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More than a year after launching Disney+, a clear success with just shy of 94.9 million global subscribers, Disney has so far reported the least amount of viewership data of any major streaming competitor. The company’s quarterly earnings call today with Wall Street analysts continued the close-to-the-vest trend…

MTV Entertainment Group has promoted veteran executives Lance McPherson and Bahareh Kamali to key roles. McPherson has been elevated to Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs, and Kamali to Executive Vice President of Strategic Development. McPherson, who oversees the business…

Beck Media & Marketing has elevated former Hulu and Warner Bros. executive Tom McAlister to president and named him as its first partner. Beck founder and CEO Todd Beck made the announcement today. In his newly expanded role, McAlister will oversee all of Beck's account teams and operations across its locations in…

Twitter wants to make its content moderation more transparent and its appeals process more robust, and to work some more on an open source initiative called Blue Sky that could relieve pressure on the company as a centralized curator of content. So says CEO Jack Dorsey, speaking at a Goldman Sachs virtual investor…

Connor Schell, the former ESPN content chief who left the Disney-owned sports network last year, is setting up a non-scripted studio with Chernin Entertainment. Schell, an exec producer on O.J: Made In America and The Last Dance, will be CEO of the unnamed venture, which will produce high-end, non-fiction projects for…

Forest Road Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (or SPAC) backed by the eponymous entertainment finance firm with a Hollywood-heavy roster of advisors has found its target, announcing plans to buy digital fitness specialist Beachbody Company and take it public. The transaction involves a three-way…

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Fox News is not about to adjust its political orientation despite a bumpy period during and after the 2020 presidential election and a recent slip in its ratings. The network’s ratings have dropped about 13% in recent weeks, putting the network in the rare position of trailing CNN…

Despite a ratings slip for Fox News in recent weeks and the specter of a pending lawsuit over 2020 election fraud claims by its hosts, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott has been signed to a multi-year extension. Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch announced the re-upping during the company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings…

EXCLUSIVE: EJ Laratta and Melissa Radzimski have joined Religion of Sports in the respective roles of Head of Partnerships and Director of Social Video and Audience Growth. Laratta was previously VP of Partnerships at Red Bull North America where he led partnerships with brands such as BFGoodrich, Activision, Kia…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime John Wells Productions executive Ned Haspel has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer. He was previously EVP, Business and Financial Affairs. Haspel joined JWP as VP of Business Operations in 1999. Based in Los Angeles and reporting to Wells, he handles all of the company's business affairs…

EXCLUSIVE: Film and TV exec and producer Mark Bauch has been named SVP of Imagine Entertainment's Feature Film Group. Bauch will be responsible for bringing in new projects, helping to oversee the development and packaging of Imagine’s current feature slate, as well as targeting IP and books. Bauch is pivoting to…

A year after Legendary brought in Chris Albrecht to launch Legendary Global, the former Starz CEO is taking over the company’s entire TV operation. Legendary is consolidating its international (Legendary Global) and domestic TV businesses under Albrecht, who has been named Head of Legendary Television. Nick Pepper…