Comcast added 18 live channels to its outside-the-home streaming Xfinity TV Go app and site. The service now includes TBS, TNT, truTV, USA Network, Bravo, E!, Syfy, mun2, Oxygen, Sprout, A&E, History, Food Network, Cooking Channel, DIY Network, HGTV, Travel Channel and Starz. The additions mean a total of 53 live channels are now offered […]
Conde Nast Entertainment rolled out its first digital sports channel, Golf Digest. Available on its site and on YouTube, GD will include The Hot List equipment review, Break Bad Scores, a how-to show from golf instructors called Nerve Wrackers and #GolfSecrets with Ben Crane hosted by the PGA golfer and YT comedian. CNE […]
College basketball fans continue to warm up to the First Four, as truTV delivered the highest-rated and most-viewed NCAA First Four opening night ever since the current format began in 2011. The NC State/Xavier matchup drew an average of 1.7 million total viewers and a 1.1 household score to rank as the most-viewed and highest-rated […]
Cynopsis Sports is proud to announce that NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France has been named the recipient of the Vision Award at this year’s Cynopsis Sports Media Awards. The Vision Award recognizes a top sports executive who demonstrates innovation and leadership in the media and sponsorship space of the industry, with USOC CEO Steve […]
Last week CynKids reported on Birds Eye’s new integrated sponsorship deal with Disney. Here’s a look at the partnership from the brand perspective, courtesy of Mike Barkley, SVP of Birds Eye. What is Birds Eye hoping to get out of the new sponsorship arrangement with Disney? We have similar aspirations regarding healthy eating, and […]
It’s a jungle out there. Cupcake Digital has a global deal with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products to bring Blu and Jewel, the stars of the upcoming Rio 2 film and its 2011 predecessor Rio to mobile devices with new interactive storybooks and activity apps. The Rio storybook app debuts today, with the Rio 2 […]
Craig Ferguson (The Late Late Show) and Drew Carey (The Price Is Right) are trading places on April Fool’s Day. Carey will host the CBS late night talker on Tuesday, April 1 at 12:37a, and Ferguson will host the net’s 11a game show. Ferguson’s robot skeleton sidekick and pantomime horse will lend an assist as […]
Christian Slater (Mind Games) and Fred Armisen (Portlandia) lend their voices to FX animated series Archer on Monday, March 24 at 10p. Slater plays a drug smuggler, and Armisen is the dictator of a Central American nation.
Google is looking for a head start on Apple, announcing its first operating system for wearable tech yesterday, called the Android Wear. The Verge reports Google is working with current Android partners like HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Asus and LG, which will be the first to ship the smartwatch including the OS. Android Wear will […]
Google and Viacom found a compromise to end its long-running copyright lawsuit from 2007 over TV show clips posted during YouTube’s early days. Recode reports no money was exchanged, although at one point Viacom wanted $1 billion in damages from Google. The concluding statement only cited the settlement, “reflects the growing collaborative dialogue between […]