NBC Picks Neil Patrick Harris to Host New Variety Show
By BILL CARTER
The network is planning 10 episodes of a music/comedy/sketch show, based on the long-running British series “Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.”
The royalty of politics and media made their way to the Washington National Cathedral to celebrate the life of Benjamin C. Bradlee, the former Washington Post editor.
Most journalists are bystanders who chronicle the exploits of people who do things. But the man who helped run The Washington Post for 26 years actually did things.
The network is planning 10 episodes of a music/comedy/sketch show, based on the long-running British series “Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.”
Nine films will be released through mid-2019, and include the Black Panther — an African superhero — and Captain Marvel, featuring a superheroine.
It is expected to be the first on-air appearance for Mr. Gregory since he was replaced as host of NBC’s “Meet The Press” in August.
A group of New York politicians is lobbying Comcast to provide the free broadband as a condition for its proposed $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable.
Mr. Ross, a longtime Hollywood executive, will take the reins of a nonfiction network, home to programs like “Naked and Afraid” and “Fast N’ Loud.”
Denise F. Warren, one of The New York Times Company’s top executives, is leaving the company after 26 years.
The Wall Street critic is said to have clashed with his bosses, who hired him to run a magazine on the financial system and the politics supporting it.
The company reported losses at all of its divisions, but said that digital advertising revenue had grown slightly for its publishing division.
The network has ordered additional episodes of “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Scorpion,” “Madam Secretary” and “Stalker.”
Mr. Ghomeshi, the former host of “Q,” contends the sexual acts were consensual and is suing the Canadian Broadcasting Company, claiming breach of confidence.
Game 4 on Saturday had an average of 10.7 million viewers, and Game 5 on Sunday had an average of 12.6 million.
Regal, the largest domestic theater circuit in the United States, said it had retained the investment bank Morgan Stanley to help it explore “strategic alternatives.”
Facebook uses mathematical formulas to predict what its users might want to read on the site, from which, a study says, about 30 percent of adults in America get their news.
The encyclopedia’s main Ebola article has had 17 million page views in the last month, rivaling pages from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A report by the PEN American Center cited police interference with journalists, including holding reporters in areas that denied them access to the protests, and accusations of threats and assaults.
A group of Egyptian newspaper editors pledged to limit their criticism of state institutions, after Egypt’s president warned of a “conspiracy” behind a militant attack last week.
The paper published its first issue on Oct. 29, 1764, a one-page edition of what then was called The Connecticut Courant.
A study was widely read as saying that liberals and conservatives get their news mainly from like-minded sources, but the truth is more complicated.
A lawsuit challenging the sale said that the commission’s initial rules would cause some stations to lose some of their coverage area and viewers.
NBCUniversal will pay $6.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by unpaid interns who worked on “Saturday Night Live” and other shows.
Founded in 2002, Roku has become one of the most popular makers of set-top boxes that let consumers stream Internet video onto their TVs.
Arya Jafari was reported to have been detained over his images of protesters deploring acid attacks on women in Isfahan.
The transaction brings together two television groups that attract affluent audiences.
Ms. Brooks, who left Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper empire after a phone hacking scandal, is said to be talking to News Corporation in New York.
Mr. Pels, whose early investment in cellphone networks paid off for his company and for himself, had become a major philanthropist in his later years.
Stephen Burke, the NBCUniversal C.E.O., said he was surprised by announcements last week that HBO and CBS would start subscription streaming services.
The British comedian is succeeding Craig Ferguson, who ends his 10-year run on Dec. 19. In between, there will be guest hosts.
Executives said the bookstore in the Bay Plaza in Co-op City will remain open for at least two more years.
WikiLeaks now has a commercial arm with licensing deals around the world.
The medical journalist has finished her 21-day Ebola quarantine, but has been told by the network’s news president to return to work next month.
The music industry eagerly awaits the first-week sales of Taylor Swift’s new album, “1989,” as CD sales continue to slump, and Ms. Swift moves farther away from country music.
The budding social network Ello is reincorporating as a public benefit corporation whose charter forbids it from using ads or selling user data to make money.
Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski, whose analysis drew praise during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, have earned an expected promotion to the lead team for the sport on the NBC Sports Group.
Mr. Weisenthal, who has built a devoted following at Business Insider, where he writes up to 15 articles a day, will lead a markets and finance site at Bloomberg.
“After,” Anna Todd’s wildly popular web novel based on Harry Styles of the boy band One Direction, is being published as a book.
The Voyage’s main trick is a high-resolution display that is on par with the high-resolution displays now found on most of our other mobile devices.
Amazon has reached a deal with Simon & Schuster, one of the Big Five publishers, while the retailer’s battle with another publisher, Hachette, grinds on.
The streaming service, which sells online access to 20 million songs, will let subscribers add up to four accounts at half the usual price.
The company said its net income in the third quarter grew 48.6 percent, year over year, aided by political advertising.
The new service, which is expected to start by June, will emphasize a curated selection of films intended for an art house audience.
The company has suggested that publishers could simply send pages to Facebook that would live inside the social network’s mobile app.
In 2012, Theo Padnos was kidnapped in Syria by the Nusra Front. After months of beatings and torture, he was certain he would be executed. Instead, he lived to tell this tale.
The 2014 Global Brand Simplicity Index ranked brands for how simple they were to use and understand, a quality of rising popularity among consumers and marketers.
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence is encouraging parents to ask other parents if there are guns in their homes before letting their children play there.
The outdoor retailer the North Face has a new campaign encouraging city dwellers, among whom its jackets are already popular, to take part in outdoor activities like biking and mountain-climbing.
The growth of marketing efforts for connected-home items is fueled by consumers’ appetite for new technology.
Fifteen nonprofit groups conducted research that led to a new website to help parents better understand these issues and a campaign to promote the site.
The Council of Public Relations Firms plans to adopt an informal name, the P.R. Council, and promote the benefits of public relations to senior executives of client companies.
Searching for data-driven decision-making, Ogilvy & Mather is pooling its data executives in a unit called OgilvyAmp.
The market chain is trying to reignite sales growth and fend off increased competition by promoting the social values it follows in stocking its shelves.
Caliber, a new cologne from Stetson, is marketing itself with a contest on the “new rules of chivalry.”
In the last few years, Christmas campaigns have started earlier as retailers and marketers, worried about an uncertain economy, seek to gather their rosebuds — and holiday shopping dollars — while they may.
The agency, 72andSunny, the Agency of the Year in Advertising Age and Adweek, is coming to New York.
Mr. Chase went on to become a prolific producer of theater, film and television drama, with credits including a vast roster of popular series like “The Fugitive” and “Peyton Place.”
Eight independent agencies and companies that create ads aimed at minority, multicultural, urban and youth markets are coming together.
Cascadian Farm, an organic brand owned by General Mills, is encouraging consumers to plant wildflowers to provide a healthful environment for bees.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness has enlisted five groups to create original music for the album “#IWillListen.”
Shaquille O’Neal, the former N.B.A. All-Star, has earned millions by promoting a wide variety of products, such as jewelry and soda.
Four of the top 10 brands on the 2014 Interbrand Best Global Brands list are technology brands.
The campaign features a spot illustrating conveniences aimed at millennial and Generation X business and leisure travelers.
A campaign by an appliance company acknowledges the monotony of domestic duties.
The 11th annual conference, held in New York, was chock-full of 300 official events, additional unofficial events and many late-night receptions and parties.
Calls for more diverse advertising agencies have become common at the conference, but many at this week’s edition reiterated that not enough had been done to bring women into the industry’s work force.
Organizers are using celebrities, improvisational comedy and other elements intended to engage those attending the annual Advertising Week in New York.
Top officials enjoy what they deny to their citizens: social media.
Twenty-six percent of all smartphone users have expressed an interest in paying for goods and services using their mobile phones. Almost 40 percent of people who shop at J. Crew are ready to pay by phone, as are a substantial number of customers at lower-end retailers like H&M (33.4 percent) and Chuck E. Cheese’s (32.3 percent).
The cat food brand has reintroduced Morris the cat through a campaign that takes advantage of social media while emphasizing the roots of the character.
A reader is underwhelmed by a Whole Foods campaign, and more on “twin ads.”
George Washington University hired Tribal Worldwide as its first digital media agency of record, and Anheuser-Busch chose LatinWorks for a Mexican beer campaign.