The National Football League is making its long-gestating flag football league official, lining up a murderers row of investors and partnering with TMRW Sports to launch the league, which will include both women’s and men’s […]
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Peter Alexander, the veteran NBC News chief White House correspondent and the co-anchor of the Saturday edition of the Today show, is leaving the network. Alexander announced the decision on the Today show Saturday morning. […]
Every month, streaming gets a bit closer to good old fashioned pay-TV. Now seemingly every service pairs its scripted entertainment with lowbrow reality fare and live sports. And, increasingly, the monthly prices for those services […]
Earlier this week, I woke up my phone and opened the YouTube app, watching some sports highlights, before switching to Netflix and finishing an old episode of Arrested Development. It was wholly unremarkable, save for […]
Netflix is hiking subscription prices across all its plans in its first major price increase in more than a year. The plans were disclosed on Netflix’s help page Thursday. The ad-supported tier will rise by […]
Bob Iger may be a legend at Disney, but this summer he will officially become a Disney Legend. Iger is one of 11 inductees into this year’s class of Disney Legends, a sort of Hall […]
The answer: “This long-running syndicated TV game show will be launching a new spin-off, exclusively on YouTube.” The question: “What is Jeopardy!” The Sony Pictures Television produced game show plans to significantly ramp up its […]
Warner Bros. Discovery has scheduled its special meeting of shareholders to vote on the $110 billion mega-deal by Paramount Skydance. The company said early Thursday that the special shareholder meeting will be held on April […]
MS NOW is sticking with Morning Joe. The cable channel has inked new long-term deals with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Axios, which first reported on the deal, says the […]
Hallmark is taking its show on the road. The cable TV brand and holiday stalwart is launching a multi-city tour called Hallmark Stars Live with some of the recurring stars of its films and shows. […]
Can a gig economy stalwart crack Hollywood? Fiverr thinks it figured out the model… by going all-in on generative artificial intelligence. The freelance marketplace, which connects users to workers in all sorts of categories (think […]
Breaking news: HBO‘s Real Time host Bill Maher will not be receiving this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the prestigious comedy award handed out each year by The Kennedy Center. However, The Atlantic […]
CBS News is undergoing layoffs, as editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski seek to remake the broadcast news division. The executives announced the cuts Friday morning, telling staff that it is a “difficult day” […]
The local TV giant Nexstar closed its $6.2 billion takeover of rival Tegna on Thursday, creating a TV station behemoth after the Department of Justice and FCC signed off on the mega-deal. “This transaction is […]
On Wednesday, Bob Iger’s office on Disney‘s Burbank studio lot was cleared out for Josh D’Amaro, who got his formal start as CEO right as the closely-watched annual shareholder meeting began. That Iger’s things were […]
Tubi, the free ad-supported streaming platform owned by Fox Corp., is continuing to double down on creator-led content. The latest deal? A partnership with TikTok, which will give selected creators on that platform a pathway […]
In his first public comments as CEO of The Walt Disney Co., Josh D’Amaro threw a little bit of shade at the competition. “Simply put, while others in our industry are consolidating just to compete, […]
Dear Fellow Employees and Cast Members, More than 40 years ago, my family took me to Disneyland for the first time. One of the first attractions we rode was Peter Pan’s Flight, inspired by the […]
MS NOW is overhauling its lineup from morning through night, moving anchors around and adjusting time periods as the Versant-owned cable channel prepares to cover the looming 2026 midterm elections. MS NOW president Rebecca Kutler […]
As NBC News ramps up its subscription streaming product, it is beginning to turn to independent journalists and creators to help it maintain relevance in key areas. The broadcast news division on Tuesday announced a […]
WTSL, the Silver Lake-backed investment firm led by Patrick Whitesell, is getting into the management business, bringing on former WME Sports co-head Josh Pyatt to launch the new division, WIN Artists. Pyatt will also be […]
As Paramount was closing in on a deal to pry Warner Bros. Discovery away from Netflix, a surprise bid was lobbed in from a mysterious Singaporean firm offering $32.50 per share for the entertainment company. […]
Dana Walden has set her leadership team. The incoming president and chief creative officer at The Walt Disney Co. unveiled Disney Entertainment’s new management structure Monday. Walden will move into her new role Wednesday, in […]
If there’s anyone who understands how significantly the cultural impact of talk shows has drifted away from late night and daytime TV to podcasts and YouTube, it would be Conan O’Brien. The former NBC Late […]
CNN became a focal point of a Pentagon briefing on the ongoing conflict in Iran on Friday, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (himself a former cable news host), trashing the news channel from the […]
NBCUniversal’s Peacock is debuting a suite of new products geared toward mobile users, emphasizing the vertical nature of smartphones in a bid to grow engagement with its streaming platform. Before you watch what happens live […]
Apple‘s deal with Formula 1 is only one Grand Prix in, but the tech giant is bullish on what it has seen so far. In a sign of strength for the streaming platform, Apple’s senior […]
The Oscars are sold out. The Walt Disney Co. says that this Sunday’s broadcast of the 98th Academy Awards has officially sold out of advertising inventory, marking a major milestone in the company’s live event […]
Incoming Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro has found his communications chief. The Walt Disney Co. said Thursday that Paul Roeder would be elevated to senior executive VP and chief communications officer, a critical role that oversees […]
The FBI will be getting a little help from the UFC this week. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the mixed martial arts promotion UFC said Thursday that UFC fighters will travel to the FBI […]
Disney+ is launching its short-form vertical video product this week, in what the company teases as “the first scene of the first episode in a multi-season series.” The product, which will adopt the “Verts” moniker […]
The National Football League is once again looking to add new broadcast windows this coming season, including a possible game on Thanksgiving Eve. The NFL, of course, has multiple games on Thanksgiving itself, and in […]
Starz is adopting a so-called “Poison Pill” after the media mogul Byron Allen acquired 10.7 percent of the company last week in a surprise deal. The poison pill, also called a shareholder rights plan, is […]
On March 5, a week after inking a $111 billion deal, Paramount CEO David Ellison and Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav conspicuously lunched in the executive dining room on the Warner Bros. Studio lot, […]
The Walt Disney Co. has found the next chief executive for its lucrative and important experiences division. The company says that Thomas Mazloum, currently president of the Disneyland Resort, will become chairman of Disney Experiences. […]