Fox News Media to Launch Weather Streaming Service

You can add Pedro Almodóvar to the list of filmmakers not entirely happy with the rise of streaming in the movie industry. The Spanish filmmaker was among a group of filmmakers who signed a letter calling for a levy that would make streaming services re-invest part of their turnover in European countries back into independent cinema.

Christmas just got a lot less festive for Fox News Channel, Newsmax and Rudy Giuliani because of a threatened big bucks defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.

Daft Punk have released a new deluxe edition of their TRON: Legacy soundtrack on streaming platforms, featuring songs that have never previously been available on services.The dance duo created the soundtrack to the movie, which was released in 2010.While all of the tracks on the new edition have been available in some form, nine of them were only released on vinyl or as exclusives on various digital stores.‘TRON: Legacy – The Complete Edition’ was released on December 18 – 10 years and one day

Grimes has changed the cover of her album ‘Miss Anthropocene’ on streaming services – see the new artwork below.In April, Claire Boucher shared an Instagram photo of the cover now seen online, calling it the “original” album cover, and her favourite version.“I polled a bunch of ppl and everyone said not to use it (??),” she wrote at the time, “but I wish I trusted my gut. I fucking LOVE this painting.“Maybe there’s a way to utilise it still,” she added at the time.

Bring Me The Horizon‘s 2016 show at The Royal Albert Hall will be available on streaming services as of tomorrow (December 18).‘Live At The Albert Hall’ captures a performance in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust, for which they were accompanied by a full orchestra.live at the royal albert hall.

EXCLUSIVE: Journalists Rembert Browne and Jewel are to co-host a podcast examining the political forces at work in Georgia responsible for the state flipping blue.

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

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News said it extended primetime host Laura Ingraham’s contact with the network, ensuring her 10 p.m. program, “The Ingraham Angle,” will remain in its lineup for the foreseeable future.Fox News characterized the new pact as a “multi-year deal.” Ingraham joined Fox News Channel full-time in October of 2017 after establishing herself with a long-running radio program.

BBC Studios has pulled the curtain back on its latest global streamer, BBC Select, which will go live across the U.S. and Canada early next year and is being characterized as a TV service for “independent thinkers.”

Common Sense Networks, the for-profit media arm of Common Sense Media, plans to launch a streaming service for kids in 2021. Sensical will be a free, ad-supported streaming platform, offering up shortform entertainment programming for children ages 2 to 12.Its library will includes titles from major media partners like ABC Commercial and Sesame Workshop and fromdigital-first creators including Bounce Patrol and Mother Goose Club.

Common Sense Media’s for-profit affiliate has announced the 2021 launch of Sensical, a free streaming platform aiming to deliver a highly vetted collection of short-form videos for kids aged 2 to 12.

The Federal Trade Commission is issuing orders to nine social media and video streaming platforms for data on how they collect personal information of their users.

Barring a huge legal surprise that keeps President Trump in the White House, he leaves with positive ratings for his handling of the economy, but mixed reviews from voters on other issues -- and for his performance overall.

Disney has revealed more details of its international launch of general entertainment streaming service Star.

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.

Fox Corp. chief financial officer Steve Tomsic has a warning to outgoing President Donald Trump or anyone else looking to launch a new conservative cable news network to cut into Fox News' audience share.

Fox News Channel has named Tom Lowell executive vp and managing editor of news. In the new role Lowell will be responsible for managing the channel's daytime news programming.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTon Lowell, a veteran producer whose ties to anchors like Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly put him in charge of some of Fox News Channel’s best known programs, has been named executive vice president and managing editor of news, and will oversee all daytime news editorial content and resources at the Fox Corporation-owned cable-news outlet.“From creating the top-rated morning news program ‘America’s Newsroom’ in 2007to leading newsgathering, Tom has made a formidable

Tom Lowell has been tapped as executive vice president and managing editor of news at Fox News, where he will oversee all daytime news editorial and news resources.