Charter CEO Tom Rutledge met with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Wednesday to discuss “the public interest benefits of its proposed transaction with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks and the ways in which it will enhance competition,” according to a filing with the FCC by Charter.
NEW YORK (AP) — Gloria Steinem will host and produce a new television series on the Viceland network about the political impact of violence against women throughout the world. Viceland […]
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The Huskies win their fourth straight women’s college basketball title, but the game drops to a seven-year low on ESPN.
C-SPAN today announced the promotion of three long-time managers to expanded leadership posts. Richard Weinstein becomes vice president of digital media. He will be responsible for strategy and operations related […]
NEW YORK (AP) — When Tyler Perry began creating shows for the then-struggling OWN Network four years ago, he’d send the scripts he’d written to Oprah Winfrey for approval — […]
Villanova’s last-second win over North Carolina on Monday night averaged a 10.6 rating across TBS, TNT and truTV in the first title game to air on cable. The 17.8 million viewers were down 37% from the 28.3 million for last season’s Duke-Wisconsin matchup on CBS, which drew the largest audience in 18 years. Viewership was down 16% from the 21.3 million for UConn-Kentucky in 2014.
It took a week, but Comcast has response to the FCC about the Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios calling for a probe of the conglomerate’s minority programming efforts. “This is not the first time (or second, or third) that Petitioners have accused a programming distributor of instituting racist practices,” Comcast wrote in opposing Allen’s filing
Starz is the latest premium TV network to introduce an app that bypasses cable packages and lets viewers stream television shows and movies directly.
The “town hall” — in which a candidate typically has a one-on-one exchange with an anchor and takes questions from voters — has become an increasingly popular format on cable news networks. There have already been 24 of them across CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, up from just a handful in the entire 2012 campaign. While town halls don’t deliver the same massive Nielsen numbers as the debates, they are still potent from a ratings standpoint and give TV news a chance to drill deeper into the candidates’ policy positions.
The UNC-Syracuse game posts 12.9 million total viewers across three networks, off 43% from last year. It was also down 21% from the 2014 contest.
Takeaways From The Discovery Upfront
Can Netflix And Cable Work Together?
We shouldn’t necessarily believe all of the talk about Netflix and other streaming services mean the ultimate end of cable as we know it. It’s possible consumers will want as much quality programming as they can get. In that world, Netflix simply becomes another successful premium channel — a variation on HBO or Showtime.
Discovery, Comedy Central Join Upfront Pitches
It’s An ‘Angry Planet’ On Pivot TV
Cablevision Media Sales (CMS) and FourthWall Media today announced a partnership that will expand the reach of CMS’s advanced data analytics portfolio beyond the New York DMA. CMS will use […]
On April 4, TBS will become the first cable channel to air the title game of March Madness, reflecting a broader trend in the media world of marquee events shifting from broadcast to cable networks.
The bigger the boasts, the harder the pile-on when you don’t make good on them, it seems. So it goes with Viceland, which Oriana Schwindt reports is averaging just 55,000 viewers a day according to Rentrak data, 77% lower than H2 (the network it replaced) had in the last three weeks of its doomed existence.
Charter Communications is poised to gain FCC approval to join with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, and streaming looms large in the deal.
NEW YORK — Former “Friends” star Matthew Perry will play Ted Kennedy in the forthcoming miniseries “The Kennedys — After Camelot.” Reelz cable channel on Tuesday announced his casting for […]
The Wall Street Journal reports that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is likely to circulate a draft order as soon as this week approving Charter Communications’s $55 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable with certain conditions, according to people familiar with the matter. WSJ subscribers can read the story here.
