The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Southeast Chapter will bestow its Board of Governors’ Award to digital broadcast network entrepreneur and pioneer Jonathan Katz at its annual […]
Bill Pruitt, who worked on the first seasons of the NBC reality show, writes in a story on Slate that Trump used the word while dismissing the idea that a Black contestant, Kwame Jackson, could be an early winner on the series.
Live video technology provider EVS has appointed Richard Katz as senior vice president of operations for the North and Latin American (NALA) region. This appointment, the company said “is integral […]
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who started talking about more deals shortly after inking a massive merger, irritating Wall Street, has been publicly quiet on that front for a bit. Today, he said he sees opportunities in M&A with the company on a stronger financial footing and rolling out streamer Max globally to achieve necessary scale.
EditShare, which lets storytellers create and manage collaborative workflows at every stage from storyboard to screening, has appointed Grant Carroll as senior vice president fos Sales for the Americas. He […]
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The former GM of WACH Columbia, S.C. is tapped to succeed the retiring Mike Oates as head of Gray’s CBS-NBC duopoly.
Peltz sold all of his Disney stock at roughly $120 a share, making about $1 billion on the position, according to a person familiar with the matter. The stock currently trades for about $100 per share. The exit comes weeks after Peltz’s Trian Partners lost a proxy battle at Disney in early April as shareholders reelected the company’s full slate of board nominees.
Robert De Niro, announced as the winner of the NAB’s Leadership Foundation’s Service to America Leadership Award the day before, will not get the award. The NAB noted that the June 4 awards event is “proudly bipartisan,” and said on Wednesday the actor’s “recent high-profile activities will create a distraction.”
Kennedy alleges the requirements to participate in the June 27 debate were designed to ensure only Biden and Trump would qualify and Kennedy claims he is being held to a higher standard. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
Lauren Anderson has been named head, brand and content innovation. In the new role, she will managed Amazon MGM Studios’ collaboration with brands as they partner on its originals.
Lisa Valentino, a senior executive at Disney Advertising Sales who had in the past been tasked with several of the unit’s digital initiatives, has left the company, according to people familiar with the matter, even as Disney is in the midst of its upfront talks with advertisers.
Gileadi had been with Google, where she was global product lead for cross-media measurement and industry advocacy.
Scripps taps the former Spectrum News 1 newsroom leader to oversee daily operations as well as news at the ABC affiliates in Texas.
Newly-installed Daily Beast boss Joanna Coles is anxious to hire boldface names like ousted CNN host Brian Stelter — as she sharpens the ax to slash more than a third of the staff. Coles — who was brought in by media mogul Barry Diller along with Disney bigwig Ben Sherwood last month to resuscitate the floundering news site, sources close to the situation said on Tuesday.
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — who has an extensive history promoting lies and conspiracy theories, including around the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Sept. 11 attacks and legitimacy of the 2020 vote — outlined his plan on Tuesday to revive the once high-flying progressive media company, which he disclosed earlier this month he had taken an activist stake in. (Jamie Kelter Davis for NBC News)
Next season could be the last for TNT’s influential and beloved studio show, and Charles Barkley, for one, will not be going quietly.
He previously served as unscripted portfolio director at BBC Studios and has held the Fremantle role on an interim basis since January.
