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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMark Evans will take over sports ad sales for Fox Corp.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNeil Cavuto, one of the longest-serving anchors at Fox News Media, has said he tested positive for coronavirus and will take a break from his regular anchoring duties on Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.Cavuto has for years been open about health challenges he faces. He has multiple sclerosis, and had open-heart surgery in 2016.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN’s coming foray into the streaming wars will send the network searching for customers in both regular haunts and surprising places.The WarnerMedia cable-news outlet typically runs a significant chunk of promotions for its programming on its own air and in other venues owned by its parent company. On Friday, it’s airing an initial ad to entice loyal viewers to consider CNN Plus, its new video-streaming service slated to launch in 2022.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorViewers of ABC are accustomed to seeing George Stephanopoulos each weekday morning on “Good Morning America” and on Sundays on “This Week.” Soon, they may be able to see more of his work at many different times.Stephanopoulos will debut two long-form programs on Hulu, all part of a new production company ABC News is launching with him.  George Stephanopoulos Productions is expected to specialize in nonfiction projects that include news-making interviews as well

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBCUniversal is on a quest to find something often believed elusive: a new system of measuring TV audiences who don’t always use traditional television to watch their favorite shows.

Italian club Venezia have announced the signing of former Manchester United goalkeeper Sergio Romero on a free transfer.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAlexandre Desplat won’t have to worry about competing against himself at the Oscars this year in the original score category.The two-time Oscar-winning composer is a favorite to pick up a nom for his work on Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch.” He was also set to provide the music for Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley,” but he’s had to back out of the noir thriller because of scheduling.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBomani Jones, the versatile ESPN personality who has gained traction with appearances on shows like “Highly Questionable” and “Around the Horn,” has found a new outlet for his work. But it’s not ESPN.

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.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFans of ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” might get something next week they won’t be expecting — a tribute to hockey.The Disney-backed sports-media giant expects to spend part of its next halftime show treating viewers to a concert as well as a surprise visit from someone who is emblematic of the icy pastime, says Mark Gross, senior vice president of production and remote events, in an interview. He declined to name the person likely to appear.

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 EditorKatie Nolan, who captured attention in recent years for her facility with digital sports media, has left ESPN about four years after jumping to the Disney sports outlet from Fox Sports.Nolan on Wednesday released a statement on social media telling followers that “I no longer work at ESPN. I’m really grateful for my time here.

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 EditorBeck Bennett, the versatile “Saturday Night Live” player who has won notice for his impressions of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCraig Robinson’s career is marked by moments of high comedy, but his latest project has him relying on something different — choreography.The actor, known for his turns on “The Office,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Hot Tub Time Machine,” among others, is working on a new project on behalf of Procter & Gamble that aims to get consumers to harness their sense of smell.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani hasn’t been on Fox News Channel for a while, but he is not banned, despite a report asserting otherwise.

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

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBSN represented the first effort by one of the traditional broadcast networks to get into the news streaming game, and its name was meant to evoke digital concepts. But that was so 2014.CBS News intends to phase out the CBSN moniker later this year and give its streaming effort the same identity its other products have: CBS News.

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.