Streamers Put More Women in Charge of TV Shows Than Broadcast Networks, Study Finds

Pat Robertson, who turned a tiny Virginia television station into a global religious broadcasting network, is stepping down after a half-century running the “700 Club” on daily TV, the Christian Broadcasting Network announced on Friday.

according to the Wrap.“My replacement will be my very capable son, Gordon, who will take over as full-time host of the program,” he added of his 63-year-old son, who has been the show’s co-host and executive producer for the past two decades. Robertson began hosting “The 700 Club” in 1966, six years after founding CBN. The program’s name was inspired by a 1963 telethon Robertson hosted in which he asked 700 viewers to pledge $10 a month to the network.

Pat Robertson will step down as host of “The 700 Club,” a Christian-themed talk show that airs on the Christian Broadcast Network. His son, Gordon, will take over.“Today’s show will be my final as host of The 700 Club,” said Robertson on Friday’s show..

marijuana possession convictions. He later said on “The 700 Club” that marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government’s war on drugs had failed.In December 2007, Robertson’s son, Gordon, succeeded him as chief executive of CBN.

Fergie has announced the death of her dad, Pat Ferguson.

Naman Ramachandran There is a “a woeful lack of diversity within senior positions and key decision makers,” a five-year study commissioned by U.K. media regulator Ofcom has found.

football that was responsible.The network's Sunday night football franchise was by far last week's most-watched prime time program, as it traditionally is each fall. But NBC said it was the first time it won television's fall premiere week in 20 years when only entertainment programming — and not sports — is taken into account.NBC's Wednesday night slate of “Chicago” dramas is potent, particularly for younger viewers.

Pat Sajak and Vanna White are getting candid about the future of Wheel of Fortune.

Entertainment Tonight” how long they plan to stay on the air together.“We’re certainly closer to the end than the beginning,” Sajak admitted. “I’d like to leave before people tune in and look at me and say, ‘Ooh, what happened to him?'”“I wouldn’t bet on seeing us in, like, 10 years, I would say,” Sajak continued, before asking his letter-turner, “Is that fair [to say]?”“Probably, yes,” White chimed in.

said in a speech at the National Press Club after the study was released.“The media industry, and Hollywood in particular, is still the main image-defining and narrative-creating institution of American society.

The fall TV season begins in earnest Monday night with most of the broadcast networks premiering fresh seasons of returning series and/or new shows. With Premiere Week in mind, below is the programming grid for primetime shows from ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and the CW.

The initial findings of an anticipated study into the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine on children ages of 5-11 were released today, and the first results seem promising.

Jamie Lang “Content has never been more abundant, VOD streamers too,” argued the pitch for Conecta Fiction’s Tuesday night panel titled Streamers, the New Global Ecosystem, A Map Not to Get Lost, hosted by Galician native Maria Rua Aguete, senior research director for TV, video and advertising at Omdia in the U.K.Filling chairs at the virtual roundtable, a half-dozen executives from companies in Europe and Latin America shared their plans for the near future, highlighted key projects and

Los Campesinos! has given Twitch some credit for the extended success of the band in a recent interview.In the interview, with Last Donut Of The Night, David suggested that the continued popularity of the band, along with new Los Campesinos! fans, might partially have been influenced by Twitch streamers.

vinyl records than millennials.According to a survey conducted by MRC Data, 4,041 people aged 13 and over were questioned over the course of two weeks about their musical influences, inspirations and purchases, with 15 per cent of Generation Z respondents – people commonly identified as being born roughly between 1997 and 2012 – claiming to have purchased vinyl albums in the previous 12 months.This compared with only 11 per cent of millennials who said that they purchased vinyl over the last

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