Reality TV contestants are barely paid, and the experience can feel like abuse. Former cast members of Netflix’s megahit are speaking out — and calling for solidarity.
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.
One series will involve bandmates auditioning and rehearsing without ever seeing each other.
Shonda Rhimes’ medical drama continues to draw new fans and has become the most-streamed Disney show around the world.
Development and production have been sluggish since the strikes, leaving desperate workers in the lurch: "All of a sudden the faucet just turned off."
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.
The spinoff of The Good Wife and The Good Fight is a unique breakout — a broadcast TV ratings success that thrives on bright colors, quips and kindness.
The new partnership delivers free 24/7 local news, entertainment and Spanish-language weather programming to Amazon Fire TV and Echo Show devices.
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.”
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)
Shares opened higher in Europe on Thursday after a retreat in Asia as rising bond yields weighed on stock prices. (Ahn Young-joon/AP)
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a remote position as a national advertising sales account executive. Existing jobs posted include openings for a vice president-GM, a market manager and director of student media.
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.