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Honey Boo Boo Show Canceled Over Mom's Reported Relationship With Sex Offender
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is going off the air for an appalling reason. The hit TLC reality show about the misadventures of an Arkansas family has been canceled in the wake of reports that "Mama" June...
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Which Networks Made the Naughty and Nice Lists This Year?
As Dec. 25 approaches, parents are warning children to make sure they end up on Santa's nice list, and stay far away from his naughty list. But what if the big red guy was focusing on the TV networks'...
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Discovery Leverages Global Reach in Multi-Network Upfront
It's not uncommon to hear hyperbolic talk at upfront presentations, but when Discovery Channel president Rich Ross talked about reaching for the moon at the network's presentation in New York Tuesday,...
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TLC Removes 19 Kids and Counting From Schedule Following Molestation Claims
Here we go again: for the second time in seven months, TLC is embroiled in a child molestation scandal involving the stars of one of its most popular reality shows. On Thursday, In Touch Weekly...
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The Duggars’ TLC Future Increasingly in Doubt as Advertisers Flee
If TLC thought that the long Memorial Day holiday would make audiences—or advertisers—forget about its latest reality-show molestation controversy, then the network misjudged the severity of the...
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TLC Remains Mum as the Duggars Dig Themselves Into a Deeper Hole
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar kicked off their PR campaign last night, appearing on Fox News' The Kelly File in an attempt to salvage their family's reputation after they confirmed reports that their...
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Here’s Why TLC Isn't Talking About the Duggars
More than 19 days and counting. That's how long it's been (at press time) since TLC has publicly commented on the child molestation controversy that has enveloped the network and the Duggar family,...
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TLC Cancels 19 Kids and Counting
TLC has canceled one of its most successful reality shows nearly two months after it was revealed that one of its stars had molested several underage girls. Josh Duggar, one of 19 children of the...
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Canceling 19 Kids and Counting Cost Discovery $19 Million
When TLC canceled 19 Kids and Counting last month, the network knew it would take a hit. Now we know just how big that hit was. On this morning's earnings call, TLC's parent company, Discovery...
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How the Wahlbergs Are Using Reality TV to Turn Their Burger Business Into a...
Mark Wahlberg's career has taken some unexpected twists over the past three decades, but even the movie star acknowledges that his most recent turn is the most unusual yet. If someone had told him...
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Discovery Communications Is Thinking Globally (and Digitally) With...
Discovery Communications will be interacting with U.S. buyers and advertisers during this year's upfront presentations as always, but the company has shifted to a global focus on its content."The...
View ArticleSnapchat Is Celebrating Black History Month With an AR Museum Featuring Young...
Snapchat is helping to mark Black History Month with what it is calling the first-ever augmented reality museum dedicated to young black artists. Starting Monday and running through the end of...
View ArticleThe Family Coppola Brand Hosted an Interactive Activation at Sundance in...
Ahead of Francis Ford Coppola's 80th birthday this coming April, The Family Coppola wine brand used the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to give fans the opportunity to send well wishes to the filmmaking...
View ArticleA Mozilla-Led Coalition Is Pushing Facebook for Greater Political Ads...
A Mozilla-led coalition of groups in Europe in fields including technology, human rights, academics and journalism sent a letter to Facebook urging the social network to release an...
View ArticleEdelman Hires Creative Veteran Behind Leo Burnett’s ‘Like a Girl’ as Its...
Edelman had a message for last summer's Cannes Lions festival: we do creative now, too. Since giving up its fight against paid media back in 2013, the world's largest independent communications firm...
View ArticleHow Infomercials Almost Ruined Cher’s Career
The early 1990s were tough years for Cher. Battling chronic fatigue syndrome and unsure of her next career move, she signed up for some easy dough by appearing in that most maligned of TV contrivances,...
View ArticleCan an Ad Save a Doomed Plane?
Thirty-eight years ago, a major airline manufacturer was in serious trouble and hoped a bit of advertising would bail it out. Adweek's July 14, 1980, issue carried the news of a new campaign aimed at...
View ArticleLove USA Today or Hate it, the ‘McPaper’ Prefigured Internet Content
It was only a tiny story in Adweek's June 29, 1981 issue--"Gannett Releases Prototypes of National Daily"--but it flagged what would become one of the decade's biggest media stories. Al Neuharth, the...
View ArticleLinkedIn Live: The Professional Network Is Conducting a Pilot Test of Live...
Live video is finally coming to LinkedIn, at least for a few select broadcasters in the U.S. that are part of its pilot program. The professional network introduced native video for users in August...
View ArticleAmazon Is Bringing Wi-Fi Routers In-House by Acquiring Eero
Amazon is acquiring mesh Wi-Fi start-up Eero in a move that will let the Seattle-based giant expand its ever expanding assortment of smart-home capabilities. The acquisition, announced today, gives...
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