Altice USA said it is renaming a4, its advanced advertising and data unit, as Optimum Media, bringing its branding in line with its pay TV, broadband and mobile phone businesses.
The joint venture among the three teams and Standard Media, CHSN will start with airing Blackhawks and Bulls preseason games in October, showing White Sox games beginning in 2025. The rest of the White Sox games in 2024 will remain on NBC Sports Chicago. (Aaron Gash/AP)
Hometown TV Network is paying $500,000 for the Budd Broadcasting LPTV station.
All American is returning to the CW for a Season 7, the network announced Monday. It will be joined by Season 11 of the magician competition series Penn & Teller: Fool Us as well as Season 4 of the historical drama about Jesus, The Chosen.
Amazon has ordered a reboot of the classic competition series for its Prime Video service. The series is produced by MGM Alternative and Amazon MGM Studiosd for Prime Video in association with Flor-Jon Films, the production company from American Gladiators co-creator Johnny C. Ferraro, who exec produces.
In a one-hour Nexstar Special Presentation, WAVY Norfolk, Va., anchor-reporter Marielena Balouris returns to Normandy and shares the stories of the sons, brothers and fathers lost in the invasion, and the women who made a difference in the war effort, both in battle and on the homefront. These are stories of perseverance, unimaginable sacrifice, and the lessons and legacy of D-day.
Paramount Global and David Ellison’s Skydance Media have agreed to deal terms on a potential merger, which currently awaits approval from controlling shareholder Shari Redstone, according to an individual familiar with the matter.
AI Safety Becomes A Partisan Battlefield
Like "election integrity" in politics, everyone says they support "AI safety" — but now the term means something different depending on who's saying it. The noisy departure of the head of OpenAI's "superalignment" team, charged with limiting any harm from advanced AI, reignited a long-running Silicon Valley debate on AI safety.
At Covington & Burling, he was at the forefront of law related to satellite communications, cellular phone service and broadband technologies.
Google Rolls Back AI Search Feature After Flubs And Flaws
Google appears to have turned off its new AI Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors. Pictured: Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, introduced A.I. Overviews, an AI feature in its search engine, last month. (Jeff Chiu/AP)
A special committee of Paramount’s board of directors supports a merger with Skydance, a studio that has increased its offer in recent days. But the deal isn’t done yet.
Matt Loeb, the president of IATSE, told members Saturday that he is hopeful that a deal will be reached “soon” with the studios on a new agreement for 23 local unions across the country.
In the newsroom restructuring, Matt Murray and Robert Winnett will take on new editorial leadership roles at the newspaper.
The final season of last year's viral phenomenon was previously available only on Peacock.
Seedtag, which recently launched its Contextual TV offering for connected TV advertising, said it acquired Beachfront Media, a sell-side platform with direct access to CTV inventory.
In early trading Monday, Germany's DAX advanced 1% to 18,728.00 and the CAC 40 in Paris climbed 0.6% to 8,040.94. Britain's FTSE 100 added 0.4% to 8,313.50.
Leaders from Televisa Univision, WCVB, KPIX and Ross will discuss the upshots of adopting virtual sets and AR into their news production and the challenges they’ve navigated along the way in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch Webinar on June 27 at 1 p.m. ET. Register here.
Martin Starger, a producer for such films as Robert Altman’s Nashville and Peter Bogdanovich’s Mask, died Friday. As the first president of ABC Entertainment, he helped bring such projects as Roots, Happy Days and Rich Man, Poor Man to television.
After a nine-year revival, Sony’s TriStar Television label, which was behind such series as The Afterparty, is being phased out again. Its two top executives, EVP Jennifer Turner, who ran the unit for the past two and a half years, and SVP Nicole Norwood, will be leaving the studio. TriStar Television has no current series on the air. Its development slate will be taken over by Sony Pictures Television’s drama development team. Pictured: The Afterparty, Lucky Hank, On Becoming a God in Central Florida and Good Girls Revolt (AMC/Showtime/Prime)
Technology leaders from NBC Regional Sports Networks, Sinclair, Gray Television, Hearst Television and Fox Television Stations discuss the benefits and challenges of remote production in an IP environment in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch webinar on July 16 at 1 p.m. ET. Register here.