NBCU Plans Bid to Draw Wider Set of Advertisers to Sports

Super Bowl will be hosted in Los Angeles, which means there will be tons of celebrity-packed parties and events. From parties hosted by big publications, to concerts featuring performers like John Mayer, Justin Bieber, Machine Gun Kelly, Gwen Stefani and more.

Nicole Kidman earned her fifth Academy Award nomination for her work in “Being the Ricardos.” While she was surprised and overjoyed to be recognized by the Academy, not everyone in her household had the same reaction.Javier Bardem explains his mixed feelings over this year’s Best Actress raceKristen Stewart opens up about her unexpected friendship with Nicole KidmanA post shared by Nicole Kidman (@nicolekidman)In an appearance on The View, Nicole Kidman talked about her Oscar nomination and how happy it made her. “I’m like, what? I mean it’s like there was so much emotion attached to it that I didn’t realize I was carrying, and I just looked around, tears are coming down,” she said.

Zac Taylor has a huge night ahead of him as he’s coaching the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2022 Super Bowl in just a few hours. They’re going up against the Los Angeles Rams in the showing.

The stars stepped out for the alice + olivia by Stacey Bendet Fall 2022 Presentation during 2022 New York Fashion Week!

Netflix’s six series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Punisher, as well as their Avengers-style crossover event The Defenders – will have two more weeks to get their fix, with all 13 combined seasons leaving the platform’s UK site at the start of March.It’ll be slightly earlier for Netflix subscribers in some regions, with NME confirming that in the US, Canada and some European countries, the full slate of series – which were produced between 2015 and 2019 – will leave the service on February 27. In Australia, the shows will disappear a day later.It’s yet to be announced where the series will be available to stream once they leave Netflix – though given that Marvel is owned by Disney, the company’s own Disney+ service – which launched in November 2019, five months after Netflix dropped the third and final season of Jessica Jones – seems to be a likely bet. Worth noting is that one of the Netflix series’ most iconic characters, Wilson Fisk (aka Kingpin, played by Vincent D’Onofrio), recently made his comeback in the Disney+ original Hawkeye.

Noel Gallagher is the latest artist to pay tribute to David Bowie for the late, great pop and rock icon’s David Bowie Is series, touching on the last time the former Oasis leader conversed with Bowie.Not to be confused with a museum exhibit that toured the world between 2013 and 2018 (also named David Bowie Is), the series began last month with a seven-minute video showing Dave Grohl, Yungblud and Ricky Gervais reminiscing on their favourite Bowie moments, songs and interactions, and touching on the ways Bowie influenced their own careers. It was followed by a second video from Grohl at the end of January, and then one from Elvis Costello at the start of February.For the series’ fourth instalment, Gallagher looked back fondly on Bowie’s “forever changing” legacy, likening him to The Beatles and describing him as “fearless and not afraid of ridicule” with “a great, unique voice”.

He can’t help it if this dish is popular! Jonathan Bennett stole hearts as the dreamy Aaron Samuels in 2004’s Mean Girls, and more than 15 years later, fans are drooling over his recipes.

Rapper Kodak Black was hospitalized after being shot earlier this weekend.

Alison Hammond fooled a few of her celebrity pals on social media as she pretended to give a tour of her new sprawling mansion. The This Morning presenter took to Instagram to give her followers a grand tour of her brand new luxury mansion, complete with a swimming pool, gym and football pitch. Captioning the video as she posted it to Instagram, Alison wrote: “"Cribs! by Alison Hammond and filmed by @hairbymichellesultan.

Dancing On Ice host Holly Willoughby looked incredible on Sunday's episode as she opted for a pink Valentine's Day dress. The This Morning star, 41, took to Instagram ahead of the ITV show to give her 7.6 million followers a glimpse at her outfit for the latest instalment of the skating competition. It comes as Holly reunited with her co-host Phillip Schofield on Sunday's instalment after he tested positive for coronavirus last week and was temporarily replaced by Stephen Mulhern.

For the laughs! John Mulaney and Pete Davidson’s friendship has fascinated fans since the comedians toured together — and their bond has only gotten stronger.

Donald Trump said he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns. He told reporters on Air Force One as he returned from Florida: "As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBasketball fans can’t sit courtside these days, but they might just get the ultimate view of NBA action when ESPN opens its coverage of the league’s season this evening.Fans who use the ESPN App will be able to access full games with a “rail-cam” view, which lets the streaming audience see the action through a camera lens placed on a mobile table. As the action moves up and down the court, the camera can move with it (a concept not dissimilar from the “Boogermobile,” an elevated chair for former “Monday Night Football” analyst Booger McFarland that ESPN for a time placed on top of a cart that could move with the game up and down the sideline).

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIf you missed the regular Opening Day from Major League Baseball due to the coronavirus pandemic, well, someone feels your pain.Comcast Corp. intends to refund the programming fees its subscribers paid for regional sports networks in the second quarter, the Philadelphia cable giant said Wednesday.

After years of guest appearances as the go-to gamblingaficionado, Sal Iacono, AKA "Cousin Sal," has started his own venture with Extra Points, a media company focusing on sports, sports betting and comedy. Presented by Mush Media, the company launched Monday with its flagship podcast Extra Points, hosted by Iacono and The NFL Network's Dave Dameshek, which will release episodes weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays across all major platforms.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe nation’s local news veterans are launching a bid to take on a few successful upstarts making a market in national sports.An alliance of local-media companies, the Local Media Consortium, will launch “The Matchup,“ a new online sports news effort that aims to give fans of specific teams more news about them from a wider range of outlets than just those covering it locally The group’s first effort will make more headlines about a team available to a reader, so that a Dallas Morning News subscriber who follows the Dallas Cowboys might be able to easily find and click on to other stories about the team in, for instance, The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Leah Remini is praising “Westworld” actress Thandie Newton for recently sharing a story about a difficult day she had while filming the 2000 movie, “Mission: Impossible 2,” alongside Tom Cruise. Newton, now 47, starred in the movie with Cruise, now 58, in the sequel to the film series that would go on to be one of the most successful action franchises in Hollywood.

Also Read: Fox Sports to Put 'Virtual Fans' in the Stands for MLB Games (Video)The current round of cuts comes a month after Sports Business Journal reported in June that 20 Fox Sports talent and producers on low-rated boxing, WWE and soccer programs had been laid off by the company.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Sports has laid off between 50 and 100 staffers, according to a person familiar with the matter, part of a bid to realign the Fox Corp. unit after it shed its regional-sports networks as part of the company’s massive asset sale to Walt Disney Co.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN is moving deeper into the increasingly popular game of talking about big topics in smaller chunks of content.The Walt Disney-owned sports-media giant will today start rolling out “ESPN Stories,” a new series of quick-hit content compilations that its executives believe represent a new way of talking about sports to a generation of fans that love seeing not only great plays and highlights, commentator hot takes, stats and player interviews but humorous moments captured by fans on the scene and other memes that have become part of the currency of conversation on social media.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe NBA already has Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry. Now it’s ready to work with Issa Rae.The producer and actor isn’t picking up a ball to play against the Nets, the Jazz or the Golden State Warrrior, but she may have to execute a trickier maneuver: luring fans back to a new NBA cycle that is likely to be one of most scrutinized in the league’s history.Rae is the center of a new NBA campaign that aims to remind fans where basketball left off earlier this year and build new appetites for the restart of the season.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBaseball advertising appears to have pivoted from a months-long slump to hitting above average.Fox Corp. has sold more than 90% of its ad inventory in its share of games in Major League Baseball’s pandemic-truncated 2020 season, according to Seth Winter, executive vice president of sports sales for the company, as well as all the ad berths in its planned broadcast of four games slated to air this Saturday on Fox Broadcasting and Fox Sports 1.

The masterplan is currently on ice, but its two previous incarnations met with a huge public backlash - largely over the proposed loss of much-loved green spaces.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFox Sports has released what it claims is a “completely redesigned” app for livestreaming games, real-time scores, breaking news and more — timed for the debut of Major League Baseball’s delayed 2020 season.The app’s overhaul has been in the works for nearly two years, and Fox Sports decided to introduce the new version once sports leagues were ready to resume play after COVID-19 suspensions, said David Katz, EVP and head of digital.

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