HBO’s a la carte streaming service will exclusively premiere on Apple devices as of April 12 for $14.99 a month. Announced at an Apple event in San Francisco yesterday, HBO Now will offer more than 2,000 titles for Apple iPhone, iPad, Apple TV as well as via HBONow.com. “With HBO Now, you will have […]
Nielsen’s study of Twitter activity around live prime-time broadcasts and cable TV revealed that social media is an indicator for general audience engagement. Nielsen’s Neuro division specifically noted that changes in Twitter TV activity correlate to emotion, memory, and attention 79.5 percent of the time.
The NFL is handing the keys to MP & Silva, locking in the agency to represent the league in 42 territories across Europe. The deal will see the company distribute television and select digital rights for the 2015 – 2019 NFL seasons for pre-season and regular season games, all playoff games, Pro Bowl, as well […]
FOX Sports and Pam Oliver are in for two more years. Sports Illustrated writes that the company asked her to return to the company’s fold following her shift last season that moved her away from top broadcast team Joe Buck and Troy Aikman and begin work with Kevin Burkhardt and John Lynch. Erin Andrews took […]
NBC pulled low-rated Allegiance from its Thursday sked, and moved The Slap from 8p to 10p. Leading into The Blacklist at 9p will be Blacklist-themed Dateline specials. Allegiance and The Slap scored .8 among A18-49 on Thursday; sandwiched in between, once-mighty The Blacklist drew 1.7 in the demo.
The peacock net also announced summer premiere dates for new Charles Manson drama Aquarius, launching Thursday, May 28 at 9p and settling into its regular Thursday slot on June 4; competition series American Ninja Warrior and America’s Got Talent, back Monday, May 25 and Tuesday, May 26, respectively, at 8p, and drama Hannibal, starting season […]
YouTube’s “Superwoman,” otherwise known as the largest video site from Lilly Singh, will join forces with Collective Digital Studio on a series that’s a spy/ comedy/beauty mash-up. Called Lana Steele. Make-up Spy, Singh will play a secret agent who goes undercover using “the art of make-up” over a span of 12 scripted episodes. Eps will […]
Amazon is ramping up its mobile gaming division, rolling out recent acquisitions and multiple original games on Apple devices. For the first time, four different Amazon Game Studios titles will come to the iOS world, including horror game Lost Within, sci-fi adventure Tales From Deep Space, haunted adventure Til Morning’s Light and arcade game To-Fu […]
With last week’s announcement that the PGA TOUR would be launching its new iPad app, digital consulting firm Omnigon continues to bolster its slate of projects in the sports space. The company, along with POSSIBLE Mobile, unleashed the platform with features that include the use of real-time predictive statistics, both for individual players and the […]
With the full weight of its parent company behind it, NBC Sports’ inaugural debut of the PBC on NBC notched a 2.53/5 in early Nielsen numbers, according to NBC. That ranked as the highest-rated sporting event from 9-11p (with a 2.67) on Saturday and led the network to a broadcast primetime victory among Adults 18-49. […]