NEW YORK (AP) — Late-night comic Conan O’Brien is hitting the road again — this time to Armenia. He’ll be the first American talk show host to do a show […]
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After announcing a change in programming priorities in September, the Doral, Fla.-based Fusion, a joint venture between Univision and the Walt Disney-owned ABC News, has revamped its overall television schedule and laid off 30 full-time employees.
ESPN has suspended its branded news segments featuring sports fantasy site DraftKings. The fantasy sports company has suspended virtually all TV advertising on the network. All this was in response to a DraftKings and FanDuel “insider trading” scandal that was revealed in a New York Times story on Tuesday. That story said a DraftKings employee used inside information to play on the competitor’s FanDuel site, winning $350,000.
Jay Leno says it’s been easy to lure Francis Ford Coppola, Laurence Fishburne and other famous folks to his new car-centric TV show. All he has to do is assure them that Jay Leno’s Garage, debuting at 10 p.m. ET Wednesday on CNBC, won’t veer off the road.
NEW YORK (AP) — The ABC Family network, home of youthful dramas “Pretty Little Liars” and “The Fosters,” said Tuesday it will change its name to Freeform this winter. The […]
It’s starting to feel inevitable that Lionsgate and the Starz premium cable channels will merge operations, brought together by the command bond of investor John Malone. But how quickly the companies will tie the knot is still the subject of much speculation. The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that the two entities were in advanced merger talks. That was downplayed by insiders at both companies and a senior Lionsgate investor, all of whom acknowledge that the concept of merging has been discussed in abstract but disputed that talks to unite the companies are under way.
MTV might be signaling a move in digital direction with the appointment of veteran digital media executive Sean Atkins as MTV president. He replaces Stephen Friedman, whose exit was announced a short time ago. Atkins will report to Doug Herzog, president of Viacom Music and Entertainment Group.
Rentrak today announced an agreement with Turner Broadcasting for Rentrak Advanced Demographics that will provide data for select advertisers around Turner’s suite of advanced advertising products. This agreement, an expansion […]
Patriot Media Group, a division of U.S. International Media, has been appointed as the sales representative for The Weather Channel’s Closed Captioning sponsorships. “We are excited to partner with Patriot […]
The European telecom giant may think about acquiring smaller operators like Cable One or Mediacom.
France’s Altice has set a rich cash acquisition agreement for Cablevision that promises to make the European telecom conglomorate a player in the U.S. television business. Altice said early Thursday that would pay $34.90 a share in cash for Cablevision, valuing the deal at $17.7 billion including existing Cablevision debt. In May, Altice bought a majority stake in another U.S. operator, Suddenlink.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The host of the Sportsman Channel hunting show “The Syndicate” was charged Monday with two felonies related to poaching in northwest Alaska. Karen Loeffler, the U.S. […]
Some pay TV providers are better at attracting OTT subscribers than others. That includes Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Cox Communications. A study by Millward Brown Digital found these traditional cable operators performing better — in general — than satellite and telco operators.
As expected, Fusion CEO Isaac Lee outlined, in a Thursday memo to staff, a series of changes to the television network’s “existing in-house, studio-based shows” that includes the discontinuation of its latenight series Come Here and Say That, hosted by Alicia Menendez. Another series, Soccer Gods, will become a “digital-first brand.”
Cable has no “fall season” as such, leaving the broadcast networks to start all their new shows in the same few weeks and force viewers to choose among them. But with premieres all year round, cable does offer plenty of new and noteworthy shows between now and the end of November.
