National Assn. Of Broadcasters Adds Byron Allen. Others To TV Board

Byron Allen's Allen Media Broadcasting has acquired seven divestiture TV stations from Gray Television for $380 million. Gray spun the TV stations off as part of a separate deal to acquire Quincy Media for $925 million.

Gray Television said Thursday that it has sold seven television stations to Byron Allen’s Allen Media Broadcasting for $380 million in cash, part of a divestiture related to Gray’s purchase earlier this year of Quincy Media.

Naman Ramachandran Three River Studios (“Trackers”) has optioned the rights to develop, finance and produce a live action, returnable TV series based on Bryan Talbot’s cult graphic novels “The Adventures of Luther Arkwright” and its sequel “Heart of Empire.”Written for a mature readership and born out of the anti-establishment wave of the 1970s and 1980s, and as a protest against the far right, the graphic novel series is among the most significant produced out of the U.K.

Oops! Maren Morris and her husband, Ryan Hurd, laughed off an article that mistakenly claimed Luke Bryan is their 13-month-old son Hayes’ father.

Maren Morris is reacting to a news outlet’s mistaken claim that Luke Bryan is the father of her son Hayes.

No part of the media business is more crowded than streaming, with thousands of subscription-based and free services continuing to hit the market. Despite the glut, Byron Allen believes he has two new offerings with something unique to bring to the party.

There’s nothing like a romantic ballad to win over the judges.

Manhattan star Mariel Hemingway has suggested that the Woody Allen film would “100 per cent” not be released today.The 1979 romantic comedy follows a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer (Allen) as he dates a 17-year-old girl (Hemingway), and was recently re-evaluated in HBO documentary Allen v.

Luke Bryan will return to “American Idol” for a live broadcast tonight, sources tell Variety, after being sidelined from last week’s first live episode of the season — and also tonight’s Academy of Country Music Awards — as a result of contracting COVID-19.Shortly after this story was first published, Bryan tweeted (and the “Idol” account quote-tweeted) a short video message in which he declared, “Hey guys, it’s Luke.

Burt Lancaster, the hugely versatile actor with a background as a circus acrobat. The words form the title of a 1996 documentary about the star, and also serve as a metaphor for the risks Lancaster took in his film career, both as an actor resolutely refusing to be typecast, and as a powerful and fearless independent producer, one of the first Hollywood stars to form his own production company.

Stephen Glass and Allan Russell for the first time.And next week he’ll enter battle with the final part of the new Aberdeen management team – Scott Brown.The duo have crossed swords plenty of times in the past and Wednesday will be no different.

Bobby Brown revealed that he believes Nick Gordon is responsible for the deaths of Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown.  Houston died in 2012 at age 48.The late music icon was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton hotel room with drugs in her system.Three years later, her and Brown’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, was found face-down in the bathtub of her Georgia home with drugs also in her system and died months later in hospice care after falling into a coma.  Speaking on the latest

The WWE Universe was treated right with two joyful days of wrestling, courtesy of WrestleMania 37.

The Oscars are aiming to be more like a movie than a television show and enlisting A-list stars like Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Halle Berry and Reese Witherspoon to help hand out statuettes.They’ll be joined by the likes of Don Cheadle, Renee Zellweger, Regina King, Joaquin Phoenix, Rita Moreno, Laura Dern, Zendaya, Angela Bassett, Bryan Cranston, Marlee Matlin and last year’s best director winner Bong Joon Ho, the show’s producers said Monday.“In keeping with our awards-show-as-a-movie approach,

93rd Oscars, which continues to hype Hollywood's big night as a cinematic experience in and of itself. As such, presenters at the 2021 Academy Awards are now the «cast.»Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Bong Joon Ho, Don Cheadle, Bryan Cranston, Laura Dern, Harrison Ford, Regina King, Marlee Matlin, Rita Moreno, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, Renée Zellweger and Zendaya make up the first batch of presenters.

Paula Abdul is stepping into Luke Bryan's shoes. The 44-year-old country singer announced on Monday that he's in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19, and will miss the first of 's live shows on April 12.Abdul, who was an judge for eight seasons, from 2002 to 2009, will judge in Bryan's place, alongside Lionel Richie and Katy Perry, ABC announced on Monday.This marks the first time Abdul has appeared on since the show moved from Fox to ABC in 2018.«Luke will be missed at our first

WrestleMania 37 continued to wreak havoc and provide fans with unfiltered entertainment as the event continued to rake in millions of viewers. After some epic clashes on Sunday, WrestleMania fans were in for a treat as Roman Reigns, Edge and Daniel Bryan came together for a triple bout.