Ahead of the 2019 launch of Disney’s Netflix competitor, the company’s digital arm will launch a free, over-the-top video app aimed at millennials sometime this summer. The ad-supported app comes from Disney’s editorial brand, Oh My Disney, and will feature Disney social content and other short-form video programming from Oh My Disney as well as Disney Digital Network’s editorial voices and Maker creators and partnerships, the company says.
A group of media, journalism and tech companies has joined veteran media executive Merrill Brown to create a full-service publishing platform specifically built for digital news publishers called The News Project (TNP).
In addition to leading the company’s digital audio sales across the country, he will now also oversee digital video sales operations.
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Reed Hastings, the CEO and cofounder of Netflix, says his company is more of an evolution than a revolution in the media market. He talks about the company’s plans, as well as about the most popular series of the past few months.
Launched in February 2017, The Tennessee Star is part of a growing trend of opaque, locally focused, ideological outlets, dressed up as traditional newspapers. From the Arizona Monitor to the Maine Examiner, sites with names and layouts designed to echo those of nonpartisan publications — and with varying levels of credibility — have emerged across the country, aimed at influencing local politics by stepping into the coverage void left by the collapsing finances of local newspapers.
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Google will be extending its Google Preferred video advertising platform — already used by traditional TV media executives — to sell ad inventory on its year-old YouTube TV, its live linear package of TV networks.
The media conglomerate launched Viacom Digital Studios as part of an effort to help BET, Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central reach mobile-first viewers.
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Projects include original content from Saturday Night Live, Bravo Media’s Vanderpump Rules and Syfy Wire, with more NBCU networks, channels and shows to follow in the coming months, including projects from E!, NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Syfy, Telemundo and USA Network.
Live shows and content from ESPN will be announced at this week’s NewFronts. Other programming will come from ABC, Disney Channel and Freeform, Disney Digital Network, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Radio Disney and Marvel.
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Univision CEO Randy Falco, who announced plans to retire by year’s end, has signaled more upheaval and layoffs are in the media company’s future. Part of that is a concerted effort to more closely align Fusion and Gizmodo with the larger compan
YouTube wants to siphon off more advertising dollars out of the traditional TV ecosystem. Google’s video platform is promising Madison Avenue new ways to reach people watching YouTube on TV screens — as well as target YouTube ads to cord-cutters and consumers who don’t watch a lot of traditional TV.
Sprint and T-Mobile are in advanced discussions about merging, and a deal could be announced as soon as this weekend, people briefed on the matter said on Friday. Such a deal would complete one of the telecommunications industry’s most anticipated transactions and would create the third-largest wireless carrier in the United States, with more than 127 million customers.
It will begin charging $20 more for its membership program, which includes perks such as two-day shipping and access to video and music streaming libraries. The new price, $119, will go into effect May 11 for new subscribers, June 16 for renewing subscribers.
The NFL, which recently changed up its Thursday night broadcast plan by setting a new, long-term deal with Fox, has stuck with existing streaming partner Amazon for the primetime games. The renewal is good for the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
Stations in a NiemanLab sample posted an an average of just over 50% local content, using an an extremely generous threshold for “local” content.
Facebook is shaking up its Washington office and replacing its top United States policy staffer with a former Republican FCC chairman Kevin Martin.
Comcast is trying to refigure the traditional cable bundle, adding services like Netflix to its subscription packages and offering internet-only TV streaming. Cable operators and internet service providers say this business model is key to their survival.
The cable networks for children, in decline for years, are now in a free fall as kids prefer Netflix, YouTube ane other streaming services. This season’s ratings for the 2-to-11 set are shaping up to be the worst yet. And few in the industry predict a turnaround.
