World Cup, MLB All-Star Game, Hotstar, “American Horror Story” Season 8
This week’s recap of news about 21st Century Fox and its businesses includes numbers from the World Cup, Fox News’ continued growth, FOX’s broadcast of the MLB All-Star Game, Hotstar’s livestreaming prowess and more.
- TV ratings: World Cup Final drops 32 percent from 2014, posts FOX best (The Hollywood Reporter)
- World Cup tweets were viewed 115 billion times (Engadget)
- Comcast ends pursuit of Fox, bidding war with Disney (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Fox News was the most-watched basic cable network last week; posted year-over-year growth (TVNewser)
- Primetime ratings: FOX wins with All-Star slugfest (Broadcasting & Cable)
- Live from MLB All-Star: FOX Sports takes flight with SkyCam, most high-speed cameras ever (Sports Video Group)
- Primetime ratings: CBS, FOX share Wednesday crown (Broadcasting & Cable)
- Fox Stations prep to test ‘The Hustle’ (Broadcasting & Cable)
- How India’s Hotstar does what Google can’t – live stream major sporting events without hiccups (NDTV)
- ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ cable syndication rights acquired by Freeform & Up TV (Deadline)
- TVN names Fox Stations TV Group of the Year (TVNewsCheck)
- AfterShock Comics teams with Fox 21 on Adam Glass’ ‘The Normals’ for TV (Deadline)
- ‘War of the Worlds’ series coming from Fox Europe and Africa, Canal Plus (Variety)
- ‘American Horror Story’ Season 8 title revealed (Deadline)
- 21st Century Fox commits to Amazon’s cloud for video platforms and workloads (FierceVideo)
Enjoy the weekend!
