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TV One To Launch Educational Initiative

TV Production Studies Aimed at Helping Middle School Students Learn Related Skills
By: R. Thomas Umstead Jun 14 2013 - 12:33pm
TV Production Studies Aimed at Helping Middle School Students Learn Related Skills

TV One will offer a educational initiative to engage middle school students in the television production field, said network officials.

Cable Show 2013: Lopez, Rodriguez Tout Network Plans To Industry

Celebrities Say Quality Content In Store For Respective Nets Targeting English-Language Latinos
By: by R. Thomas Umstead Jun 12 2013 - 1:44pm
Celebrities Say Quality Content In Store For Respective Nets Targeting English-Language Latinos

Actress/singer Jennifer Lopez and film producer Robert Rodriguez pitched their respective Latino-targeted, English-language networks to the cable industry during separate events Wednesday morning during the 2013 Cable Show.

Lopez spoke about her role as chief creative officer of NuvoTv during the show’s opening session, saying the network will be targeted to modern Latinos looking for content that represents their lives. While there are more Latinos on TV today, Lopez said that the characters don’t necessarily reflect today’s Latino population.

OWN Sets Wanda Sykes Specials

Comedian To Host Two July Stand-Up Shows
By: by R. Thomas Umstead Jun 7 2013 - 3:07pm
Comedian To Host Two July Stand-Up Shows

Comedian Wanda Sykes will host two summer comedy specials for OWN.

The two-hour original comedy specials, Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious will air on consecutive Saturdays beginning July 13 and will feature emerging female stand-up comedians including Andi Smith, Gloria Bigelow, Marina Franklin, Tracey Ashley, Carmen Lynch and Dominique Witten, said network executives.

Sykes will produce and host the series, which will tape in front of a live audience at Harpo Studios in Chicago, said network officials.

 

Mexico Match Scores For Telemundo

Victory Over Jamaica In World Cup Qualifier Was Top Sports Telecast Tuesday, Broadcaster Says
By: MCN Staff Jun 5 2013 - 6:46pm
Victory Over Jamaica In World Cup Qualifier Was Top Sports Telecast Tuesday, Broadcaster Says
Javier Hernandez of Mexico in a match preview image via Telemundo.

Telemundo said its Tuesday night telecast of Mexico’s important 1-0 win over Jamaica in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match was the top sporting event on television that night regardless of language.

The NBCUniversal-owned Spanish-language broadcaster claimed an average of nearly 2.9 million total viewers and more than 1.7 million viewers ages 18-49, citing Nielsen Live Plus Same Day data. On a cumulative basis, the Rumbo al Mundial match reached more than 5.7 million viewers, including about 3.38 million in the 18-49 demo, Telemundo said.

Mayweather-Alvarez PPV Boxing Match Set For Sept. 14

Fight Expected To Be Most Lucrative PPV Event Of 2013
By: by R. Thomas Umstead May 29 2013 - 11:42pm
Fight Expected To Be Most Lucrative PPV Event Of 2013

Pay-per-view boxing champion Floyd Mayweather will fight Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in a Sept. 14 blockbuster event. 

Mayweather, the undefeated welterweight champion and the PPV boxing category’s biggest draw, tweeted Wednesday night that he will fight the Mexican junior middleweight champion at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, according to ESPN.com.

Tyler Perry Series Draws Record Ratings For OWN

`The Haves and the Have Nots’ Generates 1.7 Million Viewers
By: R. Thomas Umstead May 29 2013 - 3:36pm
`The Haves and the Have Nots’ Generates 1.7 Million Viewers

OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network's first scripted series produced by Tyler Perry yielded record-setting ratings for the network last night.

The May 28 premiere of drama series The Haves and the Have Nots drew 1.7 million viewers, the highest rated series debut in network history, outperforming the 1.2 million viewers generated by reality series Life With La Toya this past April.

A second episode of the series at 10 p.m. drew 1.8 million viewers, said network officials.

TV One Resurrects ‘Love That Girl!’ Series

Scripted Comedy To Return Without Star Tatyana Ali
By: R. Thomas Umstead May 21 2013 - 3:08pm
Scripted Comedy To Return Without Star Tatyana Ali

TV One has given a greenlight to a fourth season of its scripted comedy series Love That Girl!

Myx TV Launches Roku App

Asian-Targeted Network Teams With adRise To Create App
By: R. Thomas Umstead May 20 2013 - 5:03pm
Asian-Targeted Network Teams With adRise To Create App

Asian-American targeted network Myx TV will make its content available on the Roku digital media receivers, the network announced Monday.

The network has teamed with content distribution company adRise to make its programming available to more than five million Roku owners. The Myx TV app is currently available through the Roku Channel Store beginning today.   

Jenny From The (Cable) Block

Jennifer Lopez Discusses New Role At NUVOtv
By: R. Thomas Umstead May 19 2013 - 1:45am
Jennifer Lopez Discusses New Role At NUVOtv

Actress, singer and entrepreneur Jennifer Lopez will now hail from the cable block, having been recently named chief creative officer for English-language, Latino-targeted NUVOtv. In an interview with Multichannel News programming editor R. Thomas Umstead, Lopez talks about her new position at the network, binge viewing and rates the cable industry’s efforts to reach out to Latino viewers.

An edited version of the interview appears below.

MCN: Congratulations on being named chief creative officer. What is your vision for the network?

USA, NFL Expand 'Characters Unite' Collaboration

Weekly Anti-Discrimination Vignettes to Feature NFL Stars
By: R. Thomas Umstead May 16 2013 - 7:02am
Weekly Anti-Discrimination Vignettes to Feature NFL Stars

USA Network will once again team with the National Football League for the network’s “Characters Unite” anti-discrimination initiative.

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