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Tim Conway dies at 85

Comedian Tim Conway died May 14. He was 85. The beloved actor was best known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show. “He was one in a million,” said Burnett, “not only as a brilliant comedian but as a loving human being.”

ESPN’s Gambling Linq

ESPN's Gambling Linq

ESPN is diving deeper into the numbers game, formally partnering with Caesars Entertainment to deliver sports betting news and entertainment content to fans around the world. The deal includes building a new ESPN-branded studio at The LINQ Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, where sports betting-themed content will be created, along with segments for ESPN’s […]

Championship Sunday lifts NBCU platforms

NBC Sports’ saw its presentation of Championship Sunday, featuring all 10 Premier League matches running across NBCU platforms, notch record Total Audience Delivery with 2.2 million viewers tuning in, per Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. Sunday’s viewership milestone is up 19% over last year’s season finale. For the season, more than 35 million Americans watched NBC […]

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NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino: “We’re celebrating advertising”

Linda Yaccarino promoted to Chairman, Global Advertising, Partnerships

“Today we’re celebrating advertising and the extraordinary content that makes this industry the best it has ever been,” said NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino, Chairman of Advertising and Client Partnerships, from the stage of Radio City Music Hall. In between appearances by the likes of Ted Danson, Tina Fey and Amy Pohler, Oscar winner Rami Malek, Olympic […]

Kerry Washington joins The Jeffersons family

Kerry Washington has joined Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’, the live sitcom special from Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear airing Wednesday, May 22 on ABC. The event will recreate an original episode from each of the two iconic series; Washington will play Helen Willis.

Big Discovery for Golf Digest

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Discovery continues to shore up its golf portfolio, this time announcing the acquisition of Golf Digest from Conde Nast. The deal, which the New York Times says was valued at $35 million, will now see Discovery weave Golf Digest’s business into its GolfTV streaming-video division with Discovery stating that they will retain Golf Digest’s editorial […]

MassMutual hits the ice

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Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and the NHL announced a multiyear partnership, naming MassMutual the Official Life Insurance and Retirement Planning Partner of the NHL. To launch the partnership, the NHL and MassMutual unveiled today the NHL Most Valuable Hockey Mom presented by MassMutual campaign. “MassMutual and the NHL share a common value around those […]

NBC orders The Kenan Show

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NBC is keeping Saturday Night Live’s longest-running cast member, Kenan Thompson, busy. The net ordered The Kenan Show, a family comedy produced by Universal Television in association with Broadway Video, to series. Thompson, who is expected to stick with SNL for season 45 next fall, is also set to serve as a judge in NBC […]

ABC orders two more rounds of Grey’s Anatomy

ABC renewed Shondaland dramas Grey’s Anatomy for seasons 16 and 17, How Get Away With Murder for a sixth run, and Station 19 for a third. EP and showrunner Krista Vernoff will helm Grey’s and Station19, “giving fans two hours of feels on Thursdays and providing a seamless crossover narrative on both series,” said the […]

Feld’s Monster year

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Coming off back-to-back mega weekends that included both the Monster Energy Supercross Finals in Las Vegas two weekends ago and the Monster Jam World Finals XX out of Orlando this past week, Feld Entertainment continues to build audiences for its “live touring family entertainment experiences “ that bring people together and uplift the human spirit […]

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