EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Fire star Jeff Hephner has boarded Abi Morgan’s Benedict Cumberbatch-starring Netflix UK series Eric.
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With advertising trends front and center for Wall Street and industry players in the current crop of media earnings, Comcast’s NBC Universal was one of the first to weigh in.
NBCU CEO Jeff Shell said the market steadily worsened over the course of last year but “it kind of feels like it bottomed out around late November, early December, and really since then it hasn’t gotten worse, and maybe even a little better.”
He said he’d describe it as a “shallow” market with areas “that are better, actually really doing well, like pharma, entertainment, travel is on fire” and other that “feel uncertain” like weak tech, auto and financial services.
Speaking on a post-earnings conference call, he said it feels like the weakness is due more to macroeconomic uncertainty than to businesses not doing well. “None of us know where the economy is headed, so advertisers are holding back, and when they do advertise, they are coming in later than usual.
He predicted the market “is going to stay weak for the first half of this year, then recover. But, who really knows?”
He believes NBCU will hold up aa bit better than peers as Peacock’s growth helps offset weakness in linear TV, and the company has made major investments in data and measurement.
In earnings reported this morning, Comcast said NBCU’s media advertising revenue rose 4% due to the FIFA World Cup airing on Telemundo and an increase in Peacock advertising.
EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Fire star Jeff Hephner has boarded Abi Morgan’s Benedict Cumberbatch-starring Netflix UK series Eric.
A former employee of South Korea’s foreign ministry has been charged with embezzlement after attempting to sell a hat that belonged to BTS’s Jungkook.The unnamed person put the hat up for sale online in October last year for ten million won (approximately £6500). In the listing, the seller said that the item had been left at the ministry building in Seoul when Jungkook visited to apply for a passport.They then claimed that they were now the hat’s rightful owner as it had not been claimed six months after being reported as lost property.The listing attracted a lot of negative attention from BTS fans, who seemingly did not agree with the seller’s view on the hat’s change of ownership.
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Following the death of Jeff Beck earlier this month, Paul McCartney has shared a collaboration he had apparently forgotten about which they worked on together in the mid-1990s.Titled ‘Why Are They Cutting Down The Rainforest?’, the song features a monologue from Beck asking that question in more detail and laying out concerns about the impacts of deforestation. All over an upbeat musical back from him and McCartney.“With the sad passing of Jeff Beck – a good friend of mine, and a great, great guitar player – it reminded me of the time we worked together many years ago on a campaign for vegetarianism”, says McCartney.
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Streaming service Peacock closed 2022 with more than 20 million paid subscribers, helping Comcast slip past Wall Street estimates during a challenging fourth quarter in the media sector.
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Jeff Bridges is opening up about his recent health battles.
Progress towards a roll-out of safer drug consumption rooms across Scotland has been “far too slow”, Scottish Labour has said.