19 Major League Baseball reaches an agreement to broaden its offerings of online game broadcasts, together with staff-particular packages. ESPN’s protection of the game is simulcast on sister broadcast network ABC, making it the first National Football League game to air on the latter community since Super Bowl XL in 2006. ABC previously held the rights to Monday Night Football from 1970 till it shifted over to ESPN firstly of the 2006 season. In a statement by George DeVault, president of Holston Valley Broadcasting, homeowners of WKPT-Tv, he said that despite negotiating in good faith with a “loyal” affiliate of ABC, and having agreed in precept on a 5-year extension, the community had chosen to discover other choices, and showed a preference to being affiliated with a station owned by a larger group (WJHL-Tv is owned and operated by Media General). Sinclair Broadcast Group pronounces it is going to purchase Tennis Channel in a $350 million deal. For the primary time, the occasion combines classes comprising its previously separate television and film ceremonies right into a single three-hour telecast, the results of a September 2015 determination reached by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. KTSF 26/San Francisco’s primary signal transitioned from 4:Three to 16:9, which allowed native programming and the Cantonese and Mandarin newscasts to be broadcast in widescreen.
7 NBCUniversal formally launches Seeso, a subscription-based, over-the-prime streaming service featuring new and basic comedy programming including stand-up comedy specials, and episodes of collection comparable to Saturday Night Live and Monty Python’s Flying Circus as well as authentic series, was initially obtainable for $3.99 per thirty days. The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) investigates and spreads awareness about reside streaming sexual abuse. 17 Master of None and Mr. Robot are among the many notable Tv winners on the 21st Critics’ Choice Awards, an occasion simulcast reside on A&E, Lifetime and LMN. Both networks will every air and produce 5 games and NFL Network will simulcast these video games and air eight additional games solely. The sport can be simulcast in Spanish on ESPN Deportes. 9 The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Houston Texans in an AFC Wild Card playoff recreation. 7 Super Bowl 50, wherein the Denver Broncos defeat the Carolina Panthers, attracts 111.9 million viewers to CBS’ English-language broadcast, the third most watched program in Tv history. CBS affiliate WJHL-Tv in Johnson City, Tennessee, associates its DT2 subchannel with ABC, taking the Tri-Cities’ ABC affiliation from WKPT-Tv. That’s proper, Liberty City, I’m again and I’m on line and on air and on heat!
Freeform will maintain much of the previous ABC Family’s current programming together with function movies, sequence (including Shadowhunters, which premieres on this date), seasonal programming blocks, and religious applications (most notably weekday airings of The seven hundred Club, which CBN does require the channel to air. The airings, billed merely as Johnny Carson (as NBC has possession of The Tonight Show model) encompass episodes taped in Burbank between 1972 and 1992 (90-minute episodes made from 1980 and earlier air on weekends, while 60-minute broadcasts made from 1980 onward air weeknights). 18 In a sequence of tweets she acknowledged that while she had “only ever favored boys” in the past and that she was “open to liking any gender,” Girl Meets World star Rowan Blanchard, 14 on the time, confirms that she identifies as queer, marking the primary time a teenage entertainer from a present Disney Channel tv collection to return out and reveal their sexual desire. In tandem with the development of mass-produced toys, Enlightenment ideals about kids’s rights to schooling and leisure time came to fruition. That deal, introduced in September 2015, got here before Nexstar introduced its own larger, unsolicited bid for Media General.
27 Nexstar Broadcasting Group agrees to acquire Media General in a $4.6 billion deal. The class action lawsuit, filed by a gaggle of fans, sought to overturn MLB’s placement of territorial restrictions for “out of market” broadcasts and blackouts of “in market” video games. 29 Nexstar Broadcasting Group stations in nine markets are faraway from Cox Communications’ cable systems at midnight due to a retransmission dispute. More than a dozen tv stations owned by Cordillera Communications within the Western and Southern United States are removed from Dish Network in a retransmission dispute. The E. W. Scripps Company and Time Warner Cable quietly come to phrases on a brand new carriage and retransmission consent contract. 1 Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards co-host the local telecast of the Rose Parade on CW affiliate KTLA/Los Angeles for the ultimate time. That is ahead of time for the former Journal Communications stations merged into Scripps in April 2015 (whose earlier agreement would have ended on July 31), and averts any menace of Scripps’ NBC stations being faraway from Time Warner systems in the course of the 2016 Summer Olympics. 285. Also Mr. Brent’s paper, ‘Journal of Horticulture,’ 1861, p.