Megyn Kelly landed an interview with Donald Trump for Megyn Kelly Presents, her May 17 special on Fox. Kelly had been a target of the GOP frontrunner in attacks Fox News Channel called “a sick obsession,” but the two appear to have cleared the air during a private meeting on April 13. “He was gracious […]
Fullscreen may have started as a humble MCN, but it’s grown by leaps and bounds. The company, owned by Otter Media (a joint venture of AT&T and The Chernin Group) is now a full-blown digital media apparatus, incubating talent and producing exclusive content. And as of today, Fullscreen has its own SVOD service as well. […]
According to the Wall Street Journal, a team of Facebook engineers is hard at work developing a standalone camera app that would enable immediate live-streaming and video posting. According to the report, the app is merely a prototype and may never see release. But don’t be surprised if it does; Facebook has been diving […]
After a 25 year run, it appears that it is the end of the line for Mike Tirico’s stay at ESPN. News broke yesterday, courtesy of SBJ, that Tirico has signed on to jump to NBC Sports after his contract expires over the summer, where he is expected to call the company’s new Thursday Night […]
Wednesday will see a company-wide NBCUniversal celebration to mark 100 days from the start of the 2016 Rio Olympics across broadcast, cable, affiliate, regional, digital, social, radio, Spanish-language, and theme park assets. Bob Costas will be in Rio de Janeiro to join a slate of NBCU programs, including Today, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, […]
Kelly Ripa will be back in her Live! With Kelly and Michael co-host seat tomorrow. Upset about the way the announcement that co-host Michael Strahan was decamping for ABC’s Good Morning America was handled, Ripa was a no-show on the syndie talker Wednesday and radio silent until Friday night, when she emailed staffers, “I wanted […]
ABC Studios is moving the production of Quantico from Montreal, where the first season of the ABC drama was shot, to New York. The move is expected to generate about $68 million in New York spending. “ABC Studios values the strong partnership that has developed with Empire State Development and we look forward to collaborating […]
Only six months after Apple launched iTunes Movies and the iBooks Store in China, a Chinese regulator has shut down the two services. In recent months and years, China has been going out of its way to open doors for domestic tech companies – and that has meant restricting the operations of their foreign competitors, […]
Is Netflix coming to your cable box? FierceCable reports that the National Cable TV Cooperative (NCTC), which conducts negotiations for more the 700 cable systems, is nearing an agreement that would give NCTC members the option to integrate Netflix into their own video service offerings through TiVo’s interface. (The deal, not surprisingly, is being […]
Speaking of Don Garber, the MLS Commissioner told a slew of Associated Press sports editors on Thursday that the next round of expansion decisions to push the league to 28 teams overall, would get take place in the mid-2020s and mark the final round of expansion for the league over the next 10 years. “There […]