The streaming news network from CBS that launched in November last year, CBSN, is now available to iOS device owners. Through the updated CBS News app, users can access CBSN, including features such as “Quick Read” article previews, expanded video-on-demand offerings from CBS News programs, full-screen photo galleries and more. CBSN is available on Apple […]
ESPN and Tennis Channel are serving up the Australian Open starting this weekend. ESPN’s coverage begins Sunday at 7p, with over 100 live hours on deck on TV and WatchESPN and 800 hours slated from a record 13 courts on ESPN3. ESPN’s coverage wraps up with the women’s and men’s championships live on ESPN at […]
The V Foundation for Cancer Research and family members representing Stuart Scott are launching a new cancer research fund honoring the memory of Stuart Scott. The Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund is designed to help continue Stuart’s fight against cancer and “assist some of the most vulnerable and disproportionately impacted communities battling this horrible […]
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The CW got a running start for 2015-16, issuing early renewals for all eight of its scripted fall series. Arrow, The Flash, Jane the Virgin, Reign, Supernatural, The 100, The Vampire Diaries and The Originals “have helped define what the CW is today,” said CW president Mark Pedowitz. “By picking up these shows now, our […]
Guess no one called Walter White. “We want this show to stand on its own,” said Peter Gould, exec producer of AMC’s upcoming Breaking Bad spinoff, Better Call Saul!, at TCA. “Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will not appear in season one.” Added Jonathan Banks, who plays Mike Ehrmantraut, “Their ghosts are there. But this […]
To ramp up video streaming quality, Facebook bought QuickFire Networks on Friday. QFN is a technology that reduces the necessary bandwidth to view video online without affecting its quality. FB recently announced that video posts on the platform have increased 75 percent in the last year, and reach one billion video viewers per day around […]
As previously reported, Twitter will launch its new video feature in the coming weeks, but the social network unveiled more details at the CES convention. Highlights include: – Autoplay will look like Vine: the feature will allow marketers to create six-second video previews to entice users to click. However, marketers will have the choice to […]
As Golf Channel prepares to hit 20 years on Jan. 17, the network is hitting 2015 on a four-year ratings run, and has drawn the most-affluent audience in all of television for both total day and primetime in 2014, according to Nielsen. Now, as the networks prepares for its third decade, Cynopsis Sports spoke with […]
Lots of headlines over the weekend with the news that Lenny Kravitz would be joining Katy Perry when she headlines the Pepsi Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show on NBC on Feb. 1. The news came following Perry’s interview during NBC’s broadcast of the AFC Divisional Playoff game with the full interview with NBC’s Willie Geist […]