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Cesar Conde is taking charge of all Spanish-language content at NBCUniversal, which elevated Conde to the newly created position of chairman, NBCUniversal International Group and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. The latter includes Telemundo Network, NBC Universo Cable Network, Telemundo International, Telemundo Local Stations, Telemundo Digital Media and Emerging Business and NBC Deportes. “Telemundo is one of […]
Vanessa Williams will join The Good Wife in a recurring role this November. Williams will play Courtney Boalt, a successful businesswoman who is potentially interested in backing Peter Florrick’s (Chris Noth) campaign for President. The series returns to CBS for its seventh season Sunday, October 4, at 9p.
For the first time, a major cyber attack successfully targeted Apple’s App Store. A number of Chinese developers accidentally used XCodeGhost, a counterfeit, malware-infected version of Apple’s Xcode app-building software. The program steals user information, and was embedded in hundreds of apps, mostly in China. Affected apps include Angry Birds 2 and the Tencent-developed WeChat, […]
Yesterday, Cynopsis Digital noted that Jaunt VR’s Series C funding round clocked in at over $50 million. Well, that was the unofficial report – the official numbers are in, and it turns out the company raised about $65 million. It was the largest-ever funding event for a VR company, and Jaunt has raised over $100 […]
The NFL Players Association is making a move into the content game, announcing the launch of Athlete Content & Entertainment, aka ACE Media. The company will serve as an original content business that will “identify and create programming opportunities for athletes around the world” and come out of the gate by leveraging the NFLPA’s exclusive […]
Big day for Sinclair on the sports front. First of all, the company’s American Sports Network pinned down a pair of deals to beef up content for the platform. ASN inked a sublicense agreement with ESPN to carry men’s basketball games from the AAC beginning with the new season, with up to 10 games showcased […]
It’s belt-tightening time at Cablevision. Shortly after the announcement that his company had struck a $17.7 billion deal for the house that Charles Dolan built, Altice SA founder Patrick Drahi talked cost-cutting. “I pay as little as I can,” said Drahi at a Goldman Sachs conference. “No one in our company is making more than […]
Ordinary People, produced by musician John Legend and his supermodel/TV host wife, Chrissy Teigen, has a pilot order. The romantic comedy, named after Legend’s hit song, is loosely based on the celeb couple’s life; music will be incorporated into the show.
Fashion, beauty and lifestyle site Refinery29 interviewed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In the chat, a portion of which is available on Refinery 29’s YouTube page, Clinton discusses issues central to her campaign, including campus sexual assault and equal pay for women. Refinery29, which targets a young female audience, has been steadily adding to its video […]