Turner Sports is teaming with Snapchat via a multi-year content deal that leverages Snapchat’s Live Story product with the goal of “enhancing fans’ storytelling and viewing experiences through Snapchat’s coverage of major sporting events, including year-round NCAA Championships.” The partnership debuts during the NCAA Tournament. Snapchatters will have access to a variety of official brand […]
Break out those umbrellas because Sharknado 4 will hit in July. Syfy and The Asylum announced today that Ian Ziering will slay again in the newest installment, reprising his role as shark-fighting hero Fin Shepard, while Tara Reid is set to return as April Wexler to reveal the outcome of the fan-voted #AprilLives or #AprilDies […]
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s comedy series Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse returns on Friday, April 1 with back-to-back episodes at 9p and 9:30p. The previous season of the series was Friday night’s No. 1 original series on all of TV among African-American women and was Friday night’s No. 2 original cable series among African-American […]
Today at South by Southwest, Vimeo will announce its new slate of original content. That includes Wizard Mode, the platform’s first original feature-length doc, Lonely and Horny, a new series from CollegeHumor’s Jake and Amir, a concert film featuring Toro y Moi, and Garfunkel and Oates: Trying to Be Special, a new comedy special. Vimeo […]
As a slew of companies get into the VR game this year, pay close attention to how they differentiate themselves on the market. The HTC Vive and the Sony Playstation VR headsets, for instance, will be particularly gamer friendly. Oculus, on the other hand, will likely be the most seamlessly synched into the social media […]
AT&T will tee off on its first-ever live 4K Ultra High Definition broadcast stateside with The Masters next month on DIRECTV. The event will run on the new DIRECTV 4K Channel and allow viewers – with compatible 4K UHD equipment – to watch coverage of Amen Corner for all four rounds of Tournament play starting […]
YES Network is staging a marketing volley against Comcast ahead of the hew Yankees season. The TV network launched an ad campaign encouraging viewers to switch from the cable company after Comcast dropped the channel during a contract dispute. Ads began running yesterday in a move to pressure Comcast to restore the channel to its […]
Fox News Channel is set to air one-hour interviews and voter Q&As with each of the four remaining Republican candidates across primetime on tonight going head-to-head with CNN’s Democratic debate at 9p and airing a day ahead of CNN’s GOP debate on Thursday. FNC’s election coverage begins at 7p with On The Record With Greta […]
Midtown’s Paley Center for Media was the site of Game Show Network’s Upfront presentation on Tuesday, a low-key but upbeat affair for a network boasting its fourth consecutive year of growth in all key demos, and its most-watched year ever in 2015. “Our little niche television network is now a top 30 television network,” said […]
Netflix and Hulu are already getting on the VR bandwagon, so this was probably inevitable. According to a recent job posting – first reported by Upload VR – Amazon is searching for a software developer to work on an Amazon Video virtual reality app. And this may mean more than just watching existing Amazon […]