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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLogan Paul, the YouTube creator and digital influencer who’s built a career as a pro fighter, has signed a contract to be a WWE Superstar.Now that Paul is officially under contract with WWE, sources familiar with the pact said, he will stay with the wrestling entertainment company for the near future and will perform across multiple events, which would take him through next year. He’s previously appeared on “WWE Smackdown” and “WrestleMania.”WWE and Paul shared the news Thursday on social media and share photos of his visit to the company’s headquarters in Stamford, Conn.

Joe Lieberman has passed away.

Jaden Thompson Herman Raucher, a best-selling author and the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of “Summer of ’42,” died Dec. 28 of natural causes at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Conn. He was 95.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterJimmy Kimmel and Brent Montgomery’s media company Wheelhouse has taken a stake in former Food Network president Courtney White’s new food and lifestyle-focused production company Butternut Films, which will now be renamed Butternut under the joint venture.As president of Butternut, which was launched when White exited Food Network this spring, White will collaborate with Wheelhouse leadership and across all Wheelhouse divisions — including Wheelhouse Entertainment, marketing arm Wheelhouse Labs, digital division Wheelhouse DNA, and investment department Wheelhouse 360 — “leveraging her deep production and creative expertise in culinary, home, design and lifestyle programming, and her wide-ranging relationships with talent and brands,” per Wheelhouse. Butternut is focused on creating original content for all platforms, “working with a range of established, emerging and home-grown talent.”White and her Butternut team will continue to work out of a clapboard barn on her family’s Southport, Conn., fresh-cut flower farm, Butternut Farm, as well as Wheelhouse’s New York and Los Angeles headquarters, and have full access to Wheelhouse’s large-scale campus in Stamford, Conn., dubbed “The Village.”The Wheelhouse-Butternut joint venture was brokered by Wheelhouse chief strategy officer Ed Simpson.“The single, common element across all successful lifestyle content is passion — talent must project it, creators must harness it, audiences must feel it,” White said.

China to NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, to host Wednesday's and Thursday's shows before heading to Los Angeles on Friday to anchor Olympic and Super Bowl coverage through Sunday.Tirico will then head back to Stamford for the final week of Olympic coverage. The Games conclude on Feb.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOn the first day of the Olympic Games, the “Today” show had an unenviable task.The flagship NBC morning show is a key engine for goosing excitement over the Olympics, and its Friday-morning broadcast recapping the just-concluded opening ceremony in Beijing was intended, in part, to boost the Games. But the show’s flagship talent, Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie, were stuck stateside in light of COVID-19, and the happy chatter about athletes’ prospects in the days ahead was balanced with an unusual volume of conversation about geopolitics.

Dan Hicks had a short drive from his home to NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, the past two years to call the French Open and some World Cup skiing events. He didn't imagine he would be doing it for an Olympics, though.With China's strict policy about those who test positive for COVID-19, Hicks and most of NBC's announcers for the Beijing Games are stationed stateside. Hicks was in Tokyo to call swimming for last year's Summer Games, when NBC had its announcers on site for the marquee sports.While Hicks would like to be at the ski venue in Yanqing to call the competition, he realizes it isn't feasible.“I was bummed.

not be sending announcers or the majority of hosts to Beijing for its coverage of the winter Olympic games. Instead, the network’s play by play coverage and the majority of other coverage will be handled from the Stamford, Connecticut headquarters of NBC sports.“Something significant has changed virtually every day for the last three months, forcing us to adjust our plan numerous times.

Alan Kalter, the longtime announcer on The Late Show with David Letterman, has died at the age of 78.

Alan Kalter, who was the announcer and sometimes comic foil for CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman from 1995 until it wrapped after the host’s retirement in 2015, died on Monday, Deadline has confirmed. He was 78.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAlan Kalter, the “voice” of CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman” for most of its run, has died, Variety has confirmed. He was 78.According to Rabbi Joshua Hammerman of Temple Beth El in Stamford, Conn., Kalter died at Stamford Hospital, with wife Peggy and his daughters Lauren Hass and Diana Binger at his side.Kalter took over as Letterman’s announcer on Sept.

EXCLUSIVE: Not a happy day in Stamford, Connecticut today as WWE had a round of layoffs that impact its film, TV and social media divisions in Connecticut and Los Angeles. Trying to find out the exact number, but WWE Studios saw layoffs in the feature, TV, and its digital/social media division Advanced Media Group.

The 2013 police shooting death of Miriam Carey has received new attention after the Capitol riot last week caused many Black activists to draw contrasts between the responses to the predominantly pro-Trump White crowd and to the George Floyd unrest over the summer. Carey, a 34-year-old dental hygienist from Stamford, Conn., was shot and killed by U.S.

STAMFORD, Conn. -- With the previews about to start, a trickle of masked moviegoers made their way into one of the first U.S.

Henri Stout Dirt Real Estate EditorIn preparing to design Glen House, which maverick architect Richard Neutra completed in Stamford, Conn. in 1960, the designer camped out on the site under a full moon.

John Macurdy, a bass who sang 1,001 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over four decades and created characters in notable world premieres, has died at 91, his wife said Wednesday (May 13).Macurdy died of natural causes on May 7 in Stamford, Connecticut, Justine Macurdy said.His career included world premieres of Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights at the Santa Fe Opera in 1958, Hugo Weisgall’s Six Characters in Search of an Author at the New York City Opera in 1959, Abraham Ellstein’s The

During the latest edition of WWE SmackDown, Lacey Evans brutally defeated Sasha Banks in a high voltage match and qualified for the big Money In The Bank event. The show is scheduled to take place next month at WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. The eagerly awaited event will feature WWE superstars fighting for a briefcase that containing a contract for a championship match. The winner can then chose a place and time, according to their own convenience, for a world championship match.

As production began Thursday night in Stamford, Conn., on the new HBO Max ballroom voguing competition series “Legendary,” producers confirmed the role of “The Good Place” star Jameela Jamil on the show.