Can diversifying your sports coverage help you score with new audiences? One TV station group, Tegna, is capitalizing on the excitement generated by college sports by introducing a new podcast that will both expand the company’s digital footprint and promote diversity.
Outer Banks notched a repeat win in Nielsen’s U.S. streaming rankings for the week of August 9 to 15, though viewership dropped by about half in its second full week on Netflix. The 20 episodes of the mystery drama collected 1.16 billion total minutes of viewing, down from 2.1 billion in the previous week. The No. 2 finisher once again was All American, whose Netflix run began just after its third season had its linear finale on The CW. It pulled in 883 million minutes.
The company has teamed up with Ray-Ban to create glasses that can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play podcasts.
Judge Judy Sheindlin announced today the start date and name of her new show, Judy Justice, which will be available weekdays on IMDb TV, a free streaming service offered by Amazon.
CNBC said today that Jim Cramer has signed a multi-platform deal with the network that brings all of his media assets into the CNBC portfolio. In addition to his on-air duties for Mad Money w/Jim Cramer (M-F, 6 p.m. ET) and Squawk on the Street (M-F, 9-11 a.m. […]
Blackbird plc, the developer and seller of the cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, said today that Blackbird is now being used by 75 U.S. TV stations for digital news production […]
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The new app offers on-demand programming from the Quest diginet’s catalog of factual entertainment, science, history and engineering programs, as well as adventure-reality series.
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday unsealed a host of previously secret material involving Facebook, ranging from information about the company’s monthly users to details about prior acquisitions. Among other newly unsealed allegations, the FTC says more than 200 million people in the U.S. visited Facebook in every month of 2020, while more than 138 million in the country visited Instagram, according to Comscore data.
The Roku Channel and Tubi, two of the biggest free, ad-supported television services (FAST) in the U.S., keep adding original content to stand out in the crowd. The Roku Channel is snatching up the recently canceled NBC comedy Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist for a new holiday special, which will be first original feature-length film. At the same time, Tubi, the ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox, announced that it will debut Corrective Measures, a new original film starring Bruce Willis and Michael Rooker, in spring 2022.
AccuWeather Now, the new video streaming product from AccuWeather, today announced it is joining Xumo’s growing roster of more than 200 channels, meeting an increasing demand for streaming weather and […]
Disney is raising prices on Hulu’s baseline video-on-demand streaming packages next month, as the Mouse House seeks to push customers toward the three-way Disney Bundle and Hulu’s live TV packages.
The conglomerate burned tons of promotional jet fuel, only to drive a ratings hit for Netflix and wind up with nothing for itself.
The company promotes Biancuzzo from EVP and group head to lead the new business unit that will develop and produce original programming for distribution to television stations, broadcast and cable networks and streaming services.
Wurl today appointed Ingrid Mariotti to the newly created role of director of business development, streamers. She is charged with optimizing current partnerships with video streaming platforms, as well as […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook has apologized for putting a “primates” label on a video of Black men, according to a report in the New York Times. The newspaper said the video […]
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New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in sales, news, engineering, social/digital, and executive management.
The company faces a double whammy: challenges in its legacy products and customers looking for alternative ways to measure streaming viewership.
Lawmakers in Texas have passed a bill that would prohibit Facebook, Twitter, Google and other large social media companies from blocking, demoting or demonetizing posts based on political viewpoint. Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign the measure, which will almost certainly face a legal challenge.
A group of 34 trade groups, labor unions and consumer activist organizations jointly sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission last week, asking it to block the Amazon’s proposed $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM. “We urge the FTC to block Amazon’s purchase of MGM Studios in order to slow Amazon’s growing dominance,” said the groups, which included The Writers Guild of America West, the Center for Popular Democracy Action and Public Citizen.
The Dish Network vMVPD launches an exclusive linear channel full of the bro-culture-fueled sports blogs hot takes and betting predictions.
The company, under pressure from app developers and regulators, is making concessions while protecting lucrative parts of its App Store.
Outer Banks topped the Nielsen U.S. streaming chart for the week of Aug. 2-8 with nearly twice the viewing of its closest competitor. The Netflix original was in its first full week of streaming after its second season hit Netflix in late-July. It delivered 2.1 billion minutes of viewing across its 20 episodes. It joins an elite club of shows north of the 2 billion mark in a single week since Nielsen began reporting streaming numbers in mid-2020.
The owners of the country’s major broadcast TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — had sued Locast in 2019, saying Locast violated their copyrights, and asked for the service to be shut down. After a decision against it, Locast suspended operations on Thursday.
