Veritone, a specialist in building human-centered enterprise AI solutions, has announced the renewal of its global licensing agreement with CBS News. The multi-year contract expands the partnership to include exclusive local news content from CBS Owned Stations. For over a decade, CBS News and Veritone’s licensing agreement has paved the way for television producers, filmmakers, […]
Channel 4 has commissioned Wonderhood Studios to produce the 4 x 60-minute series The Trial of Michael Jackson (working title). The series will feature contributors who have never spoken before to plot the story of Michael Jackson’s 2005 criminal trial alongside Jackson’s rise to fame and life in the spotlight. It will forensically examine available […]
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has captured nearly three-quarters of all US cable news audiences in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election victory. Fox News’ daily audience has lifted by 40 per cent since November 5th, while viewership of MSNBC and CNN have dropped 38 per cent and 27 per cent respectively, according to Nielsen. Trump’s […]
Broadcasting giant Comcast is spinning off almost all of its cable channels into a new company, including MSNBC, seen by many as a liberal news channel. The others in the bundle include CNBC, USA Network, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and the Golf Channel. It seems Elon Musk, now with a foot in the door of the […]
ITV has announced that Editor of ITV Network News, Andrew Dagnell, has been promoted to lead news and current affairs content across the whole of ITV, reporting to Kevin Lygo. He succeeds long-standing Director of News and Current Affairs Michael Jermey, who will leave ITV at the end of the year. Lygo commented: “I am […]
Love TV Channels, a Spanish start-up specialised in the production of thematic channels, has launched Actualidad 360. The channel will offer 24-hour news and be available free of charge on multiple streaming TV platforms. Actualidad 360 is the first television channel in Spain designed to offer news in collaboration with different agencies and news publishers […]
CNN’s longtime Political Director David Chalian has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Washington, DC Bureau Chief, the network announced today. In his expanded role, Chalian will now oversee the network’s Washington DC bureau as well as CNN’s Washington political news coverage. He will continue to supervise CNN’s daily political reporting across all platforms, […]
Comercio TV, the premier Spanish-language financial news network, has announced a partnership with FAST Channels TV to bring its unique programming to a global audience through a new FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channel. Comercio TV will deliver high-quality financial news, market insights, and educational content in Spanish, tailored to empower Hispanic audiences in the […]
How did he do that? A question asked many times about Donald Trump, now to be the 47th President of the US, having already been the 45th. It turns out he’s better at politics than business. When that question is asked about him in the business world, it usually relates to how did he lose […]
Krafty Entertainment, a London-based production and digital distribution company, has announced its acquisition of a 17.5 per cent equity stake in Sports First TV, the global sports news TV channel. Sports First TV, which launched in March on FAST platforms in North America, was founded by Frank Brown, the former CEO of Viacom International Media/MTV […]