Comedy Central on Wednesday said Stewart will host the topical TV show, the perch he ruled for 16 years starting in 1999, every Monday starting Feb. 12. A rotating lineup of show regulars are on tap for the rest of the week.
Hemisphere Media Group, a U.S. media company targeting U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets, has promoted Jimmy Arteaga Grustein to chief content officer. Arteaga, previously president of programming, production and […]
Nexstar’s cable news network NewsNation is adding Caitlyn Becker as a national correspondent. She will begin her new role on Saturday, Jan. 27, reporting across the network’s programming. “As we continue to expand […]
Media and entertainment veteran Kim Williams is to be appointed the next chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Williams takes over from the departing Ita Buttrose and will have a five-year mandate. He joins at a moment when the ABC is enduring a moment of editorial turbulence. The public broadcaster has recently been criticized for its coverage of the war in Palestine.
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LG Ad Solutions, a global provider of connected TV (CTV) and cross-screen advertising, today appointed Angela Barnett head of corporate communications. Barnett is an accomplished corporate communications leader with extensive expertise […]
Morena Baccarin (Deadpool franchise) is set to appear in an upcoming episode of CBS’s Fire Country, playing a sheriff character that could lead her own series. Baccarin will guest star in the Season 2 episode with an option to become a series regular in a potential spinoff series. Like the mothership series, the proposed offshoot would be produced by CBS Studios.
Mike Calia has been named managing editor of NBC News’s Business & Economy unit. He comes from CNBC, where he was a senior editor at CNBC Digital. He will oversee editorial direction for the Business & Economy unit, with an emphasis on the state of the economy, the American consumer, the jobs market and what NBC News calls “pocketbook issues.” Calia spent close to seven years at CNBC.
A familiar face on television as the host of CBS Sunday Morning from 1994 to 2016, he was also known for his Osgood File segments on CBS Radio, often delivered with humor and a rhyme.
Capitol Broadcasting hires him from KUTV Salt Lake City to succeed the retiring Rick Gall.
Leading First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams claims federal regulators have “amply basis” to revoke Fox Corp.’s license for WTXF Philadelphia over 2020 election falsehoods aired on Fox News Channel and various Fox-owned TV stations. Abrams said he came to his conclusion after reviewing presiding Delaware Judge Eric Davis’s determinations about Fox’s journalism in the Dominion Voting System defamation case and submissions in the same case by the Media and Democracy Project about the conduct of Fox executives over 2020 election reporting by Fox News Channel.
Sinclair ABC affiliate WJLA Washington is introducing a new 4 p.m. anchor team consisting of Victoria Sanchez and Megan Clarke with Live Desk anchor John Rogers and meteorologist Steve Rudin. […]
The annual The Broadcasters Foundation of America Award Ceremony and Dinner is set for March 4 at New York’s Plaza hotel.
Los Angeles Times managing editors Shani Hilton and Sara Yasin have stepped down amid continuing negotiations on staff layoffs. Hilton and Yasin were two of the four editors leading the paper after the exit of executive editor Kevin Merida earlier this month.
She will lead an integrated team responsible for enhancing the media properties’ brands and expanding their influence across Northern California.
Sinclair moves her from its Oklahoma duopoly to oversee WPEC, WTVX and WTCN in Florida.
He will oversee the company’s Ad Sales efforts across the company’s portfolio of brands and platforms, including Fox Entertainment, Tubi, Fox Sports, FS1, FS2, Fox Deportes, and Fox News Media, which includes Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.
The Flip Side, a new syndicated game show hosted by Jaleel White, will launch in the fall, with CBS Stations signing on as the anchor station group, it was announced […]
