Do we have a dark horse? Yahoo recently set an April 18 deadline for companies to submit bids to buy its web business. A new player has emerged: The Daily Mail. In a story that the Mail later confirmed, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.K. newspaper and website is in talks with […]
The NHL has its lineup of broadcast times and locations for the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs across NBC, NBCSN, USA, MSNBC and NHL Network. Eastern Conference Washington Capitals/Philadelphia Flyers Game 1: April 14 at Washington, 7p NBCSN Game 2: April 16 at Washington, 7p CNBC Game 3: April 18 at Philadelphia, 7p […]
The Warriors/Spurs battle handed NBA TV with an average of 2.6 million total viewers to become the network’s most-viewed telecast of all time and ranked as cable television’s highest-rated sports program of the night, based on metered market delivery. Viewership for Sunday’s telecast was up 78% when compared to the previous all-time mark, set earlier […]
Add CBS to networks shooting for more true crime, with an order for an unscripted anthology series that will feature a new case every season, starting with the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey. The news follows word that NBC is at work on franchise extender Law & Order: True Crime. What thinks Henry Schleiff, group […]
Gabrielle Carteris, who had been acting president of SAG-AFTRA since Ken Howard’s death on March 23, was elected president by the union’s board of directors. The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum had been EVP since 2012. “Ken was a great union leader, friend and mentor,” said Carteris. “He left big shoes to fill, but with the […]
Netflix, now active in almost 200 countries, is in the midst of an aggressive global expansion. Across the pond, it seems to be going particularly well. According to a new study from Enders Analysis, the service gained 1.8 million subs last year, more than the 1.3 million subs gained by all other streaming services […]
Just how much potential does live video have? On Friday, two BuzzFeed employees wrapped rubber bands around a watermelon until it exploded. The whole thing was live-streamed on Facebook, and lasted about 45 minutes. It garnered 800,000 concurrent viewers – the most ever for a Facebook Live video. Let’s repeat that: 40-plus minutes of rubber […]
Now over a year old, Premier Boxing Champions is embracing year two with a buffet of video content designed to reintroduce and connect fans to the sport. Recently, PBC revealed that by leveraging Facebook and Facebook Live, television’s top boxing series saw spikes via dedicated content on the platform designed to offer a “fan-first, behind-the-scenes […]
With the spotlight on Jordan Spieth, ESPN’s ratings for the Masters on Friday drew a 2.2 household score, averaging 3.060 million viewers, according to fast national data from Nielsen. That marks growth among both rating and viewership, up from a 2.1 rating and an average of 2.952 million viewers in 2015 and a 1.8 rating […]
Ben Silverman has landed in the chairman’s seat at Propagate Content, and will serve as co-CEO along with longtime collaborator Howard T. Owens. The company, which is expanding its programming slate to include all genres, received an additional round of investments form A+E Networks and has partnered with Will.i.am and Apple on an unscripted series […]
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