Sesame Workshop is making cuts to its staff, the nonprofit organization confirmed on Wednesday. However, the number of employees affected wasn't disclosed. The news comes as the group's flagship show, Sesame Street, continues its search for a new TV or streaming home after Warner Bros. Discovery didn't renew its output deal for new episodes last...
Omnicom Media Group (OMG) agency OMD has announced two new additions to its C-suite: Dan Rolli as chief investment officer (CIO) and Kim Einan as chief strategy officer (CSO). Both execs join from long tenures at Publicis Group, where Rolli most recently served as evp and head of partnerships at Zenith and Einan previously held...
Just like Rodney Dangerfield, Eugene Daniels is heading back to school. TVNewser can exclusive reveal that the former White House correspondent for Politico and MSNBC's newly-announced senior Washington correspondent is the commencement speaker for 2025's graduating class at Colorado State University. It's a homecoming for Daniels, who graduated from CSU in 2012 with a B.A....
Marie-Lise Campeau, who has been global chief operating officer at creative agency Sid Lee since last October, has been promoted to global CEO. She succeeds Patrick McDaniel, who had been serving as interim CEO since October. Campeau's return to Sid Lee last year came after nearly five years with Ogilvy, where she rose to president...
WPP is deepening its artificial intelligence toolset and making a strategic move into generative AI with a stake in Stability AI. The holding company's investment in Stability AI is meant to deepen access its advanced AI models for creating images, videos, 3D designs, and audio. In return, Stability AI will benefit from WPP's marketing expertise...
The Walt Disney Company announced layoffs on Wednesday at ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Network. According to sources familiar with the matter, the cuts will impact nearly 200 employees or less than 6% of total staff, with the majority coming from ABC News' New York-based team. The Wall Street Journal first reported news of...
With its new name, A+E officially says, "Hello, world!" Today, slightly ahead of the company's virtual upfront event, A+E Networks announced it's changing its name to A+E Global Media. According to the company, the name better reflects its worldwide portfolio of brands and capabilities, including its more than 70,000 assets across long-form and short-form and...
Telecoms giant T-Mobile on Wednesday announced that it closed a deal on Monday to acquire Blis, an adtech company specializing in location-based advertising, for approximately $175 million in cash. Blis' technology forgoes identifiers like third-party cookies and relies on privacy-conscious tools for ad targeting based on location data. T-Mobile believes the company's capabilities will complement...
For the advertising industry in the United States, few regulatory changes have the potential to be as seismic as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s proposal to ban pharmaceutical advertising from television. As the new secretary of health and human services settles into his role, all eyes will be on whether the advertising industry faces a shift...
The cold case involving the disappearance of Iowa news anchor Jodi Huisentruit may get new life depending on what a judge in Cerro Gordo, Iowa decides. Huisentruit went missing nearly 30 years ago when she was 27. On Monday a judge heard arguments to unseal a 2017 search warrant of two cars belonging to a...
Google is hoping that a change in regime leads to a change in its perception as an illegal monopoly in the online search sector by regulators in Washington, D.C. Sources familiar with the discussions told Bloomberg that Google representatives met with the Department of Justice last week and urged the DOJ to rescind its push...
This is TVNewser's basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of Feb. 24, 2025. A busy news week from a political and global standpoint fueled growth for all three cable networks. Fox News achieved a rare feat as it averaged 3.6 million total viewers during weekday primetime, performing better than two...
It looks like Allen Media is "circling back" with the hub idea. WEVV meteorologist Griffin Glasscock has posted an update to social media saying she has a new schedule because the Allen Media station she works for is hubbing its morning weather forecast with The Weather Channel. For Glasscock, it may be good news/bad news...
Fox News was the second highest-rated television network on Monday evening, with Hannity's interview with Vice President J.D. Vance landing in first place in the Adults 25-54 demo at 9 p.m. The interview placed third in total viewers behind The Five and Jesse Watters Primetime. Elsewhere, The Arena with Kasie Hunt on CNN got off...
Microsoft is blurring the line between search and shopping with new AI-powered ads in its generative AI chatbot, Copilot. It unveiled several AI ad formats and tools today at its Advertising Accelerate event in the Dominican Republic, including Showroom Ads, an interactive split-screen experience that mimics in-store guidance, and branded AI agents that let brands...
Google has wiped over 180 apps from the Play Store in response to findings from ad verification vendor Integral Ad Science (IAS) that uncovered a massive ad fraud operation that used shell Android apps to generate millions of dollars in ad revenue. After noticing a handful of "anomalies in app behavior and traffic patterns" in...
Cinema advertising platform National CineMedia (NCM), the U.S. representative of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity's Young Lions competition, revealed this year's 25 finalist teams on Wednesday. NCM also revealed that Omnicom-owned media agency OMD USA has joined the U.S. Lions Community as the competition's first Bold Impact sponsor. OMD has teamed up with...
Radio and digital audio business SiriusXM named executive Scott Walker as its new chief advertising revenue officer this week, where he will replace John Trimble, who is retiring after 16 years with the company. Walker joined the digital streaming platform Pandora in 2008, which was acquired by SiriusXM in 2019 for $3.5 billion. Before his...
The 97th Academy Awards may have contributed to a decline in viewership numbers across all three cable networks. Fox News continued its run as the most-watched network, with MSNBC finishing in second place in total viewers and CNN--which ceded much of its primetime lineup to repeats of United States of Scandal--taking the No. 2 spot...
CNN's re-air of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher was the network's most watched Saturday show in total viewers, nearly cracking the million mark. Meanwhile, its partner show Have I Got News For You took first place in the Adults 25-54 demo and finished second in total viewers. On Fox News, the sophomore edition of...
