Major League Rugby and OS Studios Partner to Set Benchmark for Rugby Storytelling
Major League Rugby (MLR) has entered a multi‑year partnership with OS Studios, appointing the media firm as its chief engine for broadcast production, social content, and fan‑engagement strategy. The collaboration leverages OS Studios' expertise in gaming, music, and creator culture to build a community‑first platform that lets fans co‑author rugby storytelling. A flagship initiative is the new Referee Review System, which replaces the traditional TMO with a real‑time, fan‑centric replay model. Both parties aim to position MLR as the most accessible, community‑driven sports league in North America by 2035, ahead of the 2031 and 2033 Rugby World Cups hosted in the U.S.
Don’t Get Mad, Get Even: Why Advertising Needs a Revenge Arc
The article argues that advertising has lingered in an endless apology cycle and should adopt a "revenge arc"—a bold, corrective narrative that turns criticism into opportunity. It cites recent campaigns where brands responded to backlash with assertive messaging, generating higher...
GB News Hires Chief Revenue Officer to ‘Close Gap’ Between Audience Growth and Advertiser Take-Up
GB News has appointed Ross Sergeant as chief revenue officer to bridge the gap between its rapidly expanding audience and advertising sales. Sergeant arrives from Allwyn, where he served as global media director, and brings experience from Asahi, Diageo and...
New Gravity Media Remote Production Facility Drives 900 Hours of ITV Programming
Gravity Media has launched a remote production gallery in Covent Garden to support ITV Studios’ MultiStory Media output, delivering 900 hours of live daily programming across shows like Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women. The facility features a 360‑degree LED set, 13...
ESPN Delivers Most-Watched MLB Spring Training Game in 10 Years with Team USA Vs. San Francisco Giants
ESPN’s March 3 spring‑training game between Team USA and the San Francisco Giants attracted 677,000 viewers, the network’s most‑watched spring‑training broadcast in a decade. The matchup lifted ESPN’s 2026 spring‑training average to 580,000, a 101 % increase over 2025, according to Nielsen. The surge...
Foos Gone Wild, Combate Global Launch New Televised MMA Fight Series
Foos Gone Wild and Combate Global announced a new amateur MMA series called Foos Fighting Championship, debuting March 26 in Burbank, California. The event will be broadcast live in Spanish on EstrellaTV and in English on Foos Gone Wild’s YouTube channel,...
Picnic Launches ‘Quality Video’ to Bring Transparency to Open-Web Video Buying
Picnic has launched Quality Video, an extension of its PIQ platform that evaluates open‑web video inventory based on real‑time behavior rather than static DSP labels. The solution measures signals such as pause on scroll, simultaneous playback, auto‑play and audio settings,...
Nano Interactive Launches NanoQ Agentic Media Planner Built to Transform Programmatic Planning
Nano Interactive unveiled NanoQ, an agentic AI media planner that automates audience creation and activation. Built on the company’s intent data and the continuously refreshed Intent Library, NanoQ translates natural‑language briefs into custom and off‑the‑shelf segments. In internal tests the...
Cumulus Moves to Dismiss ‘Retaliatory’ Nielsen Counterclaims
Cumulus Media filed a motion to dismiss all three of Nielsen's counterclaims stemming from an antitrust lawsuit, labeling them retaliatory tactics. The counterclaims—breach of contract, unfair competition, and declaratory judgment—rely on a single email allegedly sharing Nielsen data with Eastlan...
MOFA Closes Taiwan Review, to Shut Taiwan Today in Late 2026
Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the shutdown of two long‑standing outreach outlets. The bimonthly magazine Taiwan Review, in print since 1951, ceased publication on March 4 and will fully terminate staff contracts by June 30. Its sister platform, the multilingual news...
Don’t Rob Your Sellers Of Their Greatest Power
The article argues that radio sales managers waste leverage by managing hope instead of measurable activity. It introduces "Time Spent Selling" as the true super‑power—focused, high‑quality interactions rather than idle research or optimistic forecasts. Managers should track and coach consistent,...
SI FanOS Powers Interactive Rally Predictor to Drive Community, Dwell Time and Conversion on Rally.TV
Sportz Interactive (SI) has teamed with the WRC Promoter to launch an interactive Rally Predictor on Rally.TV, built on SI’s proprietary Predictor Engine. The tool lets fans forecast stage results, driver performance and head‑to‑head battles throughout the World Rally Championship...
Wedotv BIG Stories and Wedotv Movies Launch on Freeview UK
wedotv has introduced its documentary channel wedotv BIG stories on Freeview UK, occupying channel 275, while wedotv movies now broadcasts as a full DTT channel on slot 98. Both services are built on Synapse’s FAST architecture, server‑side ad insertion and...
Digest: Axel Springer Acquires Telegraph for £575m; Indonesia to Implement Social Media Ban for Under-16s; UK Delays AI Copyright Rule...
Axel Springer agreed to buy the UK’s Telegraph for £575 m, ending a three‑year ownership limbo and fending off a Daily Mail bid. The deal marks the first change of hands in the paper’s 168‑year history. Meanwhile, Indonesia announced a phased...
A Closer Look at Saudi Arabia’s Creative Economy
Saudi Arabia’s creative economy is rapidly moving from the periphery to a strategic pillar of Vision 2030, driven by growth in advertising, gaming, design and content production. The sector is thriving amid a layered, globally‑connected Saudi society that demands more nuanced...
“Everyone’s Hiding Something” In Trailer For The BBC’s ‘Crookhaven’ Adaptation
BBC Studios is set to debut "Crookhaven", a teen‑drama adaptation of J.J. Arcanjo’s novels, on March 22. The series follows a secret school for young crooks who compete for the Crooked Cup while confronting the mysterious threat known as The Nameless....
Nine Cops the Worst of It on Historically Bad Day for Unmade Index
Nine Entertainment saw its shares plunge 6.97%, wiping out over $95 million in market value as the ASX200 opened down nearly 4% on an oil‑price shock. The broader Unmade Index fell to a record low of 378.3 points, reflecting heightened cost...
MPs to Quiz YouTube on Children’s TV and Video Content
Senior YouTube executives will appear before the UK Culture, Media and Sport Committee on March 10 to answer questions about the platform’s role in children’s television and video consumption. Ofcom data shows YouTube is now the most‑used app or site among...
The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk
The article argues that ad‑tech’s reliance on granular identity data created an inherent privacy risk, a point long raised by privacy advocates. Real‑time bidding and massive data extraction expose location and behavioral signals to a sprawling ecosystem of unknown parties....
John Oliver Earnestly Lobbies For A Role On A Daytime Soap Opera
John Oliver used a ten‑minute segment on Last Week Tonight to publicly lobby for a guest role on a daytime soap opera, citing Stephen A. Smith’s recent cameo on General Hospital as inspiration. He outlined specific character traits—ridiculous name, dramatic...
Stephen Colbert Rejects “Implied Parallel” To Blacklisted Screenwriter Walter Bernstein While Receiving Writers Guild Awards Honor
Stephen Colbert accepted the Writers Guild’s Walter Bernstein Award, honoring creators who confront social injustice, but he rejected any implied parallel to the blacklisted screenwriter. He emphasized that the 1950s Hollywood blacklist was an industry‑wide pact, not a law, and...
Federal Judge Rules that Kari Lake's Actions At Voice of America Are Null And Void
A federal judge declared Kari Lake's actions at the Voice of America illegal, nullifying layoffs that affected more than 1,000 journalists and staff. Former U.S. trade chief Robert Lighthizer stepped down from the board of Trump Media & Technology, raising...
EBay Sponsors Sky’s Saturday Night Live UK
Sky Media has named eBay as the headline partner for the UK launch of Saturday Night Live, bringing the American comedy brand to British screens on March 21. The deal centers on eBay Live, the platform’s interactive shopping experience, with eBay‑branded...
X Tests New Ad Format that Includes Product Mention Links
X is piloting a new ad format that automatically attaches product‑mention links to user posts, as seen with a Starlink CTA under a tweet. The format blends ads with organic content without compensating users, aiming to avoid skewed incentives. X...
Top TVNZ Shows
TVNZ’s latest six‑month results reveal 1News At Six as the clear leader across both its TVNZ+ streaming app and traditional broadcast, attracting 726,000 viewers and nearly 20 million streams. News programmes such as Seven Sharp and Breakfast also rank among the...
Foxtel Kicks Off NRL Season With 39% New Sponsors On Board
Foxtel Media announced that 39% of advertisers for the 2026 NRL season are brand‑new, joining returning partners such as Westpac, McDonald’s and Toyota. New sponsors include Red Bull, Bunnings, Club 4×4 Insurance and Youi, while programmatic inventory expansion lets small regional...
The Aunty Donna Podcast Returns to Acast in New Partnership
Acast has inked a multi‑year agreement to host The Aunty Donna Podcast and the newly created Grouse House Podcast Network on its platform. The deal consolidates Australia’s leading independent comedy collective under one roof just as Aunty Donna prepares to...
Paradise Fans Need To Watch Julianne Nicholson's HBO Crime Miniseries Next
Julianne Nicholson’s Emmy‑winning turn in HBO’s Mare of Easttown makes it a must‑watch for fans of Hulu’s Paradise. Both series are whodunits set in tight‑knit Pennsylvania suburbs, but Mare adds a deeper emotional layer through authentic small‑town drama. The HBO...
Jacinda Ardern Calls for Stronger Social Media Accountability in Preventing Online Harm
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged treating social media platforms as publishers rather than neutral hosts, citing their role in amplifying harmful content. She highlighted the Christchurch mosque shooting livestream as a stark example of platform-facilitated harm and...
Before Stranger Things, David Harbour Starred In A Forgotten Margot Robbie Series
Pan Am, a 1960s‑era airline drama starring David Harbour as MI6 agent Roger Anderson and Margot Robbie as flight attendant Kate, debuted on NBC in 2011. The visually lavish series ran only 14 episodes, earning three Emmy nominations for music, special...
Jamie Durie Partners with LEADSTORY for Sustainability and Design Coverage
Australian designer and environmental advocate Jamie Durie has signed a partnership with global streaming platform LeadStory to produce original lifestyle programming. The new series will focus on sustainability, architecture and design, drawing on Durie's decades of experience in television and...
Apple’s Godzilla & Kong Blockbuster TV Show Immediately Becomes a Streaming Success
Apple TV+’s *Monarch: Legacy of Monsters* season 2 quickly rose to become the second‑most‑watched show on the platform in the United States, according to FlixPatrol, trailing only *Hijack* and *Shrinking*. The series introduces a new sea‑monster antagonist, Titan X, while keeping the...
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Confirms Exciting New Cast for Season 2 – Here's What We Know
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ has been renewed for a second season, slated for release next year. The upcoming season will see Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell return as Dunk and Egg, while Lucy Boynton, Babou Ceesay and Peter Mullan...
Why Nobody Was Happy With Gilligan's Island's Pilot Episode
The original Gilligan’s Island pilot, titled “Marooned,” was shot in November 1963 but ran into a cascade of setbacks, including the JFK assassination, a national mourning period that closed Honolulu harbor, and a two‑minute shortfall. Creative clashes between creator Sherwood Schwartz,...
Out-of-Home Measurement System Move Is Finally Live
The Outdoor Media Association (OMA) has launched the upgraded Move measurement platform, replacing Move 1.5 as the official out‑of‑home (OOH) standard from March 16. Move aggregates data from over 180,000 sites, modeling a synthetic audience of 2.2 million Australians based on 5,000...
How Marshals Will Explore Unresolved Yellowstone Storylines, From John's Fate To Jamie's 'Disappearance'
CBS’s Yellowstone spin‑off *Marshals* will weave subtle references to unresolved plotlines from its parent series, such as Kayke’s brother Jamie’s “disappearance” and Kayke’s choice to spare his father’s killer. Showrunner Spencer Hudnut says the series will use these Easter eggs...
Meteorologist Damien Lodes Joins KTVT Dallas
Damien Lodes began his tenure at CBS News Texas KTVT Dallas‑Fort Worth as a meteorologist in February 2026. He arrives from a senior role at AccuWeather, where he contributed to the national Storm Team delivering coast‑to‑coast severe‑weather forecasts. Previously, Lodes...
NATIONAL FORUM Launches Tonight as ABC Revives Town Square TV
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation launches ABC National Forum, a live, moderated discussion program airing tonight from its Ultimo studios. Hosted by David Speers, the inaugural episode focuses on Jewish Australians and the aftermath of the Bondi terrorist attack. Unlike the...
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: March 2, 2026 to March 6, 2026
The FCC released a draft Report and Order that modernizes broadcast licensing rules, replaces outdated CDBS references with LMS, and expands who may sign applications. The Media Bureau settled two consent decrees, penalizing an Arizona TV station for OPIF lapses...
Remote Control Gets More Intelligent
Radio broadcasters are transitioning from simple SNMP polling to agentic, IP‑native observability, where monitoring platforms act as autonomous copilots. Centralized Network Operations Centers, often cloud‑native and supported by MaaS platforms, now oversee hundreds of transmitters with integrated asset and ticketing...
39 Years Ago Today, ‘The A-Team’ Aired Its Final Episode on NBC
Today marks the 39th anniversary of the final broadcast of *The A‑Team*, which aired its last episode on March 8, 1987. The series launched after Super Bowl XVII in 1983, quickly climbing into the top‑10 ratings with household shares above 20 %. After four...
Why Cable TV Networks Won’t Switch To Free OTA TV
Cable networks such as ESPN, CNN and AMC continue to rely on subscriber carriage fees rather than moving to free over‑the‑air (OTA) television. In 2024 they collected over $40 billion in carriage fees, while advertising revenue declined about 10 % year‑over‑year. Technical...
Will Sling TV Be for Sale Soon?
Sling TV, a DISH/EchoStar subsidiary, introduced low‑cost daily Passes in 2025, attracting budget‑conscious cord‑cutters. Despite strong subscriber numbers—over 1.5 million—the parent’s strained balance sheet and costly 5G rollout have made Sling a non‑core asset. Analysts predict DISH may put Sling TV...
YouTube TV Rolls Out A New Build Your Own Plan Options to Help You Save Money
YouTube TV has launched a personalized subscription system that lets users build their own channel packages from 12 genre‑based bundles. The web‑only tool analyzes viewing history and suggests mixes of sports, entertainment, news and family channels, allowing customers to drop...
Chicago’s Q101, Boston’s WERS Celebrate Women’s History
Radio stations across the United States are using Women’s History Month to spotlight female musicians. In Chicago, Cumulus Media’s Q101 airs a daily noon segment called “The Women Who Make Q101,” hosted by Lauren O’Neil, culminating in a multi‑hour all‑female...
Patrick Dempsey's Crime Drama That's "Worth Sticking With" Jumps up UK Streaming Chart
Patrick Dempsey’s new crime drama *Memory of a Killer* has surged to #7 on Prime Video’s UK TV streaming chart, indicating strong viewer uptake since its January‑February rollout. The two‑part series follows Dempsey as Angelo Doyle, a photocopier salesman‑by‑day and...
AT&T Actress Milana Vayntrub Had A Key Role In A Controversial 2024 Netflix Series
Milana Vayntrub, known for AT&T ads, portrays prosecutor Pamela Bozanich in two episodes of Netflix’s true‑crime series *Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story*. Her scenes include revealing alleged prison sexual favors and confronting Erik Menendez in courtroom dramatizations. The...
CNN Once Again Preempts ‘Have I Got News For You’ To Continue Iran War Coverage
CNN preempted the Saturday broadcast of the U.S. version of *Have I Got News For You* and the preceding *Real Time With Bill Maher* to extend its live coverage of the escalating Iran war. The comedy slot will instead debut...
Why Home Improvement Stopped Seinfeld From Creating An Animated Episode
In the late 1990s Seinfeld’s writers explored a Claymation‑style episode for its ninth season, even meeting with stop‑motion pioneer Will Vinton. The concept was shelved after a writer discovered that Home Improvement had already aired a similar stop‑motion sequence in...
What Happened To Scott Bakula's Captain Archer After Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise introduced Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer, the first commander of the warp‑5 NX‑01 in a pre‑Federation era. The series ran four seasons, ending with Archer stepping away from the captain’s chair to become a senior Starfleet...