Fandango’s ever-expanding efforts to be more than just a ticketing service will reach a new high point this month. After more than a year of ramping up its original content offerings, The NBCU-owned company will launch its own branded OTT service. On March 30, Fandango introduces FandangoNOW, a movie and TV streaming channel. The service […]
T-Mobile is taking its partnership with Major League Baseball to the next level, announcing that the brand will give customers a full, free year’s subscription to MLB.TV Premium. In addition, T-Mobile will be the title sponsor of both the T-Mobile Home Run Derby during All-Star Week and the T-Mobile Junior Home Run Derby, a new […]
Non-endemic brands took another step toward eSports immersion as Pepsi inked a deal with OpTic Gaming to launch its new Brisk brand, Brisk Mate. rEvXP represents OpTic Gaming and facilitated the deal for the famed squad. “Sometimes it’s better to put the product into the hands of influencers who the audience looks up to instead […]
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly (The Kelly File) will host a one-hour special on Fox, interviewing celebrities and discussing her time covering the 2016 presidential campaign. Bill Geddie (The View) will produce the show, slated for Monday, May 23 at 8p. Kelly’s star was already on the rise at FNC when presidential candidate Donald Trump’s attacks […]
Matthew Perry (Friends) will play Ted Kennedy in four-hour miniseries The Kennedys: After Camelot, premiering on Reelz in 2017. Perry will also serve as exec producer.
If you like wrestlers in bizarre colored masks, it’s your lucky day. Flama, Univision’s digital media network for U.S.-born Hispanic millennials, is rolling out Becoming a Luchador, a new online docu-series starring YouTube celeb Eric Ochoa. The six-part series was developed by Flama and the Univision Creator Network, Univision’s network of content producers. It follows […]
Between its voice activation and its motion-sensitivity, the fourth gen Apple TV’s remote is a pretty nifty contraption. And one of these days you might just throw it in the garbage. It sounds like sci-fi, but Apple has patented an invention that would allow users to control objects on-screen simply by looking in the […]
The NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Championship is poised to set another record, according to Kantar Media, which announced that the tournament also produced a record-setting $1.19 billion of TV ad spending in 2015, according to its estimates. The 2015 numbers marked a 4.8% rise over the previous year and includes pre-game, game and post-game […]
Stacey Allaster is getting back into the tennis game. The former WTA Chairman and CEO will now serve in the newly created role of Chief Executive, Professional Tennis, with the USTA. She will be charged with setting the strategic vision for the USTA’s pro tennis division, with oversight that includes the US Open, the Emirates […]
The countdown is on. Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup make their long-awaited return to Cartoon Network in a reimagined series premiering with back-to-back episodes on Monday, April 4 at 6p. “Powerpuff Girls will deliver the best of the old show – but add a healthy injection of 2016,” Rob Sorcher, CN global chief content officer, tells […]