Shonda Rhimes’ medical drama continues to draw new fans and has become the most-streamed Disney show around the world.
One series will involve bandmates auditioning and rehearsing without ever seeing each other.
Siding against Amazon, a federal judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with charges that the company used “dark patterns” to dupe people into signing up for Prime subscriptions, and also thwarted subscribers' attempts to cancel.
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.
Development and production have been sluggish since the strikes, leaving desperate workers in the lurch: "All of a sudden the faucet just turned off."
CBS has the grayest primetime audience (and the largest one), while Fox’s five animated series helped age down that broadcaster during the 2023-24 season.
CTS to acquire, prepare, create, package and deliver linear TV and OTT channels.
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.”
Shares opened higher in Europe on Thursday after a retreat in Asia as rising bond yields weighed on stock prices. (Ahn Young-joon/AP)
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)
Dow Falls 411, Nasdaq Drops 99, S&P Slips 39
Wall Street wilted Wednesday to trim its May gains. It had been on track for its best month since last November.
The new partnership delivers free 24/7 local news, entertainment and Spanish-language weather programming to Amazon Fire TV and Echo Show devices.
The move marks a notable opportunity for Class A television, LPTV and TV translator stations to improve their service and resolve long-standing channel issues.
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.
Evolving tech is blurring lines and encroaching on artists’ terrain. But rather than just fighting AI, the industry must harness it in creative new ways, writes power player Dawn Ostroff.
Gileadi had been with Google, where she was global product lead for cross-media measurement and industry advocacy.
The CW said it will broadcast the 2024 Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop. Last year, The CW aired the game when it was called the Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl.
Scripps taps the former Spectrum News 1 newsroom leader to oversee daily operations as well as news at the ABC affiliates in Texas.
The deals give OpenAI added momentum in its quest for credible content to train its algorithms and inform its chatbots — and could also protect the Microsoft-backed company further from future copyright liability. Both multi-year partnerships include agreements in which OpenAI is able to license the publishers' archived content to train its AI models.
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)
Local TV stations are pumping up their branding of NFL football and high school sports programming with music packages from Stephen Arnold.
Next season could be the last for TNT’s influential and beloved studio show, and Charles Barkley, for one, will not be going quietly.
Jeffrey M. McCall: Solid journalism is, indeed, essential to the functioning of the nation. The constitutional framers knew that well, but they also knew that journalism’s function of watchdogging the government had to be done with independence, completely separate from government strings, financial or otherwise.
He previously served as unscripted portfolio director at BBC Studios and has held the Fremantle role on an interim basis since January.
Venu Sports, the new sports streaming bundle from Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery expected to launch later this year, could attract more than 40% of sports viewers 18+, according to a new report from Horowitz Research.
The annual one-day campaign aims to raise money and awareness to help radio and TV professionals in acute need.
Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $350,000
The purchase of four stations by Gray Television tops the latest list of TV station transactions submitted to the FCC for its approval, according to BIA Advisory Services.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
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