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After emerging as the head of President-elect Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission transition team, longtime Washington, D.C., telecom policy insider and economist Jeffrey A. Eisenach is now a leading candidate to chair the regulatory agency, TVNewsCheck reports. The prospect of…
A report published today on one of the big changes in the broadcast television model notes that as the 2016-17 broadcast season heads into its 10th week, not one of the season’s 20 new series has been canceled. “Gone are…
President-elect Donald Trump was back on The Twitter over the weekend, addressing the issue of whether NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” is funny. Trump tweeted early Sunday: “I watched parts of @nbcsnl Saturday Night Live last night. It is a totally…
It may not be the first show that comes to mind, but the social media darling that ranks as this season’s most social scripted TV series is Freeform’s “Pretty Little Liars.” In fact, “Pretty Little Liars” holds a number of…
After a period of lower viewership for NFL telecasts, things may be turning around. For the two Sundays since the presidential election — which has been cited as a key reason viewers have had their attention diverted from football —…
NBCUniversal and BuzzFeed announced today that NBCU made an additional $200 million investment to expand the strategic partnership between the two companies and fund the growth of BuzzFeed’s news and entertainment network. “With this investment, NBCUniversal and BuzzFeed will extend…
Netflix announced plans today to release its new movie about Barack Obama next month, with the movie set in 1981 as a young Obama — known to his friends as “Barry” — arrives for his junior year at Columbia University….
Three comedy writers and five drama writers have been named by the NBCUniversal Talent Infusion Programs as 2016-17 Writers on the Verge. The program announced today that this year’s selections are comedy writers Mnelik Belilgne, Melanie Boysaw and Jeremy Hsu,…
Press release from NBCUniversal, Nov. 21, 2016: NBCUniversal Talent Infusion Programs has named comedy writers Mnelik Belilgne, Melanie Boysaw and Jeremy Hsu as well as drama writers Lorelei Ignas, Allyssa Lee, Rayna McClendon, Mellori Velasquez and Jeane Wong as its…
Four senior members of AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong’s executive team have departed the company in the past month, The New York Post reports. “The loss of the four longtime Armstrong lieutenants is leading to speculation that Verizon is…