What to do about ad blockers? One solution: block the people using them. The New York Times has begun dipping its toes into those waters. The Gray Lady is targeting what it calls a “relatively small” number of readers, withholding content unless users voluntarily whitelist the Times or become subscribers. “We are opposed to ad […]
CBS Sports and Turner Sports announced that this year’s edition of NCAA March Madness Live will serve its most platforms ever covering the Men’s Basketball Championship. The app is developed in partnership with the NCAA and will be offered across 12 platforms including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku players and Roku TV models. This […]
FOX Sports and NextVR are taking their partnership to the Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament, announcing that the event’s quarterfinal, semifinal and championship games will be broadcast in virtual reality from Madison Square Garden starting March 10. The announcement marks the first time a college basketball tournament will be broadcast live to a global audience […]
The stars shone at the BET Honors, which were held Saturday night at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC, and will air on the network March 14 at 8p. Honorees this year are Lee Daniels, Mellody Hobson, Eric H. Holder, Jr., Patti Labelle and L.A. Reid. Cynopsis caught up with BET chair/CEO Debra Lee on […]
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is stepping out of Capitol Hill and into wartime for Soldier Girls, another series she’ll helm for HBO. The Emmy-winning star and exec producer of HBO’s Veep is developing the series based on the nonfiction book Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe, which tells […]
Like Netflix before it, Hulu is beginning to stockpile exclusive documentaries. First came the January announcement that the service would be the exclusive streaming home of all future IFC docs. The latest development: Hulu has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to He Named Me Malala, a feature-length documentary that made its TV debut on National […]
Surprisingly enough, this is news: Netflix now has the French rights to House of Cards. While Americans have come to identify the political drama as a Netflix-exclusive series, the show’s first three seasons actually aired on the pay TV channel Canal Plus in France. Netflix’s acquisition of the show’s French streaming rights is a step […]
With one year completed in its new media deals, Major League Soccer opened the doors this weekend to a new season with the hopes of growing recent audience momentum across its platforms. Bolstered by 2015 viewership upticks across ESPN, UniMas and FOX Sports, the league is now expanding is digital assets, which also spiked last […]
RIP to the great Arthur “Bud” Collins, whose work covering tennis for decades included the likes of NBC, Tennis Channel, PBS, CBS, and ESPN, who died at 86. The historian and icon of the sport authored a number of books, including “Bud Collins’ Tennis Encyclopedia,” and last fall the USTA named its Grand Slam tournament’s […]
The final episode of Discovery’s Mythbusters airs Saturday, March 5 at 8p, immediately followed by Mythbusters: The Reunion at 9p. All five hosts, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara reunite to look back at the science show that began in 2002.
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