NBCUniversal will air a record 6,755 hours of Olympics programming across networks and digital platforms this summer, 260.5 of that on NBC and most of it live. In addition to NBC and Telemundo, cable nets Bravo, CNBC, Golf Channel, MSNBC, NBC Sports Network, NBC Universo and USA, plus basketball and soccer specialty channels provided to […]
ABC announced a fall premiere schedule that starts Monday, September 12 at 8p with Dancing With the Stars, and stretches through Tuesday, October 11 with The Middle (season 8) at 8p, American Housewife (series premiere) at 8:30p, Fresh Off the Boat (season 3) at 9p and The Real O’Neals (season 2) at 9:30p. In between: […]
Two weeks after acquiring LinkedIn for over $26 billion, Microsoft is wasting no time in upping monetization efforts for the professional networking site. LinkedIn will now offer programmatic buying for LinkedIn Display Ads. The offering comes on the heels of a programmatic advertising pilot program, which launched on LinkedIn in Q3 of 2015.
Twitter just signaled that it’s jumping into virtual and augmented reality in a big way. As first reported by UploadVR, the company has hired Alessandro Sabatelli as Director of AR and VR. Sabatelli will lead an augmented reality team within Twitter Cortex, the company’s division focused on AI and machine learning. Twitter isn’t quite new […]
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Dance Moms host Abby Lee Miller pleaded guilty yesterday to federal bankruptcy fraud charges. Miller had been accused of trying to hide $775,000 in income during her Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and sneaking cash into the U.S. from Australia in her group’s luggage to avoid reporting the money. Miller’s lawyers asked for a maximum sentence of […]
“Sunday Fun and Games” opened big for ABC. With a repeat of America’s Funniest Home Videos leading into the game show premieres, the network won the night in Total Viewers (6.6 million) and A18-49 (1.3/5). ABC’s premieres of $100,000 Pyramid (1.7/5), Celebrity Family Feud (1.5/6) and Match Game (1.5/5) ranked as the Top 3 broadcasts […]
According to a new report from Nielsen, increased use of smartphones and tablets is continuing to eat into TV viewership. The report found that, in Q1 of 2016, the amount of daily time that U.S. adults spent consuming media on smartphones rose over 60% year-year-year. (A year ago, it was 62 minutes daily; now it’s […]
When major entertainment companies start appointing designated virtual reality executives, you know it’s time to take the technology very seriously. Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group has named Jake Zim as its SVP of Virtual Reality. The hire was made by Group Chairman Tom Rothman. Zim, who had served as Sony Motion Picture Group’s SVP of […]
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