to make Netflix pay for it. Fox has filed a lawsuit against the streaming giant, arguing that this year’s hires of Tara Flynn and Marcos Waltenberg represented an intentional effort to incentivize the execs to break contracts that ran through […]
Last weekend saw more than 200 countries and territories – spanning six continents – gear up for the return of the World Cup of Hockey. Stateside, ESPN saw its own reintroduction to the sport as the official carrier of the tournament as Team USA tumbled to Team Europe on Saturday. The two-week span sees ESPN […]
A hot weekend of college football proved a boon for the primary networks. CBS Sports saw its Alabama/Ole Miss battle on Saturday generate an average overnight score of 5.4/12 for the SEC on CBS to mark the highest-rated daytime game and second highest-rated overall of the 2016 college football season. The matchup’s Nielsen numbers were […]
Smithsonian Channel has partnered with the National Museum of African American History and Culture to produce 130 videos for the inaugural exhibits of the museum, which opens September 24 amid a host of celebrations. The videos, comprising 450 minutes of footage with an estimated 8,000 images, will be displayed on monitors ranging in size from […]
Stephen Colbert, meet the Boss. Bruce Springsteen will make his first appearance on CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert next Friday, September 23 to talk about his forthcoming autobiography “Born to Run” and companion album.
According to a new study from RBC Capital Networks, Netflix received more viewership in 2015 than each of the major media conglomerates’ combined TV networks. But the study also found that, as compared to many TV networks, the streaming giant generated less than half the profit per hour of viewership. That may sound like a […]
What does Vice Media have in common with Godzilla? It’s out to conquer Japan. The millennial-oriented news behemoth has inked a content distribution deal with the Japanese mobile phone giant NTT Docomo. And Vice also expanded an existing deal with AbemaTV, a mobile TV provider. Under the deal with NTT Docomo, locally-produced Vice content-as […]
NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus is taking on a new role as NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke named him as the company’s Chairman of NBC Broadcasting and Sports in a shakeup following the departure of Ted Harbert. Lazarus originally joined the company to oversee sports in 2011. “Mark has had a major impact on NBC Sports […]
TNF has its first syndicated deal, as Twitter and Time Inc. locked in a deal to allow NFL fans to watch the Twitter live stream on SI.com, as well as Time.com and eventually on TheMMQB.com and Fansided.com with the experience set to include the live Twitter video as well as a related timeline of tweets […]
Turner struck deals with Walt Disney Studios and 20th Century Fox for the entire Star Wars movie collection, giving TNT and TBS exclusive linear basic cable and ad-supported on-demand rights. The agreement with Disney includes the network premiere windows to last year’s hit Star Wars: The Force Awakens as well as this year’s Rogue One: […]
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