Brian Steinberg
Senior TV Editor at Variety
Covering media, business of news, sports, advertising, late night. Some days are diamonds / some days are rocks. I like comics. Hi: [email protected]
Articles
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4 days ago |
variety.com | Brian Steinberg
Spanish-language giant TelevisaUnivision will part ways with its veteran ad-sales chief, Donna Speciale, even as the company is in the midst of negotiating with advertisers for millions of dollars as part of the industry’s annual “upfront” market when U.S. media companies hope to sell the bulk of their commercial inventory ahead of their next cycle of programming.
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5 days ago |
variety.com | Brian Steinberg
Tom Llamas has no formal training in juggling, but his new assignment for NBC News will have him working to keep some very big plates spinning in the air. When Llamas takes over the “NBC Nightly News” desk from Lester Holt on Monday night, one of his first jobs will be to ensure that the program’s audience barely notices, even if a transition in such a program is one of the more seismic things that happens on TV.
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1 week ago |
variety.com | Brian Steinberg
One of MSNBC‘s best-known personalities is getting into the world of podcasts — even if she’s no longer with MSNBC. Joy Reid was hosting a Monday-through-Friday program in the early evening for the soon-to-be-spun-off -from-NBCUniversal progressive news outlet as recently as February when she was ousted in a revamp of the network ordered by its new chief, Rebecca Kutler.
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1 week ago |
variety.com | Brian Steinberg
TV’s annual “upfront” negotiations, when networks try to sell as many TV commercials as possible, is a tough, high-pressure moment. But here’s some relief for NBCUniversal, Disney and Paramount: They won’t have to deal with GroupM anymore.
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1 week ago |
variety.com | Brian Steinberg
David Leavy, a longtime key lieutenant of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, is leaving his current chief operating officer role at CNN and returning to the network’s parent, according to two people familiar with the matter. “David arrived at CNN in tumultuous times and did a brilliant job stabilizing the company at a difficult moment.
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TV’s Upfront Week is getting increasingly crabby with media companies hoping to sell billions in commercials in less time than previous years while trying to edge each other out for access to advertisers and journalists.... https://t.co/a0Fcuas0Tg via @variety
'Rex Morgan' plods along w/o literary pretentions, but this recent week of comics in which high-school graduates cruelly break off with one another after they've gone separate ways and taken up with new paramours evokes Sherwood Anderson or Theodore Dreiser... https://t.co/Bh0f4vf68H
Today's 'Beetle Bailey' tries to answer the previously unasked question of what, exactly, would happen if the marketing geniuses at Mondelez International and the Coca-Cola Company agreed to merge Sprite and Ritz into a single product.... https://t.co/chaxTDvs19