CBS to Phase Out CBSN Name for News Streaming Service

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRashida Jones learned a while ago to live with pressure.At the tail end of the runup to the 2020 presidential election, Jones was the NBC News executive supervising two of the most scrutinized events in a chaotic news cycle. First came a town hall meeting between anchor Savannah Guthrie and then-president Donald Trump, a session that sparked backlash after NBC decided to air it opposite a similar ABC News telecast with then-candidate Joe Biden.

Music is such a dominant part of culture, with it now being unusual to go anywhere without headphones.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorA bevy of big media players are eager to win a growing battle to provide consumers with streaming news, but John Heilemann has a message for them: Don’t count out smaller competitors.Heilemann’s “The Recount,” a media outlet founded with entrepreneur John Battelle in 2019, is hiring its first chief content officer in a bid to gain new traction with streaming-news aficionados eager for smarter analysis in critical news categories like politics and sports.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNatalie Morales has proven herself a versatile anchor who logged time at “Today,” “Access Hollywood” and “Dateline” and still managed to find time to do daredevil stunts with colleague Jenna Bush Hager.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMyPillow, the direct-response sleep-support company led by entrepreneur Mike Lindell, has made a new bed for itself on Fox News Channel.A national commercial for MyPillow was spotted on Fox News Thursday, roughly two months after the company disclosed that it had sought to pull all of its advertising from schedules on the Fox Corp.-backed cable-news outlet.

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Amazon have launched their free IMDb TV streaming service in the UK.The service, which is related to the film/TV industry database IMDb, launched three years ago in the US as a free service supported by advertising.The new UK version is currently available via Amazon Prime Video – though a subscription to Amazon Prime is not required to access the service – and it will soon be available as a standalone app via Fire TV.Alongside a host of the service’s own productions, the likes of Pulp Fiction,

K.J. Yossman Amazon has launched ad-based streaming service IMDb TV in the U.K.

CNN has tapped marketing professor Scott Galloway to host a show for its upcoming subscription streaming service, CNN+, set to debut in the first quarter of 2022.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAs media companies throw more of their firepower into new streaming-video behemoths, some of them still maintain a fondness for good ol’ TV networks.Discovery and home-renovation gurus Chip and Joanna Gaines are moving ahead with the planned launch of their Magnolia Network, which will replace cable’s DIY on January 5, 2022 at 9 p.m. eastern.

Whenever Frances McDormand brought up the notion of her husband and frequent collaborator Joel Coendirecting her in her dream role of Lady Macbeth, he demurred – bluntly. “He said absolutely not,” she recalled; “I had no interested in theater,” he explained, and that was that.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorA former top TV news producer alleged in a New York Times opinion piece that Chris Cuomo touched her inappropriately years ago when both of them worked for ABC News, a disclosure that threatens to add to public perception issues around the anchor, who leads CNN’s most-watched primetime program.Shelley Ross, a former executive producer of ABC News’ “Good Morning America” and CBS News “Early Show,” alleged in the New York Times article that Cuomo squeezed “the

Nancy Han and Jennifer Suozzo are among the new executives joining CNN+, the network’s new subscription streaming service set to launch in the first quarter of next year.

TikTok reportedly have made plans to launch a new music streaming service in China.ByteDance, who own the popular video app, are set to launch the new service, which currently goes by the name Feilo, later this year.According to Chinese outlet 36Kr, work on the app began in 2019, and is the brainchild of Alex Zhu, ByteDance’s Vice President of Product and Strategy.The reported development of Felio comes just one year after ByteDance’s launch of another music streaming platform in India called

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOwen Wilson, Kim Kardashian, Jason Sudeikis and Rami Malek will host during the next season of “Saturday Night Live,” as the show livestreams on Peacock for the first time.For decades, the traditional home of “Saturday Night Live” has been the NBC broadcast network — after the late local weekend news.

CBS News is changing the name of its CBSN streaming service to simply “CBS News.”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBefore the characters of CBS’ venerable “CSI” return to solve murders and mysteries, fans of the show can get a head start.For two weeks before the launch of the ten-episode series “CSI: Vegas,” CBS will drop clues to a new case daily across social media, on its air, and across other networks owned by parent ViacomCBS.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMichael Strahan will continue to greet ABC morning viewers as part of a renewed pact that will keep him on “Good Morning America” for the next several years.Strahan, who was named a “GMA” co-anchor in 2016 and placed alongside Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos, has signed a new four-year deal with ABC News, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is rolling out its streaming service Viaplay into five new markets through 2023.