Free TV Networks, the new company started by Jonathan Katz and backed by Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate and Gray Television, said it has added new carriage agreements for its The365 and Outlaw channels with Tegna, Sunbeam and HC2-owned stations. The new distribution puts The365 in 29 new markets with carriage now in 111 million homes, or 89% of U.S. households, by the second quarter of this year.
Dow Climbs 76, Nasdaq Gains 130, S&P Adds 32
Wall Street rose Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting on interest rates, which ends on Wednesday. The widespread expectation is for the central bank to hold its main interest rate steady at its highest level since 2001.
Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis has recommended that Disney shareholders withhold votes for all board candidates except the company’s own. A thumbs up from the influential firm, which advise stockholders how they should vote on various matters at annual meetings, is a significant win for Disney as institutional investors take the recommendations of these firms quite seriously an have been waiting to see how they would line up. Another large advisory firm, ISS, hasn’t yet put out its report.
Communications agency Platform Communications has appointed Edward Bell as Associate director. Bell brings over a decade of experience working with major tech and media brands, most recently at WPP’s specialist […]
The longtime corporate agitator feels misunderstood. Maybe his fight with Disney could change that.
Legal battle would force courts to weigh the government’s national security objectives against the First Amendment rights of TikTok and its users.
None of the four leading candidates has the perfect resume for the top job. Neither did Bob Iger when he was first named CEO.
DirecTV said it would be allowing customers to opt out of receiving their local TV stations, and pay a lower monthly rate in the bargain. Customers who opt out of receiving local stations directly through DirecTV will receive discounts of $12 a month or $140 a year.
The state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida will be raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from online sports betting this decade, thanks to a compact between the tribe and Gov. Ron DeSantis that gave the tribe exclusive rights to run sports wagers as well as casino gambling on its reservations. But are these online wagers on the outcome of sporting events legally on tribal land, when really only the computer servers are located there, accepting bets made using mobile phones and computers from anywhere in Florida? Pictured: The guitar shaped hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla. (Brynn Anderson/AP)
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a media engineer supervisor, a national advertising sales account executive and a broadcast maintenance technician.
Dow Drops 191, Nasdaq Falls 155, S&P Loses 33
On Thursday, Wall Street slipped further away from records amid inflation worries.
The crew union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are tentatively scheduled to discuss the specific concerns of the cinematographers’ and editors’ unions, among others, after nearly a week of internal discussions.
The former Apple and Hulu Executive is tapped to lead the new joint venture from Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Allergist/immunologist, baseball lover Milo Vassallo leads the Media and Democracy Project in a struggle with Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
Disney is Swift-ifying its homepage with collections of movies and TV shows like Fearless (Disney’s Version) to coincide with the streaming release of The Era’s Tour (Taylor’s Version).
NBCUniversal said it is working with Google and LiveRamp to deliver more effective personalized commercials on connected TV. NBCU is implementing Google’s Display & Video 360 Publisher Advertiser Identity Reconciliation (PAIR) system, which lets it make its own first-party data more compatible with data from clients. NBCU would be the first major CTV provider using PAIR live later this quarter.
Dow Sinks 138, Nasdaq Loses 49, S&P Falls 15
Wall Street slipped Thursday after another report on inflation that was worse than expected.
NCAA’s “March Madness,” the three-week men’s college basketball tournament on CBS and Turner cable networks and platforms, has seen TV advertising price increases of mid- to high-single digit percentage gains with overall ad-revenue volume of similar percentage hikes.
Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he wants to pull together a group of investors to buy TikTok. Mnuchin, who also has connections to Hollywood, announced his plans on CNBC Thursday morning.
Buyers can access inventory directly from sellers including A+E Networks, AMC Networks, DirecTV Advertising, Dish Media, Disney Advertising, Fix Digital, LG Ad Solutions, Vizio and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Charter’s Spectrum cable and streaming platforms will continue carriage of The Weather Channel, TheGrio, JusticeCentral.TV, Pets.TV, Recipe.TV and Cars.TV in addition to retrans renewal for Allen Media’s TV stations. Also, The Weather Channel TV app is now included for authenticated Spectrum Video customers.
The Media Rating Council (MRC) has named Hannah Bolcar director, measurement audit operations, effective immediately. Bolcar will be responsible for leading support of MRC’s audit and accreditation activities. This will […]
Closed ecosystems benefit; smaller publishers face daunting and costly challenges.
DuJuan McCoy, owner/president/CEO of Circle City Broadcasting (owner of WISH and WNDY Indianapolis) has been awarded the 2024 Small Business Person of the Year for the state of Indiana by the U.S. Small Business Administration. […]
With shows like Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building showing up on Disney’s ABC, legacy media companies are finding that exposure on TV networks can help expand the audience for their streaming series — and avoid leaving money on the table.
Even though legislation is moving forward, the video social media app isn’t disappearing from smartphones any time soon.
Walt Disney Co.’s board is focusing on four divisional heads as part of a formal search for an eventual successor to Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger, people with knowledge of the matter said. The four are TV chief Dana Walden, ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro, theme-parks boss Josh D’Amaro and Alan Bergman, who heads the film business, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private conversations.