Turner Sports is upping its game with the 64th annual NBA All-Star Game this week, announcing that Sunday’s event will, for the first time, be simulcast on TNT and TBS beginning at 8p. Overall, the company will dedicate more than 26 hours toward NBA All-Star 2015 in New York from Feb. 12-15. Marv Albert calls […]
Rosie Perez is back in her co-host seat, but co-exec producer Brian Balthazar is putting The View behind him just six months into the job. One day after Perez, rumored to be out at the ABC morning talker, returned from a pre-planned hiatus, came word that Balthazar had decided to return to HGTV. The former […]
Bravo gave the green light for a sophomore season of its first scripted series, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, from Universal Cable Productions. The January 27 telecast earned a series high1.5 million total viewers, 983,000 A25-54 and 872,000 A18-49 in Live+3.
Multi-channel network Fullscreen is moving further into branded programming with a new content division devoted specifically to sponsored entertainment. To lead the new group, FS hired Billy Parks, credited with AT+T Snapchat series SnapperHero, and Bryan Thoesen, former Director and Head of Brand Content at Hulu.
National Geographic and PBS veterans Greg Diefenbach and Thomas Lucas (now both with Alliant Content) announced a new free web streaming service specifically for documentaries called XiveTV. The new digital video network will offer long-form documentaries and will live on Hulu, Amazon, and YouTube as well as on the XiveTV iOS and Android apps. Alliant […]
FOX Sports unveiled its programming plans for its first year as the USGA’s principal domestic media partner, lining up more than 300 hours of coverage spanning eight championships. Coverage begins in May with the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship May 5-6 from The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Overall, the company slated around 320 hours of […]
It would seem that ESPN is beefing up its hockey programming. TSN reports that ESPN has won the bidding to carry the World Cup of Hockey in 2016, beating out NHL partner NBC Sports as well as FOX. The games will be played at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto with an eight-team field. ESPN […]
Kevin Reilly’s making changes at the top. The new president of TBS and TNT and chief creative officer of Turner Entertainment is splitting the networks’ original programming team into two units: Sarah Aubrey has been tapped to serve as EVP of original programming for TNT, while Brett Weitz was promoted to EVP of original programming […]
Good boy! Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl was the top cable telecast across the day on Super Bowl Sunday (excluding sports) in key demos, including P2+ (2.8 million), HH (1.6 million) P25-54 (1 million) and W25-54 (659,000). The net ranked second in all of television among P25-54, after NBC, during its 3-5p premiere.
Endemol Beyond, which signed a development deal with YouTube beauty guru Michelle Phan last May, will debut a new show on her YT channel on Feb. 6. Called Skinside Out, the series focuses on recipes and food that promote skin health. Eps will also premiere on BeyondLifestyle on Feb. 12. Additionally, Endemol has brought Jersey […]
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