Fox News Extends Laura Ingraham’s Stay With Multi-Year Deal

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIngrid Ciprian-Matthews, a veteran administrator at CBS News, will take oversight of the division’s Washington Bureau, filling a role that has been in flux in recent months.Ciprian-Matthews will report to CBS News President Susan Zirinsky, and will play a significant role in running a newsroom engine that helps drive Washington-based programs like “Face The Nation” and “The CBS Evening News.”More to come…

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen Walt Disney’s ESPN airs a Wild Card game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Tennessee Titans this Saturday, viewers will be able to get a little bit of everything.Interested in chatter about sports betting? A simulcast of the game running on streaming outlet ESPN Plus will have it. Want to talk about pop culture and celebrity gossip? Check out the game on Freeform, the Disney cable network devoted to younger audiences.

Leave it to these two to keep things cool, calm, and collected… and look like the cutest couple ever while doing it, too!

Jonathan Van Ness nonchalantly revealed in a New Year's Eve Instagram post that he tied the knot this year. «Thank you universe for allowing me to be here & thanks to everyone who has supported me,» the star wrote.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterFox Broadcasting Company and Sinclair Broadcast Group have struck a multi-year deal to renew Fox network affiliations for stations across 25 U.S. markets, Variety has learned exclusively.Those markets account for more than a tenth of all American television households.“We are pleased that we have reached agreements with FOX to continue our long-standing relationship,” said Sinclair president of distribution and network relations Barry Faber.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen try to show CNN viewers the sights and sounds of New Year’s Eve in Times Square this year, they will face one of their biggest challenges: There won’t be any.The throngs of people who come to see the fabled ball drop in what is billed as New York’s “Crossroads of the World” won’t be in attendance, due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThis year in sports can’t be summed up with Top 10 lists and reels of game clips. So ESPN is going to try some different tactics.ESPN plans a three-hour primetime event to bid farewell to year in sports that often involved events that took place well off the field.  The show, “SportsCenter Presents: 2020 – Heroes, History and Hope,”will air as three one-hour programs and will kick off on Thursday, December 24 at 8 p.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTom Rinaldi, the ESPN correspondent known for his enterprise features and video essays, has jumped to Fox Sports, a place that has in the past not been known for delivering such things.He is expected to take up duties for Fox in 2021, “contributing across the network’s world-class portfolio of live events.”“Tom is one of the all-time great people in this business and a generational storyteller,” said  Eric Shanks.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSamantha Bee will have another year to vent to her heart’s delight on her TBS program, “Full Frontal.”The WarnerMedia-backed network will renew Bee’s satire-and-talk show for a sixth season, which will debut on Wednesday, January 13 at 10:30 p.m. eastern.“It’s a huge honor to get to keep doing this crazy smart and silly show for a sixth season,” said Bee, in a prepared statement.

Fox News has signed its primetime opinion host Laura Ingraham to a new multiyear deal.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe name of the show is similar to the name of the soda that sponsors it.Fox and Pepsi will team up to launch “Cherries Wild,” a new game show meant to evoke thoughts of Pepsi Wild Cherry, a soda the beverage giant aims at younger consumers. Over the course of half an hour, contestants will navigate their way through two rounds of pop-culture trivia in hopes of winning a $250,000 jackpot.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNews junkies often develop a tight relationship with a favorite TV anchor or cable-news outlet. Mosheh Oinounou  hopes some of them will turn instead to a “news concierge.”The former executive producer of “CBS Evening News” is among the many journalists discovering they don’t need a traditional media apparatus — say a TV-network control room or a giant printing press — to serve up information and analysis.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRick Santelli, the veteran CNBC correspondent, recently got into an on-air spat with one of his longtime colleagues.

We’re not done keeping up with the Kardashian-Jenners just yet, after all. The family is set to create new global content under a multi-year deal to stream exclusively on Hulu in the United States, and internationally on Star, the streamer confirmed in a statement on Thursday (December 10).

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN snared a massive rights deal with the Southeastern Conference that will put some of the nation’s most popular college-football games on the Disney sports-media giant or its sister broadcast network ABC, an agreement that sees the annual value of the games soar more than 440%.The deal is valued at around $300 million a year, according to people familiar with the matter, and will ensure that, starting in 2024, every SEC football and basketball game airs on a

We’re not done keeping up with the Kardashian-Jenners just yet, after all.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC has for years tried to sell glitzy video commercials to the nation’s biggest advertisers.

Fox News wants to talk more about the weather. On Wednesday, the Fox News Media division unveiled plans for an advertising-supported streaming weather service, Fox Weather, to debut in the third quarter of 2021 and complement the traditional news operation.

Fox News Media plans to launch an ad-supported streaming weather service in the third quarter of 2021, to be led by Sharri Berg.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIf the winds are shifting around cable-news in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Fox News Media intends to cover them: The company plans to launch an advertising-supported streaming weather service in the third quarter of 2021.Fox Weather will debut initially as a mobile app next year, accompanied by a website and streaming service that features local, regional and national weather updates, as well as live programming.