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With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit signaling it planned to hold the Feb. 1 oral argument in Mozilla vs. the FCC partial government shutdown or no, the FCC Tuesday (Jan. 15) asked the court to instead delay the arguments,...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for the midseason return of “This Is Us” Season 3, which aired Tuesday.) While offering up an overload of emotional information to Pearson family fans back in November, the midseason...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for “The Last Seven Weeks,” Tuesday’s midseason premiere of “This Is Us” Season 3) Well, you got what you wanted Randall Pearson, how does it feel? In the final moments...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
A number of employees at Paramount Network have been laid off as parent company Viacom undergoes a reorganization of its brand groups, TheWrap has learned. The cuts fell across the company’s entertainment networks Comedy Central,...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
Hargray Communications has agreed to purchase the Alabama assets of USA Communications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed The deal, expected to close in early 2019, involves USA Communications systems in Pell City, Ala. and...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
MFM, The Media Financial Management Association today announced its 2019 “People to Watch”honorees, which for the first time is an all-female group. Selected by the editorial board of The Financial Manager(TFM) magazine, MFM’s People to...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
Attorney General nominee William Barr said Tuesday during his Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing that he shared concerns over the "danger" of using tech from Chinese telecoms ZTE and Huawei in U.S. networks. He said when he...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) has been elected chairman of he House Communications Subcommittee. Doyle was the lead legislator on the House attempt to reverse the FCC's deregulatory Restoring Internet Freedom order repealing regs against...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Judge Jeanine Pirro is looking a little blue these days — at least in Jim Carrey’s latest political cartoon. Actor/artist Carrey brought the gavel down on Fox News personality Pirro with his latest artwork on Tuesday, calling...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Fox is bringing former NBC Sports ad sales chief Seth Winter aboard in a similar role. Winter will work under Marianne Gambelli, who will serve as president of ad sales for Fox following the sale of 21st Century Fox’s film and TV...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Matt Walsh has been cast in the lead role in the ABC comedy pilot “Happy Accident.” Penned by “Modern Family” alums Abraham Higginbotham and Jon Pollack, the single-camera comedy centers on two Pittsburgh...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 15, 2019 — Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that 1Tennessee, a broadband internet, TV and telecomm cooperative in Tennessee, has deployed Harmonic's CableOS™ virtualized cable access solution for DOCSIS 3.0...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
The filmmakers of rival Netflix and Hulu documentaries about the failed Fyre Festival are trading fiery accusations of unethical behavior. Hulu got the jump on Netflix by releasing its documentary, “Fyre Fraud,” on Monday,...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
For the first time in the FCC's 28 GHZ spectrum auction, the round-over-round increase in dollars bid across the available three thousand-plus licenses was zero.But the auction did not close because at least one bidder employed a waiver...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
The new year is here — and so is midseason TV. While fall brought with it the returns of your favorite broadcast shows — and the debuts of several new ones — the colder months mark the time when many of those series go...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has filed the opening brief in its challenge to the FCC's conditions on the 2016 Charter-Time Warner Cable (Bright House) merger. CEI challenged the conditions that it said went beyond the FCC's legal...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
CBS has announced a pair of spring premiere dates for new series, “The Code,” and Ava Duvernay’s event series, “The Red Line.” “The Red Line,” from Duvernay and fellow uber-producer Greg...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
Attorney General nominee William Barr told the Senate Tuesday (Jan. 15) he was concerned that the Justice Department's antitrust division was not engaging in some of AT&T-Time Warner's arguments (about why the merger did not violate...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
TBS will bring back its comedy series The Last O.G. for a second season on April 2, the network said Tuesday. The sophomore campaign of the series, which stars Tracy Morgan and Tiffany Haddish, will also feature such guest stars as...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Wait, you still want a “Game of Thrones” Season 8 trailer? That teaser that aired right before the “True Detective” premiere Sunday — which had new footage but not from the new season — wasn’t...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
As expected, Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) has been named ranking member of the House Communications Subcommittee. Latta had chaired the subcommittee, but the gavels traveled to the Democrats for the new Congress following the midterm...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
New York [Jan. 15, 2019] Television’s highest-rated home renovation series of all time—Extreme Makeover: Home Edition—is coming to HGTV, with the network planning to produce 10 fresh episodes. While it has not yet revealed the cast for...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
“This Is Us” Season 3 returns from its midseason hiatus tonight with a new episode — and will soon return with at least one new face, as “ER” and “Timeless” alum Goran Višnjić has been cast in a...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
Start-up virtual pay TV service fuboTV said its user engagement tripled year-over-year in December, with overall connected TV usage up by a factor of 2.5X. The company said average engagement on TVs connected to the internet exceeded 70...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
Attorney General nominee William Barr signaled Tuesday that if he is confirmed he wants the Department of Justice to look into how Silicon Valley giants have gotten that big. Asked by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) whether he thought big was...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) blasted CBS News on Tuesday for not having any black journalists dedicated to covering the 2020 presidential election, with the organization saying in a statement it was “very...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” grew its total viewership 12 percent in 2018, to nearly 1.1 million on average, while rivals Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” and CNN’s “New Day” both saw ratings...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s “The Passage” premiere passed the test last night — not with flying colors, but the series debuted well enough to keep Fox competitive. Though NBC’s “America’s Got Talent:...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
HGTV is bringing back the home improvement series, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” The series, which renovated homes for families that fell on hard times, aired on ABC between 2003 and 2012. HGTV will produce 10 episodes of...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Adam Moss, the longtime editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, will step down after 15 years, the company announced Tuesday. Moss has led editorial at New York Media, whose digital sites include Vulture and The Cut, steering its editorial...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
“Avengers: Infinity War” leads all films in nominations for the Visual Effects Society’s 17th Annual VES Awards, which were announced on Tuesday. The Marvel movie received six nominations, one more than “Ready...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
ESPN will throw its hat into the pay-per-view boxing ring in April when it teams with boxing promoter Top Rank Inc. for the Terence Crawford-Amir Kahn welterweight championship fight. The April 20 Crawford-Kahn fight marks the first time...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
Netflix stock rose more than 6% in early trading Tuesday, after the streaming video pioneer said it would raise monthly prices for service between 13% and 18% for all U.S., subscribers, which should help offset its costs for original...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Teen Courtney Hadwin made her “America’s Got Talent: The Champions” debut Monday night — and debuted her very first original song while she was at it. When the Season 13 finalist took the stage — after a...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
Attorney General nominee William Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that he would not allow partisan politics to enter into Justice's special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian election meddling, or any other...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
(Northfield, IL and Los Angeles, CA) - January 7, 2019 – Media Financial Management Association (MFM)and Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) have joined forces to offer an Entertainment Finance Conference(EFC) on Thursday, February 25...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Netflix is increasing its subscription prices again, with the company’s Standard package bumping up 18 percent from $10.99 per month to $12.99 per month on Tuesday. The company’s Premium plan, which includes up to four HD...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Thirty one years after his death, esteemed author James Baldwin has been nominated for his first Hollywood award. Baldwin is now a nominee for the 31st Annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, an honor that recognizes both the author of an...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
John Kasich has joined CNN as a contributor, the network told TheWrap on Tuesday. The former Republican Ohio governor has emerged as one of President Trump’s fiercest critics on cable news and is frequently speculated as a possible...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Washington Post media analyst Margaret Sullivan offered a broad defense of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday, lauding the freshman lawmaker for running rings around her critics online and suggesting the attacks on her...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
We’re still six months out from “Avengers 4,” but we can breathe a sigh of relief knowing Peter Parker will somehow rebound after being finger-snapped out of existence in “Avengers: Infinity War.”...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Carol Channing, who originated the role of Dolly Levi in “Hello Dolly!” and Lorelei Lee in “Gentlemen Prefer Blonds” on Broadway, has died at age 97. The Oscar-nominated actress died early Tuesday morning just...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from RSS Feed
Hoboken, NJ; January 15, 2019 – OpenVault, a global provider of industry analytics and technology solutions for broadband operators, today announced that TKS is using multiple OpenVault solutions to gain greater insights into broadband...Tuesday, January 15, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
In a rare network crossover, “Drunk History” co-creator and host Derek Waters showed up on Monday night’s episode of “They Daily Show” for a guest sketch called “Trump History” that looked at...Monday, January 14, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
It’s pilot season — when broadcast networks decide which of dozens of prospective shows should become full-fledged series. TheWrap’s complete network pilot guide will keep you up to speed on the status of every project...Monday, January 14, 2019 from RSS Feed
It looks as though oral argument in the Mozilla et al. challenge to the FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom order rollback, Title II-based network neutrality regulations and the Title II classification itself will proceed as planned Feb. 1....Monday, January 14, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
NBC has picked up the pilot “Council of Dads” from “Doubt” creators and former “Grey’s Anatomy” showrunners Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, the network announced Monday. Based on the 2010 memoir by...Monday, January 14, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Last month, Netflix touted that more than 45 million accounts watched at least 70 percent of the Sandra Bullock-led film “Bird Box,” an eye-opening figure that represented its best viewership for any film (according to the...Monday, January 14, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
The third season of HBO’s “True Detective” premiered Sunday night with two back-to-back episodes, the first grabbing 1.4 million total viewers at 9 p.m. and the second 1.2 million at 10, according to Live + Same Day...Monday, January 14, 2019 from TheWrap » TV
Ryan Murphy has announced 10 actors who will star in his upcoming Netflix drama “Ratched,” including Judy Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Sharon Stone and Corey Stoll. Also joining the cast of the “One Flew Over the...