Home-entertainment marketing of theatrical movies — including pay-per-view digital viewing, and DVDs — has seen a sharp 65% drop in national TV marketing, partly due to the rise of streaming platforms. An estimated $26.2 million in national TV advertising was collectively spent over the last 12-month period (January 2021 to January 2022) among all the major studios — garnering 4.4 billion impressions from 19,380 airings of commercials, according to iSpot.tv.
The 59-year-old Stewart rose to prominence as a standup comic and host of multiple failed talk shows before taking over Comedy Central’s The Daily Show in 1999. His 16-year run as Daily Show host turned him into a cultural and political force as Stewart trained his satirical eye on both politics and an increasingly polarized national media.
For the first time, Fox Corp. will hold a unified in-person upfront presentation that includes entertainment programming on the Fox broadcast network, as well as pitches for Fox Sports and Fox News, the company said Wednesday. The in-person presentation, set for May 16, will also depart from tradition (or at least pre-pandemic tradition) by leaving midtown Manhattan for lower Manhattan, holding the advertising pitch at an event space that used to be the trading floor for the New York Mercantile Exchange.
NBC’s This Is Us led Tuesday in the demo (albeit with a series low), while CBS’s FBI rerun copped the night’s largest audience.
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Double-digit increases were the norm among the category leaders in first run in the week ending Jan 9.
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Jeopardy still hasn’t named a permanent host, but the game show is on a winning run, thanks to Amy Schneider’s winning streak, more sports-style analytics and a new executive producer rallying fans.
The awards will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, according to a joint statement released Tuesday by the Recording Academy and CBS. The show postponed its original date on Jan. 31 at the newly renamed Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles after organizers’ determined there were “too many risks” because of the virus’s latest surge.
Ellen DeGeneres’ game show Ellen’s Game of Games is not coming back to NBC. The series launched with an eight-episode order in 2017 and its fourth season, which debuted in October 2020 and ran through May 2021, featured 20 episodes.
The current sixth season of the CBS legal drama Bull will be its last. Star Michael Weatherly just made the announcement on Twitter. There are 12 remaining episodes, with the Season 6 — and series — finale expected to air in May.
Susanne Daniels has resigned as YouTube’s global head of original content after six years. She will leave in March. There, Daniels developed Cobra Kai, which was a YouTube original before moving to Netflix after two seasons. She also developed On Becoming a God in Central Florida, which moved to Showtime.
PBS today announced several new long-term initiatives to support diversity in public media. They include a commitment to create a pipeline of diverse documentary filmmakers and a pledge to include more diverse perspectives in key production roles. PBS also announced it will launch on the video-focused social media platform TikTok. PBS President-CEO Paula Kerger announced the initiatives Tuesday at the TCA Winter Press Tour.
Netflix now is expanding to a documentary series on golf, with the PGA Tour and the organizers of the four major championships granting access for a behind-the-scenes look. Among those who have signed up (without pay) to participate are multiple major champions like Jordan Spieth, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Collin Morikawa. Also on the list are Max Homa and Joel Dahmen, who have revealed their personalities through various social media.
ABC’s coverage of the Rams/Cardinals NFL Wild Card game averaged 10.4 million total viewers and a 2.2 demo rating, obviously leading Monday in both measures. Over on CBS, The Neighborhood (5.6M/0.6), Bob Hearts Abishola (5.3M/0.5) and NCIS (7M/0.5) all grew in audience, with The Neighborhood also ticking up in the demo.
Entravision will use Comscore’s next-generation linear audience measurement service as its local audience currency in Palm Springs, Calif. (DMA 146), where it owns KMIR. “Now is the ideal time to […]
AMG says Google Cloud’s scalable cloud infrastructure will power AMG’s digital evolution, allowing it to build apps faster, make smarter business decisions and connect to its audiences anywhere through data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator, once an icon of Hollywood feminism, is now an outcast accused of misogyny. How did he get here?
Dish is now without at least 106 channels due to 11 different carriage battles that span from last Wednesday night to 30 months ago. The blacked-out channels include 75 local network affiliates, and 31 regional sports networks.
Los Angeles sports and tourism insiders gathered to talk up plans for Feb. 13’s game amid community health concerns: “We have the world’s best stadium and we can host a healthy and safe event.” Above: Moderator Camryn Irwin leads a panel discussion featuring Adam Burke, president-CEO of the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board; Kathryn Schloessman, president-CEO, Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission; Katie Keenan, senior director of event operations, NFL; Kevin Demoff, COO, Los Angeles Rams; A.G. Spanos, president of business operations, Los Angeles Chargers; and Jason Gannon, managing director, SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park, held at SoFi Stadium on Jan. 13.
