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.
BRAND CONNECTIONS
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.
Exclusives
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.
Local TV stations are pumping up their branding of NFL football and high school sports programming with music packages from Stephen Arnold.
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.
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.
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He previously served as unscripted portfolio director at BBC Studios and has held the Fremantle role on an interim basis since January.
The corporate lawyer turned correspondent is having a moment on the cable news channel, relaying all the daily drama from the camera-free courtroom. “We have to bring all of those vivid details to people’s living rooms,” she says.
WEEK ENDING MAY 27
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.
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