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PALISADES PARK, N.J. – March 25, 2019 – Alfred Haber, President of Alfred Haber Television, Inc., announced today that the company has secured the exclusive international distribution television rights to “bublé!”, the brand-new,...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
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President Donald Trump joined Vice President Mike Pence Monday in partly blaming the media for the alleged "witch hunt" Mueller investigation. The Trump/Pence campaign* and the Republican National Committee were using that attack to try...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
Huawei continues to try to head off the momentum for banishing its tech product from U.S. 5G networks. In a filing at the FCC, the Chinese tech company said the government's "overriding" telecom policy goal should be to get mobile...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
The Pay-Per-View Event business is taking a standing eight count after UFC landed a body blow by moving its monthly mixed-martial-arts events exclusively to direct-to-consumer streaming service ESPN+. Distributors such as In Demand,...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
A year after a Spring Snowstorm forced a postponement of the 2018 T. Howard Diversity Awards Dinner in New York from March to May, the organization is gearing up for sunny skies at its event this week. The diversity organization, which...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
At The Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, producer Tanya Saracho illustrated how the industry is beginning to embrace the presence of women behind the camera. “All my directors were female; both of my [directors of...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
BLOOMBERG Bloomberg Television has elevated Rachel Wehrspan to head of TV, U.S., responsible for all U.S. editorial. She had been executive producer of Bloomberg Surveillance and Bloomberg Daybreak Americas. DISCOVERY Keith Kazerman has...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
The Walt Disney Co.’s months-long effort to sell 22 regional sports networks might be getting close to wrapping up, now that Disney’s deadline clock has formally begun. Disney said it would sell the RSNs as a condition to winning federal...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
Fox Corp. threw a brief scare into investors shortly after it completed its long-brewing $71.3 billion asset sale to The Walt Disney Co., with a securities filing warning that the newly lean programmer expects a “meaningful deceleration”...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
Nexstar Media Group — edging toward approval of the $6.4 billion purchase of Tribune Media stations that will make it the biggest U.S. TV station group — has taken a key step by agreeing to sell 19 stations in two separate all-cash...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
WASHINGTON — Calls from the nation’s capital to break up, shake up or simply regulate edge providers have been building at a fever pitch, but the Justice Department has been taking some of the edge off those rhetorical thrusts. NCTA–The...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
A group trying to restore the former net neutrality rules is looking to raise money via attacks on what they see as recalcitrant Democrats who have remained neutral, so far, on the hot-button issue of bringing back internet regulation....Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
WASHINGTON — Cable and broadband telcos are offering up different approaches to revised broadband mapping as the Federal Communications Commission and National Telecommunications & Information Administration try to figure out a...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
Jesus: his life begins on History March 25. The eight-part series looks at Jesus the man, not Jesus the Messiah. Each episode is told from the perspective of someone who knew him, including mother Mary, father Joseph, John the Baptist,...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
The increasingly jammed late-night arena is getting another major player this summer, when David Spade steps onstage for a new 11:30 show on Comedy Central. Though it doesn’t have a title or format settled just yet, this much we do know...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
The Trump presidency continues to redefine the role of the U.S. commander in chief. Congress still bickers like The Lockhorns. School shootings continue. One cannot help but wonder where Jon Stewart is amidst all this madness. “In many...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
On Monday (March 25), Apple is expected to finally unveil its long-awaited video streaming platform at a press conference at its Cupertino, California, headquarters, an event many believed would feature some big-name celebrity talent...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
Momentum has been building for some time for the Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) and 2019 was expected to be the year it would start to scale in the market. This technology is expected to transform cable operators’ infrastructure...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
AT&T and Viacom said early Monday that they had reached a carriage deal for the programmer’s networks, avoiding a blackout of more than 24 million AT&T customers across four platforms. Viacom’s carriage deal officially expired...Monday, March 25, 2019 from RSS Feed
The last season debut of HBO’s Emmy award-winning series Veep headlines a busy week of show premieres. The sixth and final season of the multi-Emmy winning series Veep, which stars Julia Louise Dreyfus as politician Selina Meyer, debuts...Sunday, March 24, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
(MAJOR spoilers ahead for the March 24 episode of “The Walking Dead” on AMC) (No really, we’ve got huge spoilers below) Wow. With only one episode remaining in season 9, “The Walking Dead” just hit us with...Sunday, March 24, 2019 from RSS Feed
Broadcast and cable nets, with the exception of CBS, broke into regular programming Sunday afternoon to report the news that, according to Attorney General Bill Barr's letter to Congress, there was no evidence President Donald Trump or...Sunday, March 24, 2019 from RSS Feed
As expected, the FCC's 24 GHz spectrum auction blew past the $1 billion mark Friday (March 22) only seven business days after it began (March 14). The total as of round 20 was $1,093,9921,875. By comparison, the previous high-band...Sunday, March 24, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
How do you take the measure of 4,000 jobs lost in an industry with the size and scope of Hollywood? That’s the number of pink slips being handed by Disney to Fox employees now that the merged mega-studio won’t need them...Sunday, March 24, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
For almost as long as we’ve been hearing about “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino and Sony Pictures, which will release the film, have tried to dispel the notion that it will be all about the Manson...Saturday, March 23, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Ariana Grande was the big winner at the 2019 Kids’ Choice Awards, picking up Favorite Female Artist and best song for her hit “Thank U, Next.” “Avengers: Infinity War” also won multiple awards, as did Adam...Saturday, March 23, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
More than 750 screenwriters and showrunners, including Alfonso Cuarón, Kenya Barris, Tina Fey and Adam McKay, have signed a letter supporting the Writers Guild of America in its battle against and the Association of Talent Agents over...Saturday, March 23, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Last month, surgeon Phil Mercado and Hollywood executive Todd Quinn invited over 100 of their richest and most influential friends to sip beer, drink wine, and try to fall in love. Not in a romantic sense, but with a presidential...Saturday, March 23, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
It’s felt at times like season 44 of “SNL” has lasted an extraordinarily long time just because of how slowly time feels like it moves these days, but we’re actually approaching the end of the season — as...Saturday, March 23, 2019 from RSS Feed
Viacom’s nearly two dozen channels were still available to AT&T customers Saturday, hours after a midnight carriage deadline passed without a deal. Viacom networks like MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon were set to go dark at...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Barbra Streisand said in an interview that while she believes the two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in the documentary “Leaving Neverland,” she also has some sympathy for Jackson. In a wide-ranging Times of...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on possible Russian interference in the 2016 election is in — and so is Jim Carrey’s latest artistic assessment of the political landscape. Shortly after Mueller submitted his...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
When Disney executives visit the Fox lot in Century City, the home of their newly acquired TV and film studios, they’re greeted by a big new banner that says “Welcome to Fox” and doors newly painted with the word...Friday, March 22, 2019 from RSS Feed
AT&T and Viacom executives were hunkered down late Friday at DirecTV’s El Segundo, Calif., headquarters, trying to hammer out a carriage deal for AT&T’s four distribution platforms and avoid a blackout of the programmer’s two...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Dana Walden, the newly-entrenched chairman of ABC Entertainment and Disney Television Studios, attempted to rally her new staff on Friday, amid company-wide layoffs following the close of the Disney-Fox merger. “I am almost...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
DirecTV could lose its exclusive rights to its NFL Sunday Ticket package, the league’s commissioner Roger Goodell hinted at during an interview on Friday. “We’ve had a 25-year partnership and we want to continue that...Friday, March 22, 2019 from RSS Feed
"Special Report" graphics blanketed screens Friday (March 22) as broadcast and cable news nets dropped regular programming to cover the submission of the "Russia probe" report from special counsel Robert Mueller to the Justice...Friday, March 22, 2019 from RSS Feed
The House Communications Subcommittee has taken the first step toward trying to pass legislation restoring the 2015 Open Internet Order's net neutrality rules. It has scheduled a markup of the Save the Internet Act (HR 1644) for...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav hauled in almost $130 million in 2018, more than tripling his 2017 executive compensation, according to a Friday SEC filing. That huge all-in number was mostly thanks to an enormous increase in...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
“Supernatural” will end with its upcoming 15th season on The CW, TheWrap has learned. The final run of the Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles-led drama will consist of 20 episodes. Padalecki announced the news on behalf of...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
(Updated March 22 with “The Conners” renewed for Season 2 at ABC) It’s that time of year again! As the broadcast networks order pilots and consider new series for their fall slates, they’ve also begun to winnow...Friday, March 22, 2019 from RSS Feed
Sullivan, Missouri-based operator Fidelity Communications said it is upgrading the cable modems and speed of around 19,000 customers to 50 Mbps at no additional charge. These customers, spread across Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
President Donald Trump nominated Stephen Miller, a former CNN contributor and campaign advisor, to the Federal Reserve Board, he announced in a tweet on Friday. “It is my pleasure to announce that @StephenMoore, a very respected...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
“Smash” alum Jack Davenport is set to star opposite “Elementary” actress Lucy Liu on the dark comedic drama series “Why Women Kill” via CBS All Access, a spokesperson for CBS told TheWrap on Friday....Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
HBO has given the greenlight to its long-gestating “Perry Mason” limited series, which will be directed and executive produced by “Boardwalk Empire” alum Tim Van Patten. Matthew Rhys stars as Perry Mason “at...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
United Airlines will now offer passengers non-binary gender booking options, the company announced Friday. The move makes United the first U.S. air carrier to offer options inclusive of gender non-binary flyers. Functionally, the move...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
The layoffs following the Disney-Fox merger have entered their second day and another top Fox TV executive is out. Mark Kaner, president of 20th Century Fox Television Distribution, is the latest senior executive to get notified that he...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Notorious Hollywood fixer and private investigator Anthony Pellicano was released from prison on Friday — his 75th birthday — after serving 15 years at Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution in San Pedro,...Friday, March 22, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Chris Jacobs is joining Josh Gates’ team for Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live,” TheWrap has learned exclusively. Bring a flashlight, Chris. Also added to the squad, we’re told, is...