-Newsweek, buried in debt, can't afford its longtime political series, "the project," in which a gaggle of reporters follow presidential candidates, detailing every aspect of the campaign before Election Day. Newsweek editrix Tina Brown has cancelled this venture after almost thirty years, looking for a way to both cut the budget and demonstrate a fresh identity, reports NYT's MediaDecoder.
-YouTube has launched its first original programming with Clevver Media's ClevverTeVe, a Spanish-language news and entertainment program. This marks the first of almost 100 premium channels that YouTube has planned, including shows from Madonna, Jay-Z, Tony Hawk, and Ashton Kutcher, with an investment of nearly $100 million.
-Warner Brothers and ABC just signed a deal that will allow viewers to access episodes of scripted, primetime shows 24-hours after their launch. Viewers can view these shows through network-branded websites, like Hulu and VOD, reports Variety. The deal will also extend to allow Warner Brothers to take shows into off-network syndication in order to sell them to VOD programs like Netflix one year earlier than the usual four years after the season's completion.
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Tina Go Away | November 15, 2011 7:55 AM
Karma is a b**** ! Tina Brown is a b**** of the highest order. Seriously, she gives females a bad name.