Month: December 2020

Computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac is suing Twitter for defamation over its handling of the ‘NY Post”s story about Hunter Biden.

So, you want to work for a social networking company, but you’re not sure which one fits you the best? Workplace culture and compensation monitoring site Comparably has you covered, sharing its annual lists earlier this month of best company culture, best CEOs and best companies for diversity and women. Comparably explained how it arrives…

Anyone who has pondered whether billboards are media (or not) could find the answer in the expensive, high-stakes Senate runoff election in Georgia.

Fox News has been named the “Misinformer of the Year” for 2020 by watchdog Media Matters, marking the 17th consecutive year it has bestowed the recognition. While this is a first-time recognition for
Fox News explicitly, many of the news channel’s personalities and leadership have been bestowed previously, including first-time honoree in 2004, former “O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly, as well
as Sean Hannity (2008), Rupert Murdoch/News Corp. (2011), and Lachlan Murdoch (2018).

Did you know TikTok allows you to set content preferences related to the languages in videos? That is, in addition to allowing you to change the application’s text to a different language, you can also set your preferred language(s) for videos themselves. When you set your language content preferences, TikTok will “customize your viewing experience”…

Sports networks looking for carriage know their worth — and it is high.

TV and movie production ground to a standstill in March due to Covid-19, which halted filming for several months. And while some shows were able to return to the airwaves this fall, others have remained sidelined because of the pandemic, which means that more than a year will pass in between seasons. So if you’re…

Hello, we’re the agency next door. A mere 2,000 miles away. Who would have thought that a single piece of technology would change the way an entire industry works? And yet, like the advances brought by the fax machine, overnight delivery and email before it, the video conference has suddenly altered how we conduct the…

Investment firms Searchlight Capital Partners and ForgeLight have secured a majority stake in Univision, with former Viacom CFO Wade Davis assuming the role of CEO.

This year threw a lot of curveballs at the television entertainment industry. Covid-19 forced businesses to experiment left and right as consumer adoption of streaming continued in force, and two huge streaming players debuted. Meanwhile, a wave of executive departures upended entertainment institutions and came with major business shake-ups and shifts that will continue to…