ESPN, as expected, said Friday it will devote less attention to so-called “overnight” ratings for many of the live sports broadcasts it televises every week, part of a broader industry move away from using an early tabulation of local markets as a proxy for daily consumer TV viewing. Simply put, changes in the way Nielsen [...
Disney came close to buying Twitter in 2016. Michael Eisner made an impassioned pitch to the Disney board to block Bob Iger’s acquisition of Pixar. In the mid-1980s, Iger almost joined ICM as a sports agent. Those are some of the intriguing revelations in Iger’s new book “The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From [...]“The Crown” creator Peter Morgan is staying in business with Netflix. Morgan has signed a multi-year overall deal at the streaming giant for both film and television projects.