Adrian Wojnarowski Retires From ESPN
Longtime National Basketball Association insider Adrian Wojnarowski retired from his role with ESPN Wednesday in a shocking move. Wojnarowski–one of the most influential news breakers in sports media history, who is famous for his “Woj bombs”–will become general manager of the men’s basketball program at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure University. (The Athletic) Wojnarowski, 55,…
Sand, Sea And Swagger: Fox’s ‘HI-Surf’ Is A Body Of Work
If swaggering, shirtless men trading macho jibes about the girls on the beach is what you’re looking for, then have I got a lifeguard drama for you.
YouTube Announces Generative AI Features and ‘Hype,’ Plans Revamp of TV App
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Wednesday a slate of new artificial intelligence features coming to the platform. (NBC News) The first feature is the new Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio application, which YouTube has been testing in a limited way over the past few months. The tab’s job is, essentially, to tell you what…
Lionsgate Signs Deal With AI Startup Runway
Lionsgate, the entertainment company behind The Hunger Games and Twilight, plans to start using gen AI in the creation of its new movies and TV shows, a sign of the emerging technology’s advance in Hollywood. (WSJ) Under the arrangement, AI video startup Runway will use Lionsgate’s vast catalog of content to train an AI model…
Week of Sept. 9 Ratings: Cable News, Morning Shows, Evening Newscasts
What a difference a historic presidential debate makes. After a sleepy post-Labor Day week, the big three cable networks saw double-digit week-to-week and year-to-year gains courtesy of the Sept. 10 matchup between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. (TVNewser) It was a slender victory–but a victory nonetheless–for Good Morning America last week. After the ABC News…
X Circumvents Court-Ordered Block in Brazil
Some Brazilian users regained access to X Wednesday despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country’s Supreme Court–a reunion apparently resulting from the social network changing the way its servers are accessed. But the renewed access may be short-lived. (AP) The X update used cloud services offered by third parties, namely security firm…
The Haitian Times Covered False Claims Targeting Springfield—Now It’s Facing Attacks
Macollvie Neel, editor of The Haitian Times, was ready to start her workday from home Monday when her doorbell rang. What she thought might be a delivery turned out to be more than a half-dozen police officers. “I looked and there were police cruisers outside my house,” Neel recalled Tuesday in an interview with CNN….
TelevisaUnivision Considers Removing CEO Who Knit Company Together
TelevisaUnivision, the influential producer and broadcaster of Spanish-language television, is weighing a plan to immediately replace CEO Wade Davis, according to three people briefed on the plan who would speak only anonymously because the discussions are private. (NYT)
Google Offered to Sell Part of Adtech Business, Not Enough for EU Publishers
Alphabet’s Google took a major step this year to end a European Union antitrust investigation with an offer to sell its advertising marketplace, AdX, but European publishers rejected the proposal, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Wednesday. (Reuters)