Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Stephen Colbert has, nearly every weeknight for the past 15 months, led the nation’s most-watched late-night show without many of the trappings viewers have come to expect. He’s had no l…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:22AMMonday, June 14, 2021
Madison Avenue’s interest in digital ads, sports and new concepts tied to bolstering messages of diversity helped Disney close a fast-paced upfront that saw more than 40% of total dollars …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:21PMThursday, June 3, 2021
At least three of the nation’s big media companies are writing deals in an upfront ad-sales market that is moving more rapidly than in years past. Disney, NBCUniversal and Fox have all beg…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:59PMFriday, May 14, 2021
A whopping amount of money that has been held in trust for potential payout to former CBS chief Leslie Moonves is going back to the company. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PMThursday, May 13, 2021
Disney is in discussions with the NFL about possibly picking up the “Sunday Ticket” franchise that has been a pillar of DirecTV for years. Disney CEO Bob Chapek said during the company�…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:45PMIn the space of just a few weeks, a group of Madison Avenue heavyweights — with names like General Motors, Interpublic Group and WPP — has made public guarantees of ad money for some of …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
NBC started broadcasting “Saturday Night Live” live across the U.S in 2017. Now the network is preparing to live stream the show around the world. The network said tonight’s broadcast,…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:18PMWednesday, April 14, 2021
Kimberly Godwin, a veteran of local and national TV-news operations, will be the next president of ABC News — and the first Black executive to run a broadcast-network news operation. Dis…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45PMTuesday, April 6, 2021
Disney’s search for a new leader for ABC News continues weeks after the company unexpectedly disclosed the former president, James Goldston, would leave the post. Goldston’s last day cam…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:13PMFriday, March 26, 2021
Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, alleging that the Fox Corporation-backed cable outlet made false claims about the company’s actions and in…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PMThursday, March 18, 2021
The Super Bowl is the TV industry’s biggest annual event. What if it became several? Walt Disney is considering a Super Bowl “mega-cast” that could create different broadcasts of the g…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:10PMWednesday, March 17, 2021
Madison Avenue is paying more money to podcasting. Now a group of people focused on the industry wants advertisers to pay more attention. The Media Roundtable, a group of organizations that …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PMThursday, March 4, 2021
Brian Robbins walked into a meeting where executives were deciding whether kids-media giant Nickelodeon should pick up “SpongeBob SquarePants” for a twelfth cycle, and asked what he thou…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:41AMTuesday, March 2, 2021
The company that usually talks to advertisers about properties like “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Get Up!” and Goofy spent some time last week chatting with them about technologies that wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:12AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
Shares in Walt Disney Co. rose for a second straight day as investors were encouraged by its official launch of a new streaming-video service aimed at consumers of general entertainment in E…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:37PMSunday, February 7, 2021
After driving “Thunder Road” for decades, Bruce Springsteen is taking a detour on Madison Avenue. The musician known as “The Boss” will command two minutes of commercial time in Supe…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:17PMThursday, March 7, 2019
When Verizon wanted to speak to viewers of the recent Oscars broadcast in Spanish, ABC had to change its rules to make it happen. Now the Disney-owned network is willing to do it again. The …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:20AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Nickelodeon is whistling for one of TV’s most famous dogs to come home and win over a new generation of kiddie viewers. It’s not Rin-Tin-Tin or Lassie, nor it is Brian Griffin or Trium…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMFriday, January 26, 2018
E-sports are coming to ESPN2 and other Disney properties as part of a new deal brokered between Electronic Arts, the National Football League and ESPN. Electronic Arts will partner with ES…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AMFriday, December 15, 2017
Walt Disney is likely to gain more traction on Madison Avenue. With an acquisition of a good chunk of 21st Century Fox, Disney takes control over many things it does not currently have. Its …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Comcast chairman Brian Roberts turned heads in 2004, when his cable company launched an unsolicited $54 billion bid for the Walt Disney Co. Today, Roberts no doubt had mixed feelings watch…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:20PMDisney’s $52.4 billion stock deal to acquire a good chunk of 21st Century Fox will give the backer of Disneyland new heft around the globe, including places like Europe and India. But …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:01PMIt’s not a small world, after all. The Walt Disney Company, stocked to the gills with ESPN, the ABC television network, the Pixar studio, and the Marvel superhero franchise, was alread…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:27AMThe Walt Disney Co. has set a $52.4 billion, all-stock deal to acquire 20th Century Fox and other entertainment and sports assets from Rupert Murdoch’s empire. The deal between Disney …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:04AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Shares of 21st Century Fox rose moderately in early trading Tuesday after CNBC added new fuel to speculation that the Murdoch-controlled company would sell a significant chunk of its assets …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:02AMSaturday, December 2, 2017
Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox have re-started more serious discussions that could result in the owner of ABC and ESPN picking up pieces of the empire controlled by the Murdoch family, acc…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:10PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Fox Broadcasting, which enjoyed one of its most successful periods when it aired “American Idol,” said it would make a new foray into the music-competition genre by launchingR…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, October 5, 2017
Walt Disney Company and Altice said they had come to new terms on a carriage deal that will keep ESPN, ABC and Disney Channel, among other networks available to thousands of households in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger spoke out forcefully about the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas, calling the violence a “human tragedy of huge proportion” and noting the incident is in…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PMFriday, September 22, 2017
Disney and the cable company once known as Cablevision are at it again. The two companies, whose fractious carriage negotiations in 2010 resulted in viewers in New York and Connecticut missi…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMSunday, July 23, 2017
Actor and vlogger Jake Paul had a good thing going: a burgeoning audience for his antics on social media and a group of die-hard fans who enjoyed his presence on the kooky Disney Channel pro…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:10PM 
