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In the Wild: AMC’s Lestat Wows Live on Stage
It’s not every day that you get to watch one of your favorite characters come to life, but AMC Global Media gave Anne Rice fans just that during a “The Vampire Lestat” premiere event at the Beacon Theatre in NYC.
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CNN Headlines Reimagines FAST News
When CNN relaunched its FAST channel last summer, the network didn’t pitch it as a revenue play or a hedge against cord-cutting. Instead, CNN Headlines was viewed as more experimental.
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Fox Sports’ Plan for World Cup Glory
There’s never been a World Cup quite like the one Fox Sports will broadcast, starting June 11. It’s the biggest edition of the world’s most-watched sports tournament—48 nations playing 104 matches across 38 days through July 19.
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In the Wild: DirecTV Rides Upfront Week Wave
With upfronts kicking into high gear this week, DirecTV is debuting a multi-channel out-of-home and digital campaign that depicts the week as a metaphor for what the platform does all year long: showcase the best of TV.
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Murdoch Denies Fox-NFL Tension
Analysts have long been waiting in anticipation to see how the NFL’s next media rights deals will play out.
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Nexstar Stays Confident on Tegna
To say the $6.2 billion Nexstar-Tegna merger is in a tricky spot would be an understatement.
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WBD and Sling Quietly Drop Litigation
Warner Bros. Discovery and Dish have discontinued their litigation against each other over Sling TV ’s flexible streaming passes. With no one really noticing, the two filed a stipulation of voluntary
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Sofia the First Gets a Second Act
“Sofia the First” creator Craig Gerber knew it was time to revive his preschool series when he started seeing the theme song and other original numbers from the series go viral every so often.
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Lawsuit Blocking Nexstar-Tegna Gets Help
The lawsuit standing in the way of Nexstar and Tegna’s $6.2 billion merger has been led by DirecTV and eight state attorneys general, who each hail from Democratic states. Late Thursday, that group received reinforcements.
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Canela Media Turns to AI to Scale Hispanic Content
Canela Media is pulling 62 million monthly active users and 6 million social followers, while pushing into new territory by using AI to create microseries and dub content at scale.
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