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- August 31
- August 30
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- New Conference Alignments, Expanded Playoffs Mark Changes for Upcoming College Football Season
- ‘The Fall Guy’ and Its ‘Extended Cut’ Both Drop on Peacock
- College Football Action, U.S. Open Tennis Coverage: What’s On This Weekend in TV Sports (Aug. 31-Sept. 2)
- Paris Olympics Account for 43% of Ad-Spending Growth in July
- August 29
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- NBC Sports Chicago Sets Special Marking 20-Year History
- The CW Shares Start Dates For ‘Scrabble’, ‘Trivial Pursuit’, ‘Superman & Lois’, ‘The Wranglers’
- Amazon Rebrands Its Freevee Titles on Fire TVs -- Could This Spell the End For the Freevee Brand?
- The CW Sets NASCAR Xfinity Series Schedule
- Comcast Customers Lose Big Ten Network Access to Pac-12 Refugees
- ‘Inside the NFL’ Has New Night, New Philosophy, New Analyst
- Great American Media Launches Pure Flix Premium Product
- August 28
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- Gotham Sports App Unites Yankees, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Devils, Islanders and Sabres Under One $42-a-Month DTC Roof
- Three Episodes From ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ on Prime Video August 29
- Aaron Silverman Named Executive Producer on ‘ABC News Live First’
- Nikki Glaser To Host Golden Globes on CBS in January
- Sports Talk Radio Star Danny Parkins Is Ready for His TV Close-Up on FS1
- Groundhog Day: Just Like Last Year, Disney Pay TV Blackout Imperils Football's Opening Weekend for Millions of Viewers
- Netflix Takes Shot at Sports Documentary Series Featuring NBA Stars LeBron James, Anthony Edwards
- MSNBC, CNN Ride Democratic National Convention Coverage to Top of Primetime Chart
- ‘Bad Monkey,’ ‘Emily in Paris’ Repeat Atop TVision Power Score Rankings
- August 27
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- ‘The Union’ Locks in Strong Second Week — Netflix Weekly Rankings for August 19-25
- NHL’s Anaheim Ducks Join the Bally Sports Exodus
- Anaheim Ducks Do Carriage Deal With Victory Plus, KCOP Los Angeles
- Amid Increase in Commitments, Some Forecast Trouble Brewing for Netflix's Ad Business
- Bill Anderson, KRQE Albuquerque General Manager, Has Died
- Comcast Begins to Sunset CableCARD
- Paley Center Hosts Presidential Election Program
- ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Back for Season 4; 'The Lord of The Rings: Rings of Power’ Returns to Prime Video: What’s Premiering This Week (Aug. 26-Sept. 2)
- Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s Bid for Paramount Fades to Black
- August 26
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- Amazon Pulls Back From $115 Million Bally Sports Investment
- Tier-2 Troubles: WOW! Gets Downgraded by S&P Again
- ESPN Revamps Content Group, Names Mike McQuade EVP
- Comedy Central Sets September Premiere Date for ‘Everybody Still Hates Chris’
- Morgan Murphy Merging Newsrooms at Stations in Marquette, Mich.
- BrightLine Study Shows Streaming Ads Get Boost From Interactivity
- August 25
- August 23
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- Season 2 of ‘Shaq’s Garage’ Set To Stream on Kartoon Channel
- College Football Regular Season Kicks Off; NFL Preseason Concludes: What’s On This Weekend in TV Sports (Aug. 24-25)
- ‘Criminal Record’ Gets Second Season on Apple TV Plus
- Sunday Mystery Matinee Added to FETV Lineup
- Toyota Returns as Presenting Sponsor of NBCU’s Paralympic Games
- Streaming Powers Primetime Gains in Upfront Despite Linear Weakness, Media Dynamics Says
- August 22
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- Charter Puts Ad-Supported Paramount Plus into Its Most Popular Spectrum Pay TV Bundles
- More than 18% of U.S. Broadband Users Consume More than 1 TB of Data Each Month
- ‘Drew Barrymore’ Renewed Through Season 6 on CBS-Owned Stations
- Hearst’s Very Local Premieres ‘My Perfect Day,’ Hosted by Meaghan Murphy on Aug. 22
- Nexstar Stations Become CW Affiliates in 5 Markets
- Diverse Media Alliance Launches, Led by Ad-Tech Company Mirriad
- Dentsu To Target Sports Viewers Working With Sports Innovation Lab
- FreeWheel Names Kris Magel Head of Global Agency Partnerships
- August 21
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- Disney Names James Gorman Head of Succession Committee
- How NBCU Smartly Leveraged Social Media to Drive Olympics Viewership
- Warner Bros To Pay $8.5 Billion for Nevada Studio … Under One Condition
- Viamedia Integrates Its Parrot Ad Decisioning System With Minerva
- Christina Hager Signs Off at WBZ Boston After 25 Years
- TCL Names Finalists for AI TV/Film Accelerator Program
- Adam Krueger Named Chief Meteorologist at KTTV Los Angeles
- Peacock Added 2.8 Million Signups During the Olympics, Research Company Says
- Weekly Cable Ratings: Fox News Stays Hot; NFL Network Tackles Third Place in Primetime
- DirecTV Programming Chief: The Venu Sports Guys 'Got Caught With Their Hands in The Cookie Jar in a Big Way'
- Verance Offers Watermarking Technology to Combat Deep Fakes
- ‘Bad Monkey’ on Apple TV Plus Tops TVision Power Score Rankings
- August 20
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- Democrats Draw Bigger Crowd: DNC Averages Over 20 Million Viewers on First Night, Outpaces Last Month's RNC
- Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry's 'Union' Draws A Crowd -- Netflix Weekly Rankings for August 12-18
- ‘Bad Sisters’ is Back in November
- Netflix's Older Seasons Average an 86% Viewership Boost When New Episodes Drop
- Comcast NBCUniversal, NBCUniversal Local Award $2.5 Million in Non-Profit Grants
- Matthew Lillard Hosts ‘Killer Cakes’ Competition Series on Prime
- Netflix Says It Closed Upfront With 150% Increase in Sales
- tvScientific Gets Patent for CTV Outcome Optimization
- Edgar Bronfman Makes $4.3 Billion Bid For Paramount
- Paris Olympics Boost TV Viewing In July, Nielsen Says
- August 19
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- ‘Pachinko’ Returns to Apple TV Plus: What’s Premiering This Week (August 19-25)
- Cox Communications Takes Copyright Infringement Battle to the Supreme Court
- ESPN Price Per Subscriber Still $9.42
- Amazon to Hoist the 13th Global Iteration of 'The Office,' This One Set in Australia
- Dabl Network Celebrates ‘The Parkers’ Birthday With Marathon
- Talk-Show Host Phil Donahue Dies at 88
- Almin Karamehmedovic Named ABC News President
- GSTV Brings Student Road Safety Films to Gas Pumps
- Joseph Holloway Joins WOI Des Moines as ‘Good Morning Iowa’ Anchor and EP
- August 18
- August 16
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- CBS News Sees Third Hour of ‘CBS Mornings’ Arriving in September
- MTV Renews ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ for 17th Season
- Venu Sports JV Put in Peril as Judge Grants Fubo’s Request for Preliminary Injunction
- Warner Bros. Discovery Cable Nets Chief Kathleen Finch Is Leaving
- WNBA Season Resumes, Premier League Season Kicks Off: What’s on This Weekend in TV Sports (August 17-18)
- Nexstar Fraudulently Collected $10.5 Million in Fees from DirecTV, Appeals Court Rules
- TelevisaUnivision To Air MLB Games Starting This Season
- Pluto TV Adds Local News From Fox Stations
- August 15
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- Disney Poaches YouTube Subscription Exec Adam Smith for Chief Product and Technology Officer Role
- Q2 Cord-Cutting Update: Most U.S. Operators Bled Fewer Customers, But Revenue Is Beginning To Take a Serious Hit
- NBC Eyes 3-Pointer by Airing Pilot of Peacock’s ‘Mr. Throwback’ with Steph Curry
- Nielsen Set To Add Big Data to Local Ratings in All Markets Starting in January
- ‘Fitting the Romantic Vibe’: Lifetime’s Elaine Frontain Bryant Touts Launch of ‘Terry McMillan Presents’ Movie Banner (Q&A)
- WNBA Tips Off Second Half of Regular Season on a Ratings Roll
- ESPN Makes Deal with Genius Sport To Add Data to Hoops Telecasts
- Cineverse Posts $3.2 Million Loss in Fiscal First Quarter
- Consumers Put Trust in Family-Friendly Streamers, Says Future Today Report
- Viewers Still Watch Linear TV and Addressable Ads Help Marketers Reach Them, Go Addressable Study Asserts
- August 14
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- MyBundle Strikes Deal for Free Roku Remotes
- ‘Family Guy’ Joins Comedy Central
- CBS News’ ‘48 Hours’ Gets 24-Hour Free Streaming Channel
- Netflix Renews Guy Ritchie's 'The Gentlemen' For a Second Season
- Venu Sports Faces Very Real Prospect of Preliminary Injunction
- NHL's Florida Panthers Sign ViewLift to Take Them DTC
- Weekly Cable Ratings: Fox News Continues Primetime Dominance
- Infillion Launches IDVx Interactive Video-Ad Capabilities
- Two New Netflix Shows Top TVision Power Score Rankings
- Scripps Names Jeff Mulligan Station Manager at KSHB Kansas City
- Netflix Renews Sci-Fi Series ‘Supacell’
- August 13
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- A Rainy Day for 'The Umbrella Academy' -- Netflix Weekly Rankings for August 5-11
- Death Spiral? EchoStar’s Already-Hammered Stock Has Dropped 14% Since Friday’s Earnings Report
- FX Sets September Premiere for Ryan Murphy Horror Series ‘Grotesquerie’
- ‘There’s Really Nothing Like It:’ ‘The Challenge’ EP Julie Pizzi Gears Up for Series’ 40th Season (Content Spotlight Podcast)
- Paramount Begins First Wave of Employee Layoffs
- NBCU Says Olympics Delivered 36.6 Million Viewers in Primetime
- FreeWheel Unleashes CTV Performance-Marketing Tools
- iSpot Gets Joint Industry Council’s Certification for New Cross-Media Methodology
- Peacock Sets Oct. 18 Premiere Date for ‘Hysteria!’
- August 12
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- Dick Vitale To Join 2024 B+C Hall of Fame Class
- Hearst’s Very Local Streaming Service Hit by Layoffs
- Dish and Sling TV Revenue Collapses, Down a Record 10% in Q2
- COO Lisa Knutson Out at Scripps as Stock Price Dives 10%
- MTV Moves VMAs to Sept. 11 To Avoid Conflict With Presidential Debate
- Peacock’s ‘Bel-Air,’ Netflix’s ‘Emily in Paris’ Return to Streaming Audiences: What’s Premiering This Week (Aug. 12-18)
- Charter Names Simon Cassels Senior VP, Chief Creative Officer
- Local News Close-Up: California’s Capital Is a Vast and Varied Market
- BranchLab Adds Errol Taylor as Advisor with Additional States Making Pharma Marketing More Difficult
- Gray Renews CW Affiliations in 38 Markets, or 10% of U.S.
- Dream Team’s Win Brings Ratings Gold for NBC, Peacock
- Coach Prime Is for the Birds In New Commercial for DirecTV
- August 11
- August 9
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- Hispanic Television Summit Focuses on How Latinos Are Reflected on Screens
- ‘Chattin’ With Chelsea’ Debuts on KRIV Houston August 26
- ‘Stranger Things’ Comes to Broadway in 2025
- Paris Summer Olympics Close; NFL Preseason Begins: What’s on This Weekend in TV Sports (Aug. 10-11)
- EchoStar Posts Q2 Loss as It Sheds 104,000 Pay TV Subscribers
- DirecTV Stream Brings Back Discounts for Sports Fans as Football Season Starts
- AMC Networks Posts Q2 Loss on Impairment Charges
- Scripps Sees Progress Towards Selling Off Bounce TV Network
- August 8
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- Paramount Claims $1 Billion In Upfront Streaming Commitments
- Vevo Expands Programmatic Profile Working with Nexxen
- Paramount Reports $5.4 Billion Loss As It Writes Down the Value of its Cable Networks
- CommScope Seeks to Unify Cable's Next-Generation 'DOCSIS 4.0' Network Standard
- Warner Stock Plunges to All-Time Low Following $9 Billion Q2 Write-Down
- Steph Curry Hoops Comedy ‘Mr. Throwback’ Premieres on Peacock
- ReachTV Working With Transmit To Create Ads in Live Sports
- Comcast’s Effectv Adds Capabilities for Political Advertisers
- Gray Sees Lower-Than-Expected Revenues for 2024
- Nexstar Profits Rise as Losses at The CW Shrink
- August 7
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- Crunchyroll Surpasses 15 Million Subscribers
- NBA's New Orleans Pelicans Become the Latest Team to Bolt Bally Sports for a Local Broadcast TV Deal
- Vizio Profit Shrinks Despite Growth in Smart TV Usage
- CBS Hosts ‘Creep LA: Ghosts’ Event to Celebrate Season 4 Premiere of Comedy
- Sinclair Reports $17 Million Profit, Boosted by Election Ad Spending
- Turner Acquires Rights to the Savannah Bananas, Secures Charles Barkley, as It Searches For a Post-NBA Sports Future
- Disney Could Owe an Additional $5 Billion for Hulu if 3rd-Party Appraisal Jibes with NBCU's Valuation
- ‘AGT’: 44 Acts Set for Live Shows on NBC
- Roku to Launch Dedicated FAST Sports Channel
- Madhive Local Ad Clients Get Access to Alliant Audiences
- Weekly Cable Ratings: Fox News Holds Off Olympics-Driven USA To Win in Primetime, Total Day
- Disney Reports $2.6 Billion Net Income as Streaming Turns Profitable in Q3
- ‘Presumed Innocent’ on Apple TV Plus Keeps Top Spot in TVision Power Score Rankings
- Non-Political Local Ad Spending Expected to Grow 5.5% in 2025, Says BIA
- August 6
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- Michael Engleman Stepping Down as CMO at Paramount Plus with Showtime
- Top Streamer Hits an All-Time Viewership Low -- Netflix Weekly Rankings for July 29 - August 4
- Xperi Says 'Top 5' OEM Supplier Will Launch TiVo-Powered Smart TVs in the U.S. Next Spring
- WKAQ Puerto Rico Goes All In on Olympics
- TelevisaUnivision Upfront Attracts Record Number of Advertisers
- Fubo Begins Preliminary Injunction Quest Against Venu Sports as Antitrust Suit’s Hearings Begin
- The Lingering ‘Ed Sullivan Effect’ in the Presidential Race (B+C Guest Blog)
- Taylor Swift Leads VMAs With 10 Nominations
- Trey Durst Promoted To VP, U.S. Distribution at Fremantle
- CBS Holds ‘American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special’ Oct. 6
- Future Evolves B2B Media & Entertainment Group to Focus on High-Impact Initiatives
- Hearst Media Production Group Licenses More Content to Samsung TV Plus
- Fubo Loses 61,000 Subscribers But Reduces Losses in Fourth Quarter
- Wurl Study Finds 4% of CTV Viewers Tune Out Each Minute During Ad Breaks
- Google TV Streamer Gets Official Price, Release Date
- Nielsen, Innovid To Collaborate on Simplifying Cross-Media Advertising
- As Back-to-School Season Starts, EDO Rates Walmart As Most Effective Convergent TV Advertiser Among Department Stores
- Fox Q4 Net Income Dips to $319 Million
- August 5
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- No 'Disasters' Here: Amazon's $300 Million Russo Bros. Series 'Citadel' Is Getting Two Spin-Offs
- NBCU Names Jeanne Mau Exec VP, TV Programming Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Max's New Homepage Aims to Fight Search Fatigue
- Netflix’s ‘The Umbrella Academy,’ Paramount Plus’s ‘SEAL Team’ Launch Final Seasons: What’s Premiering This Week (August 5-11)
- Christa Robinson, CBS News and Stations EVP of Comms, Leaving Company
- Adrienne Roark, Jennifer Mitchell Increase Roles at CBS News and Stations
- Univision Gets Affiliates in Indiana With Family Broadcasting Stations
- Deep Bagchee Joins CNBC As International President
- Viamedia Becomes Programmatic Sales Rep for News of the World
- August 4
- August 2
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- KCTV Kansas City Names Kerrigan Arnold Co-Host of ‘My KC Live’
- Scripps Promotes John Cook to GM of KTNV Las Vegas
- KDFW-KDFI Dallas Moving to Irving
- Vizio Looks To Score With Live Exclusive Women’s Cup Coverage
- Paris Olympics Continue; ESPN Laces Up for Crawford-Madrimov Fight: What’s On This Weekend in TV Sports (Aug. 3-4)
- Judge Tosses $4.7 Billion 'Sunday Ticket' Antitrust Verdict Against the NFL
- That’s All Folks: Warner Bros. Discovery to Shut Down Boomerang Streaming Service
- August 1
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- Roku Beats Forecasts in Q2, Sales Grow 14% to $968 Million
- U.S. Subscription Streaming Had Its Most Watched Week Ever Over the July 4 Holiday, Nielsen Says
- Disney Says Upfront Sales Were Up 5% to Record Levels
- NBCU Gets Pleasant Surprise With Daytime Olympic Viewing
- Senate Committee Moves To Provide ACP with $7 Billion … but Ted Cruz Stands in the Way
- Amanda Seyfried Lined Up To Host NBCU Local Clear the Shelters Special
- Tony Goncalves, Former WarnerMedia Exec, Joins Mediaprobe as Adviser
- 50 Cent for Free: Lionsgate Starts FAST Channel With Rapper
- Spectrum Teams With EverPass To Bring NFL Sunday Ticket, Peacock Sports Pass to Bars, Restaurants
- Baseball Star Aaron Judge Dogs It With ‘Rubble & Crew’
- Venu Sports Stays Below vMVPD Partners on Price
- John Dickerson, Maurice DuBois To Anchor ‘CBS Evening News’ After Norah O’Donnell Steps Down
- Carrie Underwood Joins ‘American Idol’ Judges’ Panel
- Gray Media Launches Palmetto Sports & Entertainment Network on South Carolina Stations
- Altice USA Earnings Fall in Q2 Amid Broadband, Video Subscriber Losses
- Comscore Clients Get Access to Comcast’s Signal Authentication
- 'Squid Game' Season 2 Finally Gets Premiere Date ... More Than Three Years After Season 1 Dropped
- ‘Apex’ Predator Feeds on Media Business Press With Apparent BusinessWire Press-Release Hoax About Rival Paramount Bid
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