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Fox Networks Group Slates First Simulcast With ‘Cosmos’ Premiere
Fox Networks Group will see its first cross-network simulcast with the premiere of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.” On March 9, the nonfiction, science-based series will roll out on the FNG nets...
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David Hill Takes Helm of Nat Geo Channels, Courteney Monroe Upped to CEO
News Corp. vet David Hill is in and David Lyle is out at National Geographic Channels U.S. Hill will serve as chairman of the channels group. Nat Geo TV marketing exec Courteney Monroe (pictured) has...
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Rentrak Widens Ties With Fox Networks Group
Rentrak, a provider of viewership data that has recently been moving aggressively to strike pacts with a number of major media companies, said it had expanded its relationship with 21st Century Fox’s...
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Toby Byrne Named Ad-Sales Chief For Entire Fox Networks Group
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox company is assigning a single executive to oversee all of the ad sales related to its broad array of television properties, the latest signal that marketers want fewer...
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Distribution Exec BJ Elias Promoted at Fox Networks
BJ Elias has been upped to senior VP of distribution at Fox Networks. Elias has been a key player in Fox’s launch of authenticated streaming services with MVPD and digital partners. He’s also worked on...
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Advertising Futurist Joe Marchese Gets Broader Role at Fox Networks Group
Joe Marchese, an executive experienced in many of the new forms of advertising developing around TV programs, is getting a wider role at Fox Networks Group, which acquired Marchese’s company, true[x],...
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Fox Networks Group’s Rita Tuzon Picked as Variety’s In-House Counsel of the Year
Ad-skipping technology, live TV streaming and over-the-top alternatives are just a few of the rapid changes in the TV landscape that have been at the center of Rita Tuzon’s job. As executive VP and...
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Scott Rudin Inks Mega Multi-Year First Look Deal with Fox Networks Group
Scott Rudin is heading to TV in a big way. The prolific producer has inked a three-year first-look deal with Fox Networks Group, Variety has learned. The new pact with Scott Rudin Productions has Rudin...
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Fox Veteran Scott Grogin to Exit As Networks Group PR Chief (EXCLUSIVE)
Scott Grogin, longtime corporate PR chief for Fox Networks Group, will exit the company at the end of this year. Grogin has been with Fox since 2000, starting out at the Fox broadcast network. He was...
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Fox Networks Group Vet Ruth Anne Herman Promoted to Exec VP
Fox Networks Group veteran Ruth Anne Herman has been promoted to exec VP of human resources. With the promotion, Herman adds oversight of HR functions for Fox Networks Group’s newly formed...
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Fox Networks Group Nabs ‘The Last Panthers’ in Bulgaria, Balkans
LONDON — “The Last Panthers,” a six-part crime series, has been sold to Fox Networks Group for Bulgaria and the Balkans. The drama will premiere on Fox Crime channels in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia,...
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FilMart: Two Fox Units Combine Forces for Expanded Chinese Production
Fox Int'l Productions and Fox Networks Group work together to produce Chinese language movies, remakes and series, and tap into China's taste for local content.
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Dish’s Sling TV Launches Multi-Stream Plan Stocked With Fox Nets, but Without...
Sling TV, Dish Network’s Internet pay-TV service, launched a service to let users watch up to three streams at the same time — with a slew of sports, entertainment and local programming from Fox...
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Fox Sees Fewer Ads On TV As Viewers Gain More Control
21st Century Fox has never been shy about staking its claim to a piece of the billions of dollars in advertising that make their way to TV networks every year. Yet on billboards that have gone up...
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Fox Networks Boards Chinese Series ‘Ruyi’s Love in the Palace’
Fox Networks Group Asia has acquired global rights outside mainland China to Chinese series “Ruyi’s Love In The Palace.” The show, produced by New Classic Media, is the sequel to the award winning and...
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Ravi Ahuja Replaces Del Mayberry as Fox Networks Group CFO
Ravi Ahuja has been named the new chief financial officer of Fox Networks Group, the company announced Monday. He replaces Del Mayberry, who will retire after a more than three-decade career with Fox....
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Mondelez Teams Up With Fox To Devise Ads for the Streaming-Video Generation
On the web, so conventional wisdom has it, surfers have long been accustomed to watching few ads – or even none at all. So Mondelēz International, the giant food manufacturer, wants to come up with a...
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Fox Networks Ups Audrey Steele, Suzanne Sullivan
Audrey Steele has been promoted to executive vice president of sales research insights and strategy and Suzanne Sullivan has been promoted to executive vice president of entertainment sales at Fox...
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Fox Networks Ad Sales Chief Toby Byrne to Step Down
Toby Byrne, who has supervised advertising sales for TV’s Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports and, more recently, the 21st Century Fox general entertainment cable networks, stepped down unexpectedly...
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Fox Networks Group Inks AT&T Deal, Including Rights for DirecTV Now Streaming...
Fox Networks Group reached an agreement to extend its carriage deal across AT&T and DirecTV’s services, including the telco’s new DirecTV Now over-the-top streaming service set to launch Nov. 28....
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