Ocean MacAdams has departed Group Nine Media’s Thrillist, the lifestyle digital media brand covering food, drink, travel and entertainment, after two and half years, Variety has learned. With MacAdams’ exit, Thrillist will be headed by chief content officer Meghan Kirsch, a former Vice and A&E exec who joined the company last summer. It’s not clear [...]The coronavirus pandemic continues to escalate, with the death toll now topping 3,000 and as many as 90,000 confirmed cases of the disease.
James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s younger son, has a new mission: He wants to help try to “fix the internet.” James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems, the investment company he established after exiting as CEO of 21st Century Fox following the Disney deal, has joined up with seed-stage venture-capital firm Betaworks to launch an incubator that will invest [...]Kelly Day, former head of Viacom Digital Studios, has a new gig at ViacomCBS as chief operating officer of ViacomCBS Networks International.
YouTube TV and Sinclair Broadcast Group reached a deal covering most of the Fox regional sports networks — but the internet TV service is dropping two of the RSNs, as well as the Yankees’ YES Network. The deal between Google and Sinclair will keep 19 of the 21 Sinclair-owned Fox RSNs on YouTube TV. The [...]SiriusXM to Broadcast Exclusive Concerts by U2, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish on New Channel
SiriusXM pulls out all the stops for its subscriber-only concerts, and today the network announced that it will broadcast some of its biggest of the past decade — including performances by Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish — on a dedicated limited-time channel, SiriusXM’s Superstar Concert Series, starting March [...