Kevin Adell’s WADL Detroit (DMA 15) has secured the market’s MyNetworkTV affiliation, and will make the switch Sep. 20. WMYD, known as TV20 and owned by Scripps, is the current MyNetworkTV station in Detroit.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor William Smith, who played bikers, brawlers, cowboys and no-nonsense tough guys in films and television shows including “Laredo,” “Rich Man, Poor Man” and “Any Which […]
Wellington Paranormal, a comedy about police chasing down supernatural interlopers in the New Zealand capital, starts on The CW July 11. It is a spinoff of vampire comedy film What We Do in the Shadows.
ESPN struck a new 12-year deal with All-England Lawn Tennis Club that expands the company’s ability to show the iconic Wimbledon tennis championships to sports fans who may be gravitating to forms of video other than traditional TV. The new pact, which begins with the 2024 Championships and extends through 2035, calls for more matches to be shown on both ESPN’s Disney sibling ABC, as well as on ESPN Plus, its subscription broadband service.
Apple is interested in streaming rights for the National Football League’s Sunday Ticket package. Apple has had discussions with NFL executives, but the NFL is also speaking with TV networks and other tech firms as well.
The first Thursday installment of CBS‘s Love Island Season 3 drew 1.64 million viewers and a 0.3 demo rating — up 11% and steady versus the same night last summer. ABC’s coverage of the NBA Finals Game 2 dominated Thursday in both total viewers and in the demo, posting 7M and 2.2 in preliminary numbers
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TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp talks with Stephen Brown, EVP of programming development for Fox First Run and Fox Television Stations, about the strategic role of game shows in Fox’s syndication lineup, along with how programming is progressing at Fox Soul, the group’s African-American-targeted streaming channel.
Netflix’s Sweet Tooth was the most watched program on the four biggest domestic SVOD services for the week of June 7-13, attracting 1.434 billion viewing minutes in the U.S., according to Nielsen. It’s a big number but, 404 million fewer viewing minutes than Lucifer tallied the previous week, May 31-June 6.
Enhanced audio, cameras inside the homes of athletes’ family members and a “fan video wall” are among the plans to compensate for the lack of a live crowd.
CBS’s Big Brother opened Season 23 with 4 million total viewers and a 1.0 rating — up 10% in audience from last summer’s premiere while steady in the demo, and leading Wednesday in both measures.
Can’t Watch Fireworks At Home? Millions Chose NBC
NBC won last week with an average of 2.9 million viewers in primetime. CBS was second with 2.6 million, ABC had 2.3 million, Fox had 1.6 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 1 million. TNT, riding three games of the NBA Conference Finals, led the cable networks with an average of 2.141 million in prime time. Fox News Channel had 2.139 million, ESPN had 1.58 million, MSNBC had 1.36 million and HGTV had 1.09 million.
Ryan Lowerre has joined Lionsgate as president of domestic television and digital distribution, the company announced today. The former Amazon Prime exec’s appointment completes the reconfiguration of the company’s Worldwide Television and Digital Distribution Operations across streaming, broadcast and cable platforms.
Magazines On The Move, Led By ‘ET’
The leader, and one of four shows in the genre to post week-to-week ratings gains in the session ending June 27, climbed climbed 11% to a 2.0 live-plus-same-day national rating, and rose 33% among women 25-54.
ABC’s coverage of the NBA Finals opener averaged 6.4 million total viewers and a 2.1 rating, down 13% and 18% from the preliminary numbers for last year’s Game 1 (which was pandemic-delayed until August) yet still easily topping Tuesday in the demo. NBC’s America’s Got Talent (6.9M/0.8) slipped two tenths in the demo yet managed to deliver Tuesday’s largest audience.
The sitcom starring John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart and Joseph Gordon-Levitt joins the multicast network with a Season 1 marathon on July 18.
American Spirit Media’s Fox affiliate WDBD Jackson, Miss., has added the new Scripps diginet Defy TV. This new network on ch. 40.5 joins WDBD’s roster of multicast offerings that include […]
The companies said Tuesday that starting in 2022 all Universal films, including the new Jurassic World and Minions movies, will become available exclusively on Peacock no later than four months after their theatrical premieres. Both companies are subsidiaries of Comcast’s NBCUniversal.
Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy have reinvigorated a once-storied Hollywood institution. Now it needs to figure out its place in a streaming company.
NBC’s coverage of Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final averaged 2.6 million total viewers on Monday night, up 30% from Friday’s Game 3 to mark the Canadiens/Lightning series’ largest audience thus far. Over on ABC, The Bachelorette (3.3M/0.7) added a few eyeballs while steady in the demo, leading Monday in both measures.
Starting on Wednesday, the entertainment news show will expand its reach to the Snapchat Discover audience. Rachel Lindsay, who currently is a correspondent on the syndicated newsmagazine, will run down the headlines on the new platform.
The filmmaker, who helped create the modern superhero blockbuster with 1978’s Superman and mastered the buddy comedy with the Lethal Weapon franchise was 91. He got his start directing television series including Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Twilight Zone, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Fugitive.
