Android users can now participate in the Periscope craze. Twitter’s latest app acquisition, which allows users to live stream content directly with from and to their phone, went live on Android devices yesterday. Twitter bought the app for a reported $100 million earlier this year.
Good news for Dodgers fans. Following Charter Communications move to purchase Time Warner Cable, the company told the LA Times that it will begin offering the Los Angeles Dodgers TV channel, SportsNet LA, in Southern California. The channel is expected to launch for Charter Customers in the next few weeks. Time Warner Cable has been […]
ESPN saw Game 4 of the 2015 NBA Western Conference Finals reel in viewers to rank as the most-watched telecast of the 2015 NBA Playoffs so far, according to Nielsen Fast Nationals. The win by the Rockets handed the channel with 8,280,000 viewers for a 59% markup over the last time ESPN televised Game 4 […]
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TLC yanked 19 Kids and Counting repeats from its lineup amid reports that oldest son Josh Duggar molested five underage girls, including his sisters, 12 years ago. Duggar issued an apology on Thursday, admitting he’d acted “inexcusably” and saying he had confessed to his parents, “who took several steps to help me address the situation.” […]
Actress Anne Meara died May 24 of natural causes. She was 85. In addition to 1974’s Kate McShane, and a 1986 sitcom, The Stiller and Meara Show with her husband of 61 years, Jerry Stiller, the four-time Emmy nominee appeared on numerous shows, including Archie Bunker’s Place, Rhoda, Alf, The King of Queens and Will […]
Santa is giving Bill Murray fans quite the gift this holiday season: a Netflix Christmas special. Titled A Very Murray Christmas, Murray, Sofia Coppola (Murray’s Lost in Translation director) and Mitch Glazer wrote the script and Coppola directs. The December special revolves around Murray’s Xmas party, which takes a turn when a major snowstorm threatens […]
Watcheroo Premieres and Tune-in Alerts for May 25-31: – Yahoo live stream with Live Nation at Yahoo! Live available this week week: Ed Kowalcyzk on May 25 at 6:00p ET; The Rentals on May 26 at 10:15p ET; Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers on May 27 at 9:00p ET; The Glitch Mob on May 28 […]
Where does a brand go when it is looking to reinvent its consumer perception? In the case of Timex, company executives went to some of YouTube’s biggest stars turning to Frisbee trick-shot artist Brodie Smith and extreme sport videographer Devin Graham, aka Devin Supertramp. Launching the company’s new large-scale social media campaign, called the #MyExpedition […]
Basketball continued to roll over the weekend. TNT’s coverage of the 2015 NBA Eastern Conference Finals Game 3 on Sunday averaged 7.8 million total viewers and 4.7 U.S. HH rating in Nielsen Fast Nationals. That marked the most-viewed and highest-rated program of the day across all of television (cable and broadcast), based on metered market […]