Local Stations Have Chosen Impressions Over Ratings. Nielsen Will Join Them

Jesy Nelson has released her new single ‘Boyz’ today and it features a verse from Nicki Minaj – listen to it below.The song samples Diddy’s ‘Bad Boy 4 Life’ and is the first new music Nelson has shared since announcing her departure from Little Mix.The video for the song sees Nelson moving into a new neighbourhood and annoying her neighbours with loud music after arriving on a tour bus. Minaj appears later on in the video and performs her guest verse from the garage in Nelson’s new house.Minaj

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDaytime TV veteran Talia Parkinson-Jones has been named the new executive producer of the fourth hour of NBC’s “Today” show, placing a new supervisor atop an hour that helps the network reach critical morning audiences.Parkinson-Jones will oversee an hour that is anchored by Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. She is slated to take on the new role starting on Oct.

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.

Little Mix have appeared to make a dig at their former bandmate Jesy Nelson in the lyrics of their new song. The band are gearing up to release their new song, called Cut You Off, and in one lyric the girls talk about how they need to "protect their energy" and would happily cut anyone off who weren't adding to their positivity.

Pop favourites Little Mix are set to release their new single Cut You Off from their new album Between Us and it appears there may be a swipe within the song to their ex-bandmate Jesy Nelson. The three remaining band members took to Little Mix’s official Instagram page to share a video about their new release with their 14.9 million followers.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Lucifer and Spartacus star Lesley-Ann Brandt is partnering with Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment on the development of Hanover Street, a drama series set in Cape Town’s District Six.

Who will it be? Daniel Craig will say goodbye to James Bond after the premiere of No Time to Die in September 2021 — and fans have questions about the next actor in line.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe TV industry, long measured by Nielsen, continues to offer up new yardsticks to Madison Avenue.ViacomCBS said it would take a more active role in the TV industry’s ongoing quest to develop new audience-measurement alternatives by teaming up with data company VideoAmp and developing a new means of tracking the reach of advertising among linear and digital viewers.

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.

Johnny Depp played a LAPD officer in the little noticed City of Lies earlier this year. Now the one-time Pirates of the Caribbean star is dragging the City of Angels’ finest into his $50 million legal battle with Amber Heard.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie‘s legal battle continues.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWho’s really going to be in charge?NBCUniversal and a group leading the nation’s big TV companies are both jockeying to find ways to create a media-measurement rival to Nielsen, but an organization that represents some of Madison Avenue’s largest advertisers is warning the media entities to proceed with caution.“If NBC wants to do something for NBC, they are well within their rights.

Here is the complete list of 2021-2023 DGA Officers and National Board Members:PresidentLesli Linka GlatterNational Vice-PresidentMary Rae ThewlisSecretary-TreasurerParis BarclayAssistant Secretary-Treasurer Joyce ThomasFirst Vice-PresidentBetty ThomasSecond Vice-PresidentRon HowardThird Vice-PresidentBarry JenkinsFourth Vice-PresidentSeith MannFifth Vice-PresidentAva DuVernaySixth Vice-PresidentLily OlszewskiBoard MembersJon AvnetNorberto BarbaKaren GaviolaJulie GelfandDuncan HendersonTodd