You’re on PBS, Charlie Brown: Apple Will Share ‘Peanuts’ Holiday Specials With Public TV

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor“CBS This Morning” could get a new sunrise perch.CBS is contemplating a move that could harness a cavernous studio facility in the New York headquarters of its corporate parent, ViacomCBS, for use by CBS News — in particular its A.M.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen the coronavirus pandemic lifts, NBCUniversal expects to aim its movies at two very different groups of audience.Jeff Shell, the CEO of the large Comcast unit, expects a chunk of consumers to rNBeturn to movie theaters, emboldened, perhaps, by the chance to attend communal events outside their homes once again.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNielsen, best known for delivering TV ratings, is getting ready for a future when it gauges a lot more than what people are watching on TV.The media-measurement giant plans to launch a new system that examines how many impressions a show or commercial makes across a broader panoply of video windows that might include the TV screen, but also the one embedded in a smartphone or computer.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRashida Jones, an up-and-coming news executive at NBCUniversal, will take the reins at the company’s MSNBC cable-news outlet in February, according to a person familiar with the matter, setting her up to be the first Black executive to run one of the nation’s biggest cable-news outlets at time when that business is of growing importance to big media companies.Phil Griffin, who has been president of MSNBC for years, is expected to step down at the end of January,

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTon Lowell, a veteran producer whose ties to anchors like Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly put him in charge of some of Fox News Channel’s best known programs, has been named executive vice president and managing editor of news, and will oversee all daytime news editorial content and resources at the Fox Corporation-owned cable-news outlet.“From creating the top-rated morning news program ‘America’s Newsroom’ in 2007to leading newsgathering, Tom has made a formidable

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDan Abrams is eager to turn a burgeoning interest in bourbon and whiskey into a new line of business.The entrepreneur and legal journalist’s Abrams Media has acquired the spirts review site t8ke.review and will use it to launch Whiskey Raiders, a new online resource that Abrams says will appeal to both whiskey aficionados and novices.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorColonel Harland Sanders has for decades captured the fancy of the American public, usually over the course of dozens of 30-second commercials for KFC that break into TV programs.

Christmas music specials and the nostalgia of last century’s animated charmers. We’ll take any and all feel-good moments in a year of scarcity.Mariah and Dolly and Charlie Brown are among the comforts TV is offering this month, and not a moment too soon.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNational correspondents Jericka Duncan and  Adriana Diaz will take over as anchors of “CBS Weekend News,” the ViacomCBS unit said Friday.Diaz will anchor the Saturday broadcast from Chicago and Duncan will anchor Sundays from New York.More to come….

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAdvertisers in next year’s Super Bowl are hoping they will get to party like it’s pre-pandemic 2020.Earlier this year, Fox Corporation took in about $600 million in advertising revenue for its broadcast of Super Bowl LIV and pre- and post-game coverage, Lachlan Murdoch, the company’s executive chairman, said earlier this year.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNFL football games have long commanded TV’s biggest audiences. But Walt Disney is experimenting with bringing its gridiron broadcasts to some smaller viewer niches.Some of Disney’s biggest TV networks will “mega-cast” a January NFL Wild Card game across ESPN, ABC, Freeform, ESPN Deportes and ESPN2, part of a larger series of efforts the company has tried over the last year to woo different kinds of viewers to professional football.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAn unlikely guest turned up amid the dozens of Broadway actors, “Today” hosts and other celebrities who regularly take part in NBC’s annual broadcast of “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.”In a two-minute ad from Comcast, actor Steve Carell took a turn at playing Santa Claus, part of an emerging tradition that has the Philadelphia cable-and-entertainment giant hoping to capture attention during the annual event, telecast on the network it owns.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAnother media outlet is getting ready to vie for fans of sentimental stories in the industry’s massive holiday-programming wars.Fox Nation, the streaming-video hub that is part of Fox News Media, will launch its first holiday movie, “Christmas in the Rockies,” later this week, part of a new holiday salvo that is expected to include two other projects, “Christmas on the Range” and “Christmas on the Coast.” “Rockies” will be available on Fox Nation starting

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe sight of President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, throwing off conspiracy theories and hair dye yesterday in TV’s once-humdrum daytime hours, would not too long ago have proven to be catnip that no TV-news outlet could resist. Yesterday, many of them did.Few if any of the nation’s TV-news outlets aired live Thursday’s press conference from the legal team spearheading the president’s efforts to overturn the election.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBig advertisers have created an army of animated product ambassadors over the decades to help sell web services, insurance and suntan lotion. Toucan Sam, Tony the Tiger and Mr.

How Grinchy. Nothing’s been easy in 2020, and Twitter users have found fault with Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree, likening the evergreen to Charlie Brown’s sad sapling.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorGolf’s next big TV event will only feature one professional golfer on the green.On the day after Thanksgiving, WarnerMedia’s TNT will feature the latest iteration of “The Match,” a celebrity-golf showdown that pits big-name athletes and sports figures against each other in a telecast that nods to charity and owes as much to spectacle as it does to competition.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving! The Thanksgiving episode is the 10th holiday special in the Charlie Brown collection, and features everyone's favorite people pleaser trying to accommodate his friends who invite themselves over for Turkey Day. There is of course a history lesson from Linus and some Snoopy shenanigans thrown in for good measure. The beloved Charles M.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCaptify, a specialist in consumer search data, named Brendan Condon, a former senior executive for the ad-sales unit of Comcast’s cable division, as its global chief revenue officer, a sign that the company sees opportunity as the media industry starts to focus more heavily on how consumers utilize video delivered by broadband.Condon is charged with driving new growth opportunities for Captify, which delivers real-time consumer insights based on data from