Saturday, 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 03:10PMMonday, July 17, 2017
Huey, Dewey and Louie have always had things pretty good. They are, after all, Disney characters. But they’ve never had it quite like this. When “Duck Tales,” the long running syndicat…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AMMonday, May 22, 2017
MSNBC and Fox News Channel shook up their primetime schedules in the wake of a tragic explosion outside Manchester Arena during an Ariana Grande concert in the United Kingdom Monday that is …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:49PMThursday, April 27, 2017
Broadway Video is best known for its many famous productions: “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Late Night With Seth Meyers̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMMonday, April 3, 2017
NPR has a new “Morning Edition” at the ready. Starting Wednesday, April 5th, the public broadcaster will release “Up First,” a ten-minute daily news podcast culled f…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, March 16, 2017
After inserting itself into the plot of one of TV’s most-watched dramas in 2015, Pepsi hopes to rule Fox’s “Empire” anew. The popular beverage maker raised eyebrows w…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMThursday, March 2, 2017
TV’s annual upfront sales season isn’t child’s play to the executives who run Nickelodeon. The kids-focused media unit, the largest division of parent Viacom, moves into the TV industr…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
Disney is hoping to find new reason for Sofia the First and K.C. Cooper to smile: The company anticipates healthy demand for advertising as the TV industry ushers in the earliest part of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
Disney said it would revamp the way it sells ABC, Freeform and its Disney entertainment cable networks to advertisers, in the hopes of getting more sponsors to purchase ad time across many o…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Hollywood is getting ready to tackle the Super Bowl as hard as longstanding sponsors like PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch InBev. Disney’s studios, NBCUniversal’s Universal and Viaco…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Disney is considering a revamp of how it sells some of its most popular outlets to Madison Avenue. Under one plan being discussed, the company would place a single executive in charge of adv…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:40AMWednesday, November 16, 2016
Fans of Doc McStuffins, the extremely popular animated African-American girl who fixes broken toys on the Disney Junior cable network, can breathe a sigh of relief. Her series has been renew…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, June 30, 2016
New York Public Radio, the backer of two New York public-radio stations as well as podcasts featuring hosts such as Alec Baldwin and Jessica Williams, said it added drummer and “Tonigh…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:34PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Disney wants to try to keep “Frozen” at full boil. The company said it would launch a new adventure featuring Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff and the rest of the characters from its h…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AMWednesday, June 15, 2016
CBS has set a new deal with the Recording Academy to keep the Grammy Awards telecast through 2026, a pact that marks the longest continuous partnership of a network and a major kudocast. CBS…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
Dolly Parton has sung about many things: steadfast love (“I Will Always Love You”), humble beginnings (“Coat of Many Colors) and the drudge of the working life (“9 to…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:56AMMonday, April 25, 2016
When “Saturday Night Live” starts its 42nd season next fall, it will presumably still have “Weekend Update,” musical guests and lots of celebrity impressions. What it…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PMThursday, March 24, 2016
David Hasselhoff is eager to be welcomed on American shores. The actor has found much success overseas over the years, most recently exec producing and starring in the U.K. stage musical �…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:31PMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Olaf, the optimistic snowman from Disney’s mammoth film “Frozen,” will pay a visit to the animated series “Sofia The First,” as part of new efforts to keep the …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:15PMMonday, November 30, 2015
Whipped cream is known to be sumptuous, but its taste might seem a tad bittersweet for NBC. When the Peacock airs its much-anticipated live telecast of “The Wiz” this Thursday, it will a…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Characters from the 1994 Walt Disney movie “The Lion King” have not been seen in new settings since a direct-to-video sequel appeared more than a decade ago. Now the company is preparing…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:35PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Dance Network, a subscription-based streaming-video service, devoted to dance programming, will launch in the fall, its backers announced Tuesday. The service will have tiered pricing: 6.99 …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:15PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
“Frozen” has already extended its icy reach from movie theaters to home video and even broadcast TV, thanks to the appearance of characters from the film in ABC’s drama …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:58AMMonday, March 9, 2015
Kevin Spacey will go from playing the U.S. President on Netflix’s “House of Cards” to telling stories about how to become the U.S. President in a new primetime series for C…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
ESPN said it would suspend Keith Olbermann for the rest of the week in light of snarky remarks the popular broadcaster on Twitter made about a Pennsylvania State University fundraiser and so…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
ABC Family might look for new graphics, new programs and even a new name in 2015 as part of a proposed reboot that would make it more appealing to its millennial audience, according to a per…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:04PM 
