Christina Aguilera will perform on the two half-hour premiere episodes of Spike TV’s Tracks on Thursday, September 1 at 10:30p, right after her appearance on the net’s Lip Sync Battle. Aguilera is an exec producer on the new musical game show, hosted by Shad Moss (a.k.a. Bow Wow).
Apple will fund a new documentary about Cash Money Records, the record label of hip hop and rap artists such as Nicki Minaj, Drake, and DJ Khaled. The documentary is the next step in Apple’s nascent original content efforts; the tech giant is already moving forward with Planet of the Apps, a reality competition series […]
Snapchat is planning a major staff expansion in New York. The Los Angeles-based company agreed to create 396 New York State jobs in exchange for $5 million worth of tax breaks from Empire State Development, a state-owned organization. In order to receive the tax break, Snapchat must create the new jobs over the next five […]
Say hello to Hard Rock Stadium, courtesy of a new deal between the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock International. The 18-year agreement will see the newly-dubbed venue serve as the home of the Miami Dolphins, University of Miami football team, Orange Bowl, Super Bowl LIV and the 100th anniversary of the NFL, among other events, […]
The NHL announced that autoTRADER.ca, EA, Esso/Exxon Mobil, Geico, Pizza Pizza, SAP, Sonnet and Upper Deck have joined the roster of Official Partners for the World Cup of Hockey 2016. Each partner will soon go to market with extensive World Cup-themed promotional campaigns, consumer-focused opportunities, in-broadcast media buys, and on-site activations targeting hockey fans around […]
Machinima is evolving its content strategy, announcing plans to overall some of its existing channels and launch new ones in a move “to better reach various audience segments within its universe of gamers and alpha fans.” Anchoring the lineup of tweaks will be the relaunch of Machinima Prime as Primr and the repositioning of Machinima […]
Twitch unveiled the first round of confirmed exhibitors and sponsors for TwitchCon 2016, with the event set to feature T-Pain as a special guest performer at TwitchCon: The Party. Overall, more than 50 game publishers, developers, vendors, software and hardware manufacturers, and other members of the industry are locked in, including Xbox, Electronic Arts, Daybreak […]
Former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is getting his own, half-hour show on MSNBC to recap the day’s presidential election news. Though Williams has been a frequent anchor on MSNBC since his return from a six-month suspension in 2015 for misstatements about war reporting in 2003, the 11p cable show, set to run through […]
Soledad O’Brien has partnered with Hearst Television to host political magazine program Matter of Fact. Hosted for season one by Fernando Espuelas, the show has received commitments for a second season on Hearst TV stations as well as stations owned by CBS, Meredith, Nexstar, E.W. Scripps, Tegna and Tribune. The re-launched program with O’Brien as […]
Amazon wants to get its original shows in front of more eyeballs. That’s why the company is making 10 of its series pilots available on Amazon Video’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Pilots now streaming on Facebook and YouTube include those of Transparent, The Man In the High Castle, and several others.