Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s advertising chief, was preparing to interview Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner, onstage at a conference last month when she received an email from a peer in the advertising […]
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Back to news homeNBCUniversal’s Jeff Shell Was Fired After Harassment Complaint
Jeff Shell was fired as NBCUniversal’s chief executive after an anchor at one of the company’s news networks lodged a sexual harassment complaint against him, a lawyer for the anchor […]
How Did AT&T’s $100 Billion Time Warner Deal Go So Wrong?
A year later, in the summer of 2016, Mr. Ginsberg, Time Warner’s head of communications, had breakfast with Peter Chernin, his former boss at News Corp. and a trusted adviser […]
Premium streaming subscriptions continue to increase despite Netflix’s downfall
If you’ve been following Netflix lately, then you’d know the streamer is on shaky ground at the moment. Antenna data reveals that Netflix saw 3.6 million subscription cancellations in the […]
What We Learned About TV During Its Biggest Week
Stocks were plunging and Covid cases were surging.Who’s ready to buy some ads?For the first time in three years, the upfronts — the showcases the media industry throws for advertisers […]
Madison Avenue’s Biggest Event Returns, to a Whole New World
For the first time in three years, the circus is coming back to town.The television industry’s biggest showcase for advertisers, the so-called upfronts, will return to Manhattan landmarks like Radio […]
Twitter tries to woo anxious advertisers with a slate of premium video content at the NewFronts
Twitter returned to the Digital Content NewFronts this evening to pitch its upcoming premium video content slate to advertisers, as it had in previous years. But this time around, the […]
Prepare Yourself for This Weekend’s ‘Crypto Bowl’
The crypto industry, which struggles with a reputation for being volatile, bad for the environment and overrun by wealthy tech guys, has tried to demystify itself for the general public […]
‘Joined at the Hip’: Jeff Zucker’s Relationship With a Top CNN Executive
Jeff Zucker’s tenure as president of CNN ended in an abrupt fashion on Wednesday just days after he acknowledged to company lawyers what had long been rumored in television news […]
ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish downplays idea of a merger to get scale in streaming
ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish this morning downplayed his company’s interest in a potential merger — like one with its partner Comcast. At the WSJ Tech Live conference today, the media […]