Longtime 60 Minutes producer Jeff Fager is stepping down as chairman of CBS News. Fager will return to the newsmagazine, with a contract through 2019. “When Leslie Moonves asked me to take the job of chairman, we agreed that when the time was right I would be able to return to 60 Minutes full-time,” said […]
Unruly named this year’s Top 20 Global Social Video Ads Chart, with one-fifth listed coming from World Cup sponsors or created with the theme of the event. The top 20 countdown include: 20. KLM: Lost And Found Service – 670,401 shares 19. P&G: Pick Them Back Up – 688,364 shares 18. BBC: God Only Knows […]
Longmire, cancelled by A&E in August, will live again on Netflix. Season four of the Warner Horizon Television production is set to stream in 2015. The crime thriller averaged 5.6 million viewers for season three, but skewed older – not a problem for subscription-based Netflix.
Despite previous reports, Facebook is not listed as a presenter on the preliminary schedule for the 2015 Digital Content NewFronts this year. The IAB released the program for the NewFronts yesterday, a showcase similar to the annual TV Upfronts, to take place between April 27 and May 6, 2015. Newcomers include Discovery Digital Networks and […]
ESPN laid out plans for its eighth consecutive year Jimmy V Week for Cancer Research, which will launch on Wednesday, Dec. 3, across all domestic ESPN platforms to drive awareness of and donations to The V Foundation for Cancer Research. Last year, Jimmy V Week raised a record $1.8 million, bringing the seven-year total of […]
Sports fans with Dish Network are able to exhale a sigh of relief, for now, after CBS and Dish agreed to a temporary extension to continue programming amid a rough carriage fee dispute that threatens to yank SEC and NFL games from their channels. The companies avoided a potential blackout of local CBS stations in […]
Amid growing sexual assault allegations, Netflix and NBC both scrapped plans for projects with Bill Cosby. First Netflix placed the premiere of stand-up comedy special Bill Cosby 77, scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving, on hold, then NBC revealed it was not proceeding with a family comedy starring the performer, announced in January, that was […]
Alec Baldwin has some words of advice when it comes to love, and he’s dishing it in the back of New York City cabs in his new Above Average series Alec Balwin’s Love Ride. The series follow’s the actor has he picks up unsuspecting couples, along with his famous friends, to learn their stories and […]
As the December 5 expiration of its carriage agreement loomed, Turner launched a marketing campaign alerting Dish subscribers that the satellite TV provider could soon lose TNT and TBS. Turner’s other eight networks, including CNN, Adult Swim and Cartoon Network, went dark in October. “Efforts in recent weeks to restore the Turner networks to Dish […]
Mystery no more: Nielsen will begin measuring subscription web streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Price, according to the Wall Street Journal. Both platforms have kept ratings under wraps, but Nielsen plans to identify viewership, but will not include streaming on mobile devices at first. The data will be provided to clients, media companies like […]
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