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Good news for Howard Stern fans. The SiriusXM radio host is heading back to America’s Got Talent when it returns for its 10th season on NBC. In a statement posted on the show’s Facebook Page, Stern said, “I decided that a life without AGT is not worth living. America needs a caring, compassionate and wise […]
FXX has ordered a seventh and final season of The League. Nick Grad and Eric Schrier, Presidents of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions, announced the news, noting that the comedy series will return with its last 13 episodes in the fall of 2015. “Our gang can burn a beach house like Calvin Johnson […]
Barry Diller’s IAC is putting its majority stake in CollegeHumor up for sale. Fortune reports that IAC is looking to sell for $100 million, after investing $20 million in the site in 2006. Other comedy destinations, such as Funny or Die and The Onion, are also on the market, with FOD asking between $100-$300 million […]
“Should advertisers be investing in a full array of new digital media options? Absolutely,” CBS’ Chief Research Officer David Poltrack said at UBS’ 42nd Annual Global and Media Communications Conference yesterday. “Should they be funding these investments from their TV advertising budgets? Absolutely not.” Poltrack suggested that while TV ad spend will fall flat in […]
Sports social media intelligence platform MVPIndex released its awards for The Best of the Best in Social Media at the Cynopsis Sports Social Media Summit in New York City Monday. Neymar, with over 50 million page likes, won Most Engaging Facebook presence, The Los Angeles Lakers’ Jeremy Lin took the honors of the highest rated […]
Sunday’s MLS Cup overtime thriller between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the New England Revolution on ESPN had a 0.6 overnight rating, up slightly from a 0.5 last year even though the match went against the NFL this year.
After pulling its programming from Dish Network on Friday, CBS finally came to a multi-year retransmission deal with the satellite TV company, ending a courtroom battle over Dish’s ad-skipping DVR service AutoHop. Dish has agreed to disable AutoHop within the first week of a CBS show airing. The agreement includes CBS Sports Network and other […]
President Barack Obama sat down with BET Networks for an exclusive interview at the White House to discuss the recent unrest in America. BET’s 106 & Park airs a portion of the interview on Monday, December 8 at 5p. The full in-depth interview airs immediately following at 6p on BET News Presents: A Conversation with […]
Andy Samberg’s Lonely Island production venture announced the first three shows for its Party Over Here initiative to develop digital content that will potentially find a home on Fox and FX linear platforms. Primarily distributed on OTT services such as Hulu and Roku will be sci-fi comedy The Tyler Zone, Topics With Andre Hyland and […]