After eight and a half years as SVP drama series at HBO, Nora Skinner is going to Netflix where she will be VP in the streamer’s drama series team. Based at Netflix’s Los Angeles headquarters, Skinner, a former film producer and executive, will start at the end of May, reporting to Jinny Howe, Netflix’s VP of drama series.
In some cases, hackers purchased streaming subscriptions with the compromised logins.
By embracing live sports and blending its creator content and TV offerings, the platform is revolutionizing the beleaguered pay TV space.
BT Group and Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, announced today that they are teaming up on […]
A handful of digital start-ups are finding success — so far, at least — by learning lessons from their troubled predecessors.
Deadspin has laid off its existing staff after G/O Media agreed to sell the sports news site to European startup Lineup Publishing. G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller revealed the update in a company-wide email on Monday.
Stingray, a provider of music and video content distribution, business services and advertising solutions, has launched new channels on Samsung TV Plus, Samsung’s 100% free ad-supported streaming TV and video-on-demand […]
Reddit Inc. and its investors disclosed further details of what is set to be one of the year’s biggest initial public offerings in which they are seeking to raise as much as $748 million. The social media platform said in a filing Monday that it and its investors are planning to sell 22 million shares for $31 to $34 each. About 15.3 million those shares will be sold by the company and the rest by investors and Reddit employees.
Xfinity Odds Zone and new interactive features to debut with The Players Championship.
The first 19 seasons of ABC’s venerable medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, all 420 episodes, are now available on Hulu ahead of the Season 20 premiere on ABC.
WWE, a sports entertainment company that is part of TKO Group, is also among the top 10 most subscribed YouTube channels globally, with no professional sports leagues currently in that mix. Others in the top 10 include Indian record label and film production company T-Series, Sony Entertainment Television and social media personalities MrBeast and PewDiePie.
The e-commerce platform’s parent company spent nearly $2 billion at Meta last year and it was a top advertiser at Google.
The week of the Super Bowl was a relatively light one for streaming in the United States — but that allowed a couple of shows to score solid positions in the top 10 despite relatively modest viewing times. Netflix’s romance One Day, which premiered Feb. 8, was one of them — finishing fifth among original shows despite only gathering 296 million minutes of viewing in the U.S. for the week of Feb. 5-11. In the previous five weeks, the show in that slot had averaged 555 million minutes of watch time. Paramount+’s Halo also made its first appearance in the top 10, finishing fourth among originals with 354 million minutes as it opened its second season.
A mix of live sports, original sports programming and ancillary sports content will start appearing on TruTV next Monday, March 11, under the banner TNT Sports on TruTV. The block will start at 6 p.m. ET and run through latenight. The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, aka March Madness, gets under way the following week. WBD, which shares in March Madness rights with Paramount, often makes use of TruTV as a home for early-round tournament games.
The July bout between Tyson, the former world champion, and Paul, the influencer turned boxer, is part of Netflix’s push into “sports-adjacent” live events.
The fake news organizations, experts say, represent a technological leap in the Kremlin’s efforts to spread false and misleading narratives.
NBC News Now — which is a free streaming service distributed across more than 20 platforms — serves as a seamless extension of NBC’s linear programming, and that linear-to-streaming symbiosis is believed to be the key to NBC News’ future. “The tradition of providing high-quality, free content is in the DNA of NBC and so it’s the future and the past, merged together,” says Janelle Rodriguez EVP of programming. “We’re using the same studios, control rooms, and are treating it like one big production.”
Charter Communications and the Walt Disney Co. today announced ESPN+ is now available to Spectrum TV Select Plus customers at no additional cost, as the two companies’ distribution agreement from […]
Legislation that would force China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok or risk a ban in the U.S. is expected to clear a key committee this week, setting up a future House floor vote.
A Make It-branded TV series and an online course are among the projects in the works.
Netflix faced a formidable challenge to its streaming dominance during the streaming wars. But the company has bounced back in a big way with its stock up nearly 90% in the last year.
The Federal Trade Commission says it considers web browsing data sensitive, even when stripped of names, Social Security numbers and other comparable information traditionally considered “personally identifiable.” “Browsing and location data are sensitive. Full stop,” the FTC said in a post discussing recent privacy complaints it brought against Avast (which sold users’ web browsing data) as well as two location data brokers (Outlogic and InMarket Media).
The event and publishing executive says she’s next looking for “a new opportunity with a global scope.”
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads went dark Tuesday morning, leaving users unable to load and access the apps. The tracking website Down Detector showed outages on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger on Tuesday with worldwide outages identified. Some users also experienced issues logging in to their Meta Quest headsets. Meta initially acknowledged the issue on its status page with a message timestamped 10:17AM ET: “We are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our engineering teams are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.”
Graham Media’s Detroit NBC affiliate WDIV and the Michigan Chronicle announced a new media partnership aimed at elevating local news coverage in the Metro Detroit region. The station said “this collaboration marks a significant step towards bolstering community engagement, fostering inclusivity, and enriching the depth of coverage on issues vital to Detroit and the state of Michigan.”
In the span of a decade, Netflix has helped decimate linear TV, not only gobbling up series that once would have anchored a network lineup but also taking discarded network series — from You to Manifest— and making them hits. That’s left traditional TV clinging to live sports like a life raft: 98 of last year’s top-100 broadcasts were sports (overwhelmingly, NFL). Now Netflix appears to be coming for them, too.