Disney’s multi-channel network Maker Studios signed on YouTube musician Lindsay Stirling – a web celeb with 5.2 million subscribers on her main channel and 337,000 subs on her behind-the-scenes channel. Maker will manage her channels and advertising along with her social platforms. Previously, Stirling worked with MCN Fullscreen. Stirling released her first album in 2012, […]
YouTube darlings Grace Helbig and Mamrie Hart’s summer trip web series, HeyUSA, will premiere on Conde Nast Entertainment’s The Scene. The producer of the show, Astronauts Wanted, released footage and bloopers from HeyUSA to drum up excitement, which did the trick – its social content reeled in more than six million views on YT and […]
College football is in the air, and the announcement between ESPN and the Mid-American Conference can be a game-changer for those schools involved. The deal between the two companies is for an extension of their exclusive rights agreement that will deliver record coverage of the conference across multiple ESPN platforms through 2026-27. Highlights of the […]
Monday night’s ESPN Monday Night Football preseason telecast pitting the Browns/Redskins scored a 4.5 household US rating and 6,898,000 viewers, according to Nielsen. The telecast is the highest-rated and most-viewed NFL preseason game on ESPN in five years. In Cleveland, the game delivered a 7.3 rating on ESPN and a 21.1 rating on WKYC-NBC, for […]
Big things are happening at Fuhu. The creator of the nabi tablet is growing the line this fall with the nabi Big Tab HD 20-inch and nabi Big Tab HD 24-inch tablets, retailing at $449 and $549, respectively. The Android tablets, the market’s largest to date, were designed with collaboration and socialized learning in mind, […]
Nickelodeon’s first crack at taking pitches at San Diego Comic-Con last month has yielded a green light for animated shorts series Cupcakery of Doom, created by Trevor Reece of Eureka, Calif., a writer for The Press Democrat newspaper’s comics blog. Nick took more than 100 pitches during the event, ultimately deciding on this comedic story […]
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Elizabeth Vargas has checked herself back into a recovery center, the 20/20 co-anchor revealed in a statement. “As so many other recovering alcoholics know, overcoming the disease can be a long and incredibly difficult process,” said Vargas, who entered a treatment facility in 2013. “I feel I have let myself, my co-workers and most importantly […]
It will be hard to miss NBC’s The Blacklist in the coming weeks. Images of star James Spader, in character as criminal mastermind Red Reddington, will stare out from mock covers on the back of 10 magazines (Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and the New Yorker among them), and on the front cover of Playboy. Also […]
The PGA Tour wants to put a younger face to the sport with help from a new web series pairing professional golfers with YouTube celebs. The show, Clubbed (wt), will be a similar format to Dancing With The Stars, and partner six pros with 12 web stars to mentor and compete in golf games. “PGA […]