Through the first four weeks of the new season, professional football games are averaging 17.3 million viewers on television and digital, a whopping 17% increase over last season and 3% compared to two years ago.
Flay and Food Network have been in negotiations on a new contract for some time. The superstar chef’s most recent exclusive three-year pact with the Discovery-owned cable network expires at year’s end. Sources close to the situation say that Food Network has ended the negotiations.
There aren’t too many announcer/analyst teams that get to reach 100 games together, but Fox’s Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt will reach the century mark this weekend. Johnson and Klatt […]
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Fremantle today announced two new hires to its scripted business. Nyanza Shaw is executive vice president of scripted business and legal affairs, while Jerry Jacobs has joined the company as […]
CBS’s Survivor drew 5.6 million total viewers and a 0.9 rating, dipping in the demo week-to-week yet still leading Wednesday in that measure. NBC’s Chicago Med (6.7M/0.8) ticked up, Fire (7M/0.8) was steady and copped the night’s largest audience, and P.D. (5.6M/0.7) dipped.
Daytime TV veteran Talia Parkinson-Jones has been named the new executive producer of the fourth hour of NBC’s Today show, placing a new supervisor atop an hour that helps the network reach critical morning audiences.
Live streaming TV service Philo is now fully integrated into Google TV, meaning users of the connected TV platform will see Philo content alongside shows and films from their other services. Philo subscribers can use Google TV to access their shows and Philo channels directly from the Live tab, and see customized recommendations in the “For You” tab. The company said the integration is rolling out of the next few days.
Tegna’s stations were blacked out to Dish TV’s 3 million subscribers Wednesday evening after the two companies were unable to reach a new retransmission deal. The blackout affects Dish customers in 53 markets.
USA Network has set its retail panel for the new, first-of-its-kind shoppable live competition series America’s Big Deal from inventor and entrepreneur Joy Mangano and hosted by Access Hollywood journalist […]
Backing Netflix executives’ projections that Squid Game would be its biggest global TV series ever, TV analytics company TVision says the South Korean dystopian drama pulled in a massive 11% of all streaming time spent by U.S. viewers this past weekend.
Media CEOs Must Step Up To Avert IATSE Strike
Claudia Eller: It will be a downright fiasco if the leadership of Hollywood’s studios, networks and streamers doesn’t do everything in its collective bargaining power to prevent the labor union representing camera operators, editors, production designers, grips and other workers from going out on strike.
The appointment comes two days after Campbell announced that she was leaving Disney’s Hulu, where she had been president. Campbell will join the Peacock leadership team starting in November and will be based in the Los Angeles area. She will report to Matt Strauss, chairman, NBCU’s Direct-to-Consumer and International.
NBC’s La Brea drew 4.9 million total viewers and a 0.6 rating, down just a tick in the demo from the preliminary numbers for last week’s series premiere. Bookending the freshman drama, The Voice (6.9M/0.8) was also down a smidge but still led Tuesday both measures.
Negotiations between the studios and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees are expected to continue on Wednesday as the sides try to avoid a strike that would shut down production and immediately cripple Hollywood’s content pipeline. In what could be taken as a sign of progress, the two sides are not saying much publicly about the negotiations.
The broadcaster is telling the satellite provider’s customers that with an extension to the current carriage agreement set to expire, they could lose access to its stations.
Brady’s Return Leads NBC To A Strong Week
NBC won the second week of the television season handily, averaging 7.5 million viewers. CBS averaged 5.3 million, ABC had 3,7 million, Fox had 2.1 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and Ion Television had 890,000. ESPN led cable networks, averaging 2.78 million in primetime. Fox News Channel had 2.26 million, MSNBC had 1.19 million, HGTV had 972,000 and TLC had 832,000.
It’s typical for Hollywood’s labor unions to support for each other during labor disputes, but the support for IATSE during its current contract dispute with film and TV producers goes beyond the usual labor solidarity. That’s because the below-the-line workers’ union could be setting a standard for all future Hollywood contracts in the streaming era.
Fans of ESPN’s Monday Night Football might get something next week they won’t be expecting — a tribute to hockey. The Disney-backed sports-media giant expects to spend part of its next halftime show treating viewers to a concert as well as a surprise visit from someone who is emblematic of the icy pastime, says Mark Gross, senior vice president of production and remote events, in an interview. He declined to name the person likely to appear. The weekly football showcase “exposes a large audience to the NFL and a larger audience” to a new NHL schedule slated to start the very next night, says the executive.
‘Jeopardy’ Moves Back Into First-Place Tie
Interim host Mayim Bialik helps move the game up to a 5.4 in the session ending Sept. 26, joining Family Feud at the top.
NBC’s The Voice this Monday drew 7.2 million total viewers and a 0.9 rating, up in audience but down a tick in the demo week-to-week yet still leading the night in the latter measure. Ordinary Joe then did 2.8M and a 0.4, adding eyeballs in Week 3 while stabilizing in the demo.
