Upcoming TLC scripted drama Tyler Perry’s Too Close To Home added Heather Locklear (Melrose Place) and Matt Battaglia (Thor) as guest stars. Cast in leading roles are Danielle Savre, Brock O’Hurn (Boo! A Madea Halloween), Kelly Sullivan (Young & the Restless), Brad Benedict (Letters to God) and Brooke Anne Smith (Awkward).
Live-streams from Periscope, Twitter’s app for broadcasting live video, can now be embedded on any website. Periscope live-streams have been available through Twitter timelines since January, but this move potentially exposes Periscope streams to a significantly wider audience.
YouTube has been blocked in China for some years now, but the gaming-oriented digital media company Machinima is finding its way into the country nonetheless. Under a new exclusive licensing deal with the Chinese Internet company Sohu, Machinima will make ad-supported programming available on the Online Video PGC (Professionally Generated Content) platform, Sohu’s online video […]
It’s official. ESPN and the ACC formally unveiled the launch of the ACC Network at the conference’s annual Football Kickoff media event in Charlotte. Backed by a 20-year partnership, the platform will run through at least 2036 and with the first part kicking off in Aug. with more than 600 exclusive live events from across […]
The NBA pulled the plug on Charlotte. The league announced plans to relocate the 2017 All-Star Game from the city “with the hope of rescheduling for 2019” due to the state’s controversial LGBT law aka the Bathroom Bill. “While we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law in every city, state, and country in […]
Dwayne Johnson is flexing again, this time developing scripted drama series Muscle Beach, which USA Network has acquired. From Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions and Flynn Picture Co., the project is set in a l bodybuilding gym in ‘80s Venice Beach, CA, where an ensemble of lost souls aim to reinvent themselves.
Animal Planet will premiere Toucan Nation, the story of Grecia, the toucan in Costa Rica whose unconscionable abuse sparked international outrage and inspired a national animal welfare campaign, on August 24 at 10p. Seeking to improve the life of this helpless bird after half of his beak was torn from his face, animal rescuers and […]
Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings division is giving customers the gift of authenticated viewability. The division will now support DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, and Moat, arguably the three most prominent companies when it comes to third-party ad viewability measurement. The three companies, all of which have some form of authentication from the Media Rating Council, will […]
Spotify, in partnership with the programmatic specialists AppNexus, Rubicon, and The Trade Desk, is opening up its audio ad inventory to real-time programmatic buying. The move will allow advertisers to buy inventory for the free, ad-supported version of Spotify’s mobile app, targeting users based on criteria such as gender, age, and musical preferences.
FIBA is taking its presence to the next level with the launch of FIBA Americas TV, a new channel offering international basketball play to the US and Latin America for the first time on its own dedicated TV network. THEMA-Alterna’TV, a Canal+ Company, is launching the branded network to cable operators in stateside and marks […]
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