Jemele Hill will lead a sports newsmagazine program called “Above the Fold” for the TNT Sports evening lineup on TruTV, broadening out the network’s nighttime portfolio as parent company Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a bigger foothold in regular sports programming. Hill, a popular commentator on sports and culture and a former ESPN anchor, will launch […]

David Muir will have a new top producer behind the scenes of ABC News’ “World News Tonight.” Chris Dinan, who has worked as the senior broadcast producer of the evening-news program, has been named executive producer of the series. He replaces Almin Karamehmedovic, who wasin August named president of ABC News. Dianan will report to […]

CBS News’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday delivered something in addition to its regular newsmagazine segments. The program offered a message to former President Trump and a host of critics who have castigated the long-running news series for the way in which it edited a recent interview with Vice President Kamala Harris so that she appeared […]

FanDuel is getting into the chaotic world of regional sports TV. The online gaming giant will be able to crown the 16 regional sports networks operated by Diamond Sports Group with its moniker, wiping away the Bally Sports nomenclature that has been present on these regional sports outlets for the past few years. The networks […]

Jimmy Fallon is headed back to the gridiron. The late-night host will host a new episode of NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Sunday, November 17, following the network’s broadcast that evening of a “Sunday Night Football” match-up between the New York Jets and the Indianapolis Colts. Local news will air between the […]

Brian Williams is gearing up to hold forth on Election Night, and even though he is no longer with NBC News, seems poised to hold forth from the early evening to the 11th hour during the national spectacle. Williams, who left NBC News in 2021 after a nearly three-decade run, will lead a one-night special […]

Amazon continues to expand commercial inventory on its Prime Video streaming service, unveiling new plans to make ads available on the platform in 2025 in Brazil, India, Japan, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. The company unveiled its plans Tuesday at an industry conference it organized.  Prime Video ads are already made available in Australia, Austria, […]

Dan Lovinger, who supervised an increasingly complex Olympics ad-sales effort for NBCUniversal and delivered what is believed to be a record level of Madison Avenue sponsorship for the recent Paris Olympics, is leaving the company as it seeks to revamp its efforts to lure advertisers to sports. NBCU in 2022 assigned Lovinger to a new […]

Each year, Spanish-speaking sports fans can usually find one Spanish-language simulcast of the Super Bowl. This year, there will be two. Fox Corp.’s Fox Deportes and NBCUniversal’s Telemundo will each produce separate broadcasts of Super Bowl LIX in 2025, the companies said Monday, in an unusual arrangement. The move gives NBCU a chance to generate […]

Memo to CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil: Looks like the boss has your back (at least for now). Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global, in some of her last days in that role, reprimanded executives at CBS News for telling staffers earlier this week that a sharp exchange on “CBS Mornings” between Dokoupil […]

Fox News Media wants to habla with more viewers. The Fox Corp. unit plans to launch “Fox Noitcias,” a new one-hour Spanish-language program for the Fox Deportes cable outlet. The show is billed as a forum that “spotlights issues impacting the Hispanic community,” and will be hosted by Rachel Campos-Duffy, one of the co-hosts of […]

Nexstar Media is cutting the ribbon that tied together its ad packaging strategy. The TV-station giant is eliminating its chief revenue officer position, noting in a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it would favor “a more streamlined organizational structure.” He is expected to leave Nexstar on October 30. “Nexstar can […]

Errol Barnett, a veteran of CBS and CNN, will take up morning-anchor duties at 7 a.m. on CBS 24/7, the CBS News live-streaming hub. His tenure in the hour will start Monday. Barnett appeared Friday morning as the hour’s current anchor, Anne-Marie Green, bid farewell. She is moving to “48 Hours.” “I know the show […]

Jon Steinlauf, an industry veteran who has supervised ad sales for Warner Bros. Discovery since it was formed in 2022 as well as several of its predecessor companies, including the Scripps cable networks, will leave the company later this year. “We are very grateful for all Jon has done for us, and while supportive of […]

While working as an executive producer at Fox News Channel, Justin Wells oversaw some of the cable-news outlet’s most controversial segments, as well as many hours of documentary programming crafted expressly for its Fox Nation streaming service. Now he wants to offer his expertise to less partisan media companies. Wells, who helped build and run […]

Donald Trump is turning up his nose at ’60 Minutes’ once again. The former president, who walked out of an interview with correspondent Lesley Stahl in 2020 amid the last presidential campaign, has cancelled an exchange he was scheduled to make on a special edition of the venerable CBS News newsmagazine for Monday night — […]

CNN on Tuesday morning will take its second swing at trying to boost revenue from streaming video and digital content. Most users of CNN.com will likely see no change in the experience they have each time they visit CNN.com, one of the biggest news sites in digital media. Heavy users, however, will be asked to […]

Charles Barkley is getting ready to take on a brand new game. The basketball great, whose talent on the court and behind the camera was established during 16 seasons in the NBA and nearly a quarter-century as an analyst for Warner Bros. Discovery, wants to get into the business of producing a broader range of […]

With just hours to go before its CBS television network televises what is certain to be a heavily watched debate between two candidates for Vice President of the United States, Paramount Global said late Monday night that its contract with Nielsen for audience measurement has expired — part of a broader dispute between the company […]