A federal judge has blocked Texas from enforcing a law that aimed to block social media companies from banning users based on political views. Judge Robert Pitman issued the order Wednesday in favor of two industry associations that sued to block the Texas law. (Famartin/Wikimedia Commons)
TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with Syncbak CEO Jack Perry about VUit, the streaming channel aggregator of local newscasts, about deals it has closed with a slate of new local partners and the prospect of hyperlocal scalability in OTT.
The employees walked out on an important day for the media company: Shareholders are voting Thursday to take it public.
Some observers predicted the just completed carriage talks between Disney and Comcast might make a convenient container in which to resolve Hulu ownership. Why didn’t that happen?
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Netflix said it has fulfilled a pledge to move two percent of its cash holdings, around $100 million, into Black-led banks and financial institutions, a plan it first announced in late June of 2020, and announced how the funds have been distributed. The idea is that better capitalized institutions will mean more home and small-business loans and better opportunities for Black communities.
Some lawmakers from both parties argue that when social media sites boost the performance of hateful or violent posts, the sites become accomplices.
The successful B-to-B sales and publishing executive will play a key role in generating revenue for TVNewsCheck.com and its companion newsletters, premium events, webinars and video series.
Digital media veteran Kelly Day is leaving ViacomCBS to join Amazon as VP of Prime Video International, a newly created role overseeing the ecommerce giant’s streaming video business in global markets. Day will join Amazon in early January 2022, reporting to Mike Hopkins, SVP of Amazon Studios and Prime Video.
After more than two years, the Prime Video comedy series will be back for Season 4 on Friday, Feb. 18, the streaming service announced Tuesday. For the first time in Mrs. Maisel‘s run, episodes will drop on a weekly basis instead of a binge-release rollout, with two new installments becoming available every Friday for four consecutive weeks.
In the latest of TVNewsCheck‘s How To video series, Ken Haddad, digital special projects editor at Graham-owned WDIV Detroit, breaks down successful approaches to developing newsletters that connect with audiences and build meaningful — and revenue-generating — audience engagement. Watch more How To videos here.
Nearly two dozen current and former Politico staffers told The Daily Beast of a series of burgeoning conflicts within the iconic Beltway publication.
Dorsey will remain on the board until his term expires in 2022. He has been succeeded by Twitter’s current chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal. Agrawal joined Twitter in 2011 and has been CTO since 2017.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role, sources tell CNBC’s David Faber. Twitter stock was up on the news before being halted due to news pending. Dorsey, 45, currently serves as both the CEO of Twitter and Square, his digital payments company.
An episode that references the Tiananmen Square massacre is left out of the recently launched Disney+ streaming lineup.
Disney next year will spend nearly twice as much on content as Netflix did in 2021.
Origin Sports Network has expanded its lineup of distribution partners to include The Roku Channel (ch. 238, U.S. only) and Samsung TV Plus (ch. 1163), more than quadrupling its addressable […]
HBO’s GM Andy Foressell tries to explain to an equity analyst why the platform wants to take 16% less in annual subscription fees.
Gray Television said it will be removing its local content from Sinclair’s NewsOn, one of a number of platforms streaming local news to out-of-market viewers. Gray is an investor in VUit, a local news streaming platform launched last year by tech firm Syncbak, and is focusing out-of-market streaming efforts there.
Hulu, Sling TV and a host of other streaming video companies are rolling out aggressive promotions to coincide with Black Friday. Streaming device makers are also getting in on Black Friday.
Netflix’s Tiger King 2 opened with a roar, though viewership was nowhere near the Season 1 phenomenon. The second season launched to 30 million hours streamed over the docuseries’ first five days, according to Netflix. The show charted at No. 2 on Netflix’s Top 10. All that, with two days to spare.
When the Miss America Pageant (now formally known as the Miss America Competition) returns this year for its 100th anniversary after being scuttled by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, it won’t air on a traditional television network — the latest indication how TV culture is radically changing in the face of broadband technology that gives entertainment seekers whatever they want at the push of a button. The finale, set to stream on NBCUniversal’s Peacock on Dec. 16 from the Mohegan Sun Arena, with feature a pre-show at 7 p.m. ET followed by a live competition show at 8. For the first time in the pageant’s history, viewers will be able to watch the program live no matter the time zone in which they live.
