Tensions had been brewing for years inside Clare Locke, a top defamation law firm. Then came the biggest defamation case of them all.
Tensions had been brewing for years inside Clare Locke, a top defamation law firm. Then came the biggest defamation case of them all.
Two anchor jobs are being eliminated at WCPO, as the Scripps ABC affiliate in Cincinnati shifts priorities to invest in five additional reporters. Exactly who will be leaving and when has not been determined. "We are making changes to staffing so we can build the largest reporting staff of any newsroom in Cincinnati," said Jeff Brogan, WCPO GM.
LinkedIn and two advertisers have agreed to settle a long-running battle over the social media platform's allegedly inflated ad metrics, according to papers filed Monday with a federal appellate court. Settlement terms have not been disclosed. The move likely brings an end to a dispute dating to 2020, when the tech company TopDevz and recruiting platform Noirefy alleged in a class-action complaint that LinkedIn's erroneous metrics allowed it to charge inflated prices for ads.
Today’s episode of ABC‘s Tamron Hall show was scotched after a grease fire in an on-set kitchen caused a brief evacuation of the Upper West Side ABC studio where Hall tapes the show. A rerun of the Monday eclipse episode was aired instead, but in a brief live appearance ahead of the episode Hall stood on the empty, mostly evacuated set and explained what happened.
In fending off Nelson Peltz (and Ike Perlmutter) during a $40 million proxy battle, the CEO gets to keep his board seats and leeway to take part in succession planning — again.
Major TV station owners are seeking new federal rules that they say will bridge the gap between old video providers and new online services streamed on phones, tablets and connected TVs. Pushing for the new rules are the independent network affiliates of the ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox networks, a group that consists of about 600 TV stations that want the FCC to put at the top of its agenda the equal-treatment policies that have been stalled for about a decade.
Beeper, the app that brought iPhone messaging features to Android smartphones, has been acquired by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, to support the development of a single service for sending and receiving chats from WhatsApp, Signal, LinkedIn and others. The deal is valued at about $125 million.
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors, is pushing for legislation that would require detailed consent for the use of “digital replicas.” In a separate bill, the union also wants to prevent studios from putting dead performers in movies without the consent of their heirs. Underscoring the contentiousness around AI, the Motion Picture Association has come out against the digital replicas bill.
Mahtani, a CNN veteran, will be tasked with figuring out how to present CBS News Confirmed investigations for a TV audience.
Innovid said it launched Harmony Direct, the first in a series of products aimed at cleaning up the connected TV advertising supply path. Roku and digital company PMG are among the first to use Harmony Direct. Harmony is designed to send more advertiser dollars toward media, increasing revenue opportunities for publishers and creating a more sustainable, transparent system for advertisers, Innovid said.
The women's NCAA championship game drew a bigger television audience than the men's title game for the first time, with an average of 18.9 million viewers watching undefeated South Carolina beat Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark, according to ratings released Tuesday. The Sunday afternoon game on ABC and ESPN outdrew Monday's men's final between UConn and Purdue by four million. The Huskies' 75-60 victory averaged 14.82 million on TBS and TNT. The audience for the women's game — in which the Gamecocks won their fourth national title and denied Clark's Hawkeyes their first — peaked at 24.1 million during the final 15 minutes.
Richard Leibner, a pioneering talent agent who represented such notable broadcast news journalists as Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Andy Rooney, Norah O’Donnell, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer and Fareed Zakaria, died Tuesday.
A change is coming at the helm of Chicago Med: after nine seasons, co-showrunners Diane Frolov and Andy Schneider will step down at the end of the season. The duo led the Dick Wolf series to nine successful seasons on NBC. The series has continually won its 8 p.m. Wednesday time period by averaging more than 10.5 million viewers.
NCIS has been a top 20 series for 18 of its 20 full seasons and has ranked as the No. 1 drama for the last five consecutive seasons – and 13 of the last 14. Now in its 21st season, NCIS is the No. 2 entertainment program this season, trailing only Tracker on CBS. The renewal brings NCIS through its 22nd season. The Neighborhood is averaging 5.83 million viewers season to date and is TV’s third-ranked comedy. This renewal brings the sitcom through its seventh season.
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include 13 openings in news, sales, digital and engineering.
Social media stars who’ve parlayed content niches into massive, cross-platform audiences will share their unique approaches to content creation in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference at the NAB Show on April 14. Register here.
Morris Multimedia’s WWAY Wilmington secured Center for Quality Care as an interactive sponsor for its Weather Photo of the Day user-generated content (UGC) segment. Sponsored UGC segments can be a great source of revenue for local broadcasters and an excellent opportunity for brands looking to drive instant leads and sales.
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