Twitter’s high-profile debut live-streaming a National Football League game went off without a glitch Thursday night, but low viewership numbers indicate that most football fans still prefer to watch the game on traditional TV. An average audience of 243,000 viewers per minute watched the New York Jets beat the Buffalo Bills via a live-stream broadcast on Twitter.
Roy Price, the head of Amazon Studios, joins the WSJ Media Mix podcast to discuss why winning TV awards helps Amazon’s core business and why the streaming service is expanding internationally in markets like Japan and India.
The magazine Modern Luxury Brides is changing its name to Modern Luxury Weddings to be more representative of marriage in today’s society and broaden its appeal to same-sex couples.
Walt Disney has tapped former Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment executive Bruce Rosenblum to run the business operations at its television unit.
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Apple News will now allow publishers to sell subscriptions through the app, bringing back a major element of the old Apple Newsstand.
The Brisbane, Calif.-based company said it had been seeking financing or a a suitor for five months, but it came up short and had to close down.
NBC Broadcasting Chairman Ted Harbert, a 40-year veteran of the TV industry, is stepping down. Mark Lazarus, chairman of the NBC Sports Group, will become chairman of NBC Broadcasting and Sports.
Snapchat on Thursday plans to launch its first non-English version of Snapchat Discover. There are eight media partners for the France rollout, including Vice, Cosmopolitan and Tastemade.
Time Inc. named Jen Wong to the newly created position of chief operating officer, the latest in a string of changes at the magazine publisher as it looks to boost digital revenue and broaden its opportunities.
The marketing technology and analytics startup Curalate has built a new product designed to help marketers create ads for vertical videos on mobile devices. Urban Outfitters has signed on as the first partner for its new ‘Tilt’ product.
21st Century Fox has settled a lawsuit with former anchor Gretchen Carlson, whose allegations that former Fox News chief Roger Ailes sexually harassed her prompted his exit from the company. 397
A shift in young Hispanics’ television tastes is testing Univision’s 24-year marriage to its longtime programming supplier, Mexican TV giant Televisa, a relationship that helped fuel the rise of Hispanic media in the U.S.
The family-friendly entertainment conglomerate, worried about reaching young men in an era of cable-cutting, is betting big on the profane gonzo journalism of ex-punk rocker Shane Smith.
After lawsuits, on-again, off-again settlement talks and exchanges of insults, a settlement was finally reached between Viacom and National Amusements. The interim CEO title will go to Tom Dooley through Sept. 30.
Top Viacom executives recently held discussions with Sumner Redstone’s holding company, National Amusements, to settle litigation surrounding the media mogul’s empire.
Some of the tactics used by Apple to achieve success have hurt its efforts to revolutionize the TV-watching experience. In search of its new big thing, the company has alienated cable providers and networks with an assertive negotiating style. 122
