The StreamSaver bundle will be available to Xfinity customers starting next week.
Matt Katrosar is named SVP of global ad sales and strategy. It also expands its global channels division, hiring Keith Gross, James Meyer and Liat Abada. L-r: Katrosar, Goss, Meyer and Abada.
The weekly newsletter, social/digital initiative and syndicated broadcast TV component plans to highlight the power of swing state voters in the presidential election.
BRAND CONNECTIONS
Along with big stars, programmers promise that data and tech will deliver big results.
CBS’ CSI: Vegas hit the jackpot while getting ushered out of the casino by security. With its unplanned series finale on Sunday night, the procedural rose 16% in audience to deliver a series high of 4.8 million total viewers.
NBC's WMAQ and WSNS Chicago, are airing a three-part series tonight through Wednesday night at 10, that reveals the results of a six-month investigation that examined every sexual assault case, more than 21,000, reported to the Chicago Police Dept. over the last six years.
AI & THE MEDIA
Colorado Governor Signs Sweeping AI Regulation Bill
Colorado will require developers of artificial intelligence (AI) to avoid discrimination in high-risk systems as part of a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Jared Polis (D). The first-in-the-nation law adds requirements for developers of “high-risk” AI systems to “use reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination.”
TVN’S MEDIA JOBS
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a vice president and general manager. Existing jobs include openings for a vice president and general manager, a lifestyle show producer, director of student media, a market manager and a digital platform specialist.
Technology leaders from NBC Regional Sports Networks, Sinclair, Gray Television, Hearst Television and Fox Television Stations discuss the benefits and challenges of remote production in an IP environment in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch webinar on July 16 at 1 p.m. ET. Register here.