Sports Illustrated's owners say that they have partnered with Minute Media to be the new publisher of the venerable brand’s editorial operations. Authentic Brands Group, which owns SI, announced the partnership with Minute Media today, after months of uncertainty over the future of the magazine. The print edition will continue, as Minute Media also oversees digital operations of the SI portfolio.
"Know My Neighborhood" airs live from different neighborhoods once a month during KSAT’s hour-long 6 p.m. newscast. The initiative started in October 2023.
DirecTV said it would be allowing customers to opt out of receiving their local TV stations, and pay a lower monthly rate in the bargain. Customers who opt out of receiving local stations directly through DirecTV will receive discounts of $12 a month or $140 a year.
NBC is partnering with AMC to bring select live coverage of the Paris Olympics to 160 theater locations, offering a unique communal viewing experience. Tickets for the screenings, taking place July 27-Aug. 11, will be available through AMC and Fandango.
The failure of Hollywood studios to strike a timely deal with writers and actors last summer meant the traditional fall TV season was canceled in 2023. But while all of the Big Four broadcasters experienced some Nielsen pain as a result, none took a bigger hit than CBS. George Cheeks, the president and CEO of CBS and chief content officer for news and sports at Paramount+, does not attempt to sugarcoat his network’s fourth-quarter struggle.
The justices must distinguish between persuading social media sites to take down posts, which is permitted, and coercing them, which violates the First Amendment.
The longtime corporate agitator feels misunderstood. Maybe his fight with Disney could change that.
Cable TV’s collapse is forcing the Disney property out of its comfort zone, from hiring risky talent to a streaming gambit that ticked off the NFL.
Legal battle would force courts to weigh the government’s national security objectives against the First Amendment rights of TikTok and its users.
Winners for this year’s NAACP Image Awards — which celebrate the accomplishments of people of color in the fields of television, music, literature and film — were announced daily this week, culminating in the live telecast that aired Saturday night on CBS and BET.
CBS’s Blue Bloods was Friday’s most-watched show with 5.2 million viewers, while Fox’s Friday Night SmackDown coverage led the night in the coveted 18-49 demo.
The brackets for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament — aka “March Madness” — were revealed Sunday, bringing joy and tears in equal amounts to teams selected and shunned. The defending champions from 2023, the UConn Huskies, were announced as the No. 1 overall seed playing out of the East region.
The state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida will be raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from online sports betting this decade, thanks to a compact between the tribe and Gov. Ron DeSantis that gave the tribe exclusive rights to run sports wagers as well as casino gambling on its reservations. But are these online wagers on the outcome of sporting events legally on tribal land, when really only the computer servers are located there, accepting bets made using mobile phones and computers from anywhere in Florida? Pictured: The guitar shaped hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla. (Brynn Anderson/AP)
Veteran New York City broadcast news anchor Bill Jorgensen, remembered for his show’s nightly admonishment, “It’s 10 o’clock — do you know where your children are?” died on Wednesday at age 96. Jorgensen was the founding anchor of the Ten O’Clock News on WNEW New York (Fox 5), which he hosted for over 12 years. He was recruited from Cleveland’s KYW-TV in 1967 to fill the slot. He signed off nightly with “Thanking you for your time this time, until next time.”
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a media engineer supervisor, a national advertising sales account executive and a broadcast maintenance technician.
Top news and content executives from CBS News and Stations, Cox Media Group, NBCUniversal Local and CBC News share creative alternatives to the newscast for presenting topical content in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference at the NAB Show on April 14. Register here.
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