Thursday, June 30, 2016
Disney has struck a deal with Major League Baseball to acquire a one-third stake in the league’s MLB Advanced Media technology arm for about $3.5 billion, Bloomberg reported. Under the…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:31PM[SHARE]Disney has created a secure sandbox for preteens to get a taste of social media " without the risk that they’ll run into something age-inappropriate, scary or offensive. More important…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Live.ly, the live-streaming app from Musical.ly that officially launched four days ago, has zoomed to the top of Apple’s free apps chart " with almost 500,000 downloads so far " and…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2016
Producer Scott Rudin has been elected to the board of Expedia, the online travel-booking company headed by chairman Barry Diller. Expedia disclosed Rudin’s appointment to the board eff…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2016
A U.S. Senate investigation into pay-TV billing practices found that Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications " which completed their $67 billion merger in May " have regularly overbille…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PM[SHARE]For $90, Aaron Sorkin will share his tricks of the screenwriting trade. Sorkin, scribe of such films such as “A Few Good Men,” “Steve Jobs” and “The Social Netw…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2016
DanceOn, the YouTube network focused on dance culture, has adopted a new name " Izo " as the company looks to stretch its legs more broadly into music content. "We really needed to create an…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
TheAudience, a social-media and digital content marketing agency focused on connecting brands with cultural influencers, has hired Mike Dodge as CEO and Debbie Menin as executive VP of strat…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
Hulu announced a straight-to-series order for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a drama from from MGM Television starring Elisabeth Moss. The series, based on the novel of the same na…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
YouTube and Awesomeness Films have announced “Dance Camp,” a music-and-dance teen drama, as the first feature-length film under their co-production deal. The movie, produced by J…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
ESPN cut a content-distribution deal with event-ticketing site StubHub, part of a bigger initiative by the eBay-owned subsidiary to turn itself into a bigger destination for sports fans. …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2015
Twitter has launched live-streaming video app Periscope, developed by the startup it bought earlier in 2015 for a reported $100 million, upping the battle with overnight mobile-app str…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
The cyber-attackers who broke down Sony Pictures' digital doors stole five movies and uploaded them to piracy sites " a move that could cost the studio millions of dollars in lost box office…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2014
NBC’s broadcast of “Peter Pan Live” Thursday drew a huge social-media following — well above the Peacock’s “Sound of Music” broadcast last year and …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:19PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Move over, Elsa. Apple’s iPad is the No. 1 brand among children 6-12, beating out Disney, Nickelodeon, YouTube, Netflix, Toys ‘R’ Us, McDonald’s, and multiple snack-f…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PM[SHARE]Monday, September 1, 2014
Jim Louderback, g.m. of Discovery Digital Networks, is leaving the company two years after the cable programmer bought web-video startup Revision3, where he had been CEO. Louderback annou…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Time Warner Cable’s broadband and video-on-demand services were knocked offline for more than two hours Wednesday, with the cable company saying most services were restored by 6 a.m. E…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Twitch, the videogame-streaming service that Google is in the process of acquiring for $1 billion, has pulled the plug on Justin.tv. Justin.tv, a website designed for users to "lifecas…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:31PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2014
Yo, Adrian! The entire “Rocky” film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa is scheduled to expire from Netflix’s streaming service as of July 1, 2014, accord…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2014
YouTube is playing hardball with music companies: The Internet video service this week will begin removing videos from indie labels that have refused to agree to the terms for its music-subs…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2014
Endemol Beyond USA, the digital multichannel network unit of global TV production firm Endemol, hired former Disney executive and entrepreneur David B. Williams as chief content …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Producers of Tony-nominated musical “If/Then” starring Idina Menzel are working with Mashable on a digital-marketing campaign, which the parties tout as the first such collaborat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
Cable TV loves Robin Williams in old-lady drag. 20th Century Fox's "Mrs. Doubtfire" was the most-aired pic on basic cable in 2013. The 1993 comedy was played 66 times across five networks, a…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:54AM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2014
Mr. Moviefone is about to get disconnected. AOL’s Moviefone dial-in lines will no longer be available after next Monday, March 31, according to a recording on the service. The phone nu…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
With Disney’s blockbuster $500 million-plus deal to buy Maker Studios, look for dealmaking activity in the online multichannel network space to continue apace. MCNs are “now top-…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2014
Disney Interactive is eliminating 700 jobs, about 26% of its total workforce, as the Mouse House’s games and Internet division struggles to achieve profitability. The cuts were expecte…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
AwesomenessTV, DreamWorks Animation’s digital division, has hired Walt Disney Studios marketing exec T.J. Marchetti as chief marketing officer. Marchetti will be in charge of all Aweso…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2014
NBCUniversal is trying to transplant some Silicon Valley culture to the East Coast. The media company Monday announced the launch of the 63,000-sq.-ft. NBCU Technology Center in Englewood Cl…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:01AM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2014
Jacob Shwirtz, formerly head of social TV at Viacom’s MTV Networks, will join Endemol North America as chief social media officer for its Internet-video division, Endemol Beyond USA…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
A man who was wearing a Google Glass device during a showing of “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” last Saturday at an AMC Theatres location in Columbus, Ohio, was questioned by agents …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
NBCUniversal’s news division has made a minority investment in NowThis News, styled as a next-generation mobile-social video news provider, in a bid to better reach millennials and oth…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20AM[SHARE] 
