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  • Monday, Apr. 8, 2024
18.7 million: Early figures from NCAA women's title game make it most-watched hoops game in 5 years
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (r) sits on the bench at the end of the Final Four college basketball championship game against South Carolina in the women's NCAA Tournament, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Cleveland. South Carolina won 87-75. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) -- 

South Carolina's victory over Caitlin Clark and Iowa in Sunday's women's NCAA championship game had a preliminary audience average of 18.7 million on ABC and ESPN. The only sporting events in the United States to draw a bigger TV audience since 2019 have been football, the World Cup and the Olympics.

The audience numbers are expected to increase when Nielsen releases its final numbers on Tuesday. Nielsen says the audience peaked at 24 million.

It's the most-watched basketball game since 2019, when the men's NCAA title game between Virginia and Texas Tech averaged 19.6 million on CBS.

Clark and Iowa have the three top audiences for women's basketball. The Hawkeyes' victory over UConn Friday night averaged 14.2 million, and their April 1 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight, a rematch of last year's title game, drew 12.3 million.

The audience for the national title game was up 89% over last year, when Clark and Iowa fell to LSU More

  • Monday, Apr. 8, 2024
Goldcrest Post to open full-service facility at Lionsgate Studios Yonkers
Lionsgate Studios Yonkers
NEW YORK -- 

Goldcrest Post is teaming with Great Point Studios to bring world class postproduction services to Lionsgate Studios Yonkers, which is owned and operated by Great Point Studios. Goldcrest Post will establish staff and operate facilities at the studio campus, providing a full slate of postproduction services including dailies, sound and picture editorial, color grading, sound mixing, ADR, visual effects and offline edit suites. The site, slated to be fully operational by September, will service productions based at Lionsgate Studios Yonkers and elsewhere.

The new postproduction facilities will complement expansive production resources at Lionsgate Studios, which include 1 million square feet of environmentally sustainable stages, office space, support areas, mill space, and city street backlots. Lionsgate Studios Yonkers has transformed Yonkers into a new epicenter for film and television production, dubbed “Hollywood on the Hudson.”

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  • Monday, Apr. 8, 2024
Actor Jonathan Majors avoids jail time, sentenced to counseling for assaulting ex-girlfriend
Actor Jonathan Majors leaves Criminal Court with his girlfriend Megan Good after his sentencing in Manhattan on Monday April 8, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)
By Philip Marcelo
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Actor Jonathan Majors has been ordered to complete a yearlong counseling program but avoided jail time Monday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend in a high-profile case that derailed the once-promising star's career.

The 34-year-old star of "Creed III" and other films had faced up to a year behind bars after he was convicted of misdemeanor assault by a Manhattan jury in December.

In court Monday, Judge Michael Gaffey sentenced Majors to conditional discharge after noting that both sides in the case agreed the charges did not warrant jail time.

He said Majors must complete a 52-week, in-person batterer's intervention program in Los Angeles, where the actor lives. He also has to continue with the mental health therapy his lawyers say he's been participating in. Majors faces a year in jail if found in violation of the terms, which also included a no contact order with his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.

Majors, dressed in all More

  • Monday, Apr. 8, 2024
Some states are seeking to restrict TikTok. That doesn't mean their governors aren't using it
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro arrives in Blue Bell, Pa., Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Shapiro, a Democrat, is a prolific Tik Tok poster, with his efforts beginning on the campaign trail through a personal account. The first-termer is a rising star in the Democratic Party and among a handful of governors who are building their national profiles and possibly positioning themselves for a 2028 run for the White House. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
By Brooke Schultz
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- 

POV: You're on TikTok, and so is your governor — even as your Legislature considers banning the app from state-owned devices and networks.

Efforts to ban TikTok over security concerns about China's influence through the platform have picked up steam in the past year in state legislatures, with an expansive ban even proposed by Congress. In Pennsylvania, forward movement on a bill that first unanimously passed the state Senate last year could send legislation to the Democratic governor's desk imminently.

But even as the app faces scrutiny and bans, governors and state agencies — and even President Joe Biden — are still using the app to promote their initiatives and expand their voting pool. Their target is the youth vote, or the people who largely make up the app's U.S. user base of 170 million.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, is a prolific poster, with his efforts beginning on the campaign trail through a personal More

  • Saturday, Apr. 6, 2024
Iowa-UConn women's Final Four match was most-watched hoops game in ESPN history; 14.2M avg. viewers
Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (22) reacts with head coach Lisa Bluder during the second half of a Final Four college basketball game against UConn in the women's NCAA Tournament, Friday, April 5, 2024, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) -- 

Iowa's 71-69 victory over UConn at the women's Final Four on Friday night averaged 14.2 million viewers on ESPN, making it the most-viewed women's basketball game on record and the largest audience for an ESPN basketball broadcast.

The previous women's hoops mark was 12.3 million for last Monday's Iowa-LSU game in the Elite Eight. Game 7 of the 2018 Eastern Conference finals between Cleveland and Boston was ESPN's most-watched basketball game at 13.51 million.

That also makes it one of the most-viewed games in any sport other than college football and the NFL over the past couple years. Last year's NCAA men's title game between San Diego State and UConn averaged 14.79 million.

The Hawkeyes game, which saw the audience peak at 17 million, will likely go down as one of the top 50 primetime telecasts of 2024. It would have finished 32nd on last year's list.

It is also ESPN's second-highest audience for a non-football broadcast. More

  • Thursday, Apr. 4, 2024
Conan O'Brien will be a guest on "The Tonight Show," 14 years after his acrimonious exit
Conan O'Brien performs at the 8th annual Love Rocks NYC concert benefiting God's Love We Deliver at the Beacon Theatre, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
By Alicia Rancilio

Does time — and a new host — heal all wounds? Fourteen years after Conan O'Brien was messily ousted from NBC's "The Tonight Show" to make way for the return of Jay Leno — the comedian is finally back.

O'Brien will appear on the April 9 show to promote his new travel series "Conan O'Brien Must Go" for Max in conversation with Jimmy Fallon, who took over from Leno in 2014.

After more than 15 years of hosting "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" on NBC, O'Brien was promoted to lead the network's flagship late-night show in 2009, after it was announced Leno would be given a new prime-time show, also on NBC.

After seven months of slipping "Tonight Show" ratings and and pressure from affiliates who said "The Jay Leno Show" wasn't a strong enough lead-in to their nightly newscasts, NBC made a plan to shorten Leno's show to a half-hour and give it a 11:35 p.m. timeslot, which would have bumped "The Tonight Show" to 12:05 a.m.

"It was my More

  • Thursday, Apr. 4, 2024
Free blue checks are back for some accounts on Elon Musk's X. Not everyone is happy about it
The X logo is shown on a computer screen in Belgrade, Serbia, July 24, 2023. X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has started restoring complimentary blue checks to some "influential" users. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
By Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Elon Musk's X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has begun restoring complimentary blue checks for some of its users, the latest unexpected shift to cause a lot of confusion on the platform.

For years, Twitter's blue checks mirrored verification badges that are common on social media, largely reserved for celebrities, politicians and other influential accounts. That changed months after Musk bought the platform for $44 billion in October 2022.

Last year, X began issuing verification checks only to those who paid the starting price of $8 per month for it, and stripping verification badges from many celebrities and other prominent accounts. That also led to confusion, complaints, and a large number of fake accounts pretending to be someone else, blue check included.

But late Wednesday night and early Thursday, numerous users reported seeing the blue checks return to their accounts, or appear for the first time, despite the fact More

  • Thursday, Apr. 4, 2024
While skies dim, marketing initiatives shine with total solar eclipse
In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, Poureal Long, a fourth grader at Clardy Elementary School in Kansas City, Mo., practices the proper use of eclipse glasses in anticipation of Monday's solar eclipse. More and more businesses are taking advantage of the total solar eclipse set to dim skies across North America on Monday, April 8, 2024. In the snacks department alone, Krispy Kreme is teaming up with Oreo to sell a limited doughnut-cookie creation. Sonic Drive-In is selling a “Blackout Slush Float.” (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

More and more businesses are taking advantage of the total solar eclipse set to dim skies across North America on Monday.

In the snacks department alone, Krispy Kreme is teaming up with Oreo to sell a limited doughnut-cookie creation. Sonic Drive-In is selling a "Blackout Slush Float." And Frito-Lay's SunChips has unveiled a new flavor that will only be available during the celestial event's nearly 4 and a half minutes of totality.

MoonPie also kicked off a "Sun vs. Moon" smackdown-themed campaign as the chocolate snack maker promotes its "eclipse survival kit," made up of four mini MoonPies and two pairs of eclipse glasses.

Meanwhile, airlines like Southwest and Delta have advertised eclipse-viewing flight paths. And beyond promotions from big-name brands, small businesses along the 115 mile (185 kilometer)-wide prime path are leading the charge to meet the incoming tourist demand.

Some towns and local vendors have been More

  • Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2024
Disney shareholders back CEO Iger, rebuff activist shareholders who wanted to shake up the company
Disney chief executive Bob Iger arrives at the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Feb. 12, 2024, in Beverly Hills, Calif. During the company's annual shareholder meeting Wednesday, April 3, 2024, investors will decide whether to back Iger, or grant two board seats to activist investor Nelson Peltz and his Trian Partners. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- 

Disney shareholders have rallied behind longtime CEO Robert Iger, voting Wednesday to rebuff activist investor Nelson Peltz and his ally, former Disney Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo, who had sought seats on the company's board.

The company had recommended a slate of directors that did not include Peltz or Rasulo.

The dissident shareholders had said in a preliminary proxy filing that they wanted to complete a "successful CEO transition" at Disney and align management pay with performance. Despite their loss, they declared a victory of sorts following the vote, noting that since Peltz's company, Trian Partners, started pushing Disney in late 2023, the entertainment giant has engaged in a flurry of activity, adding new directors and announcing new operating initiatives and capital improvement plans for its theme parks.

"Over the last six months, Disney's stock is up approximately 50% and is the Dow Jones Industrial Average's best More

  • Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2024
Elon Musk's X appoints a new global safety leader, and a head of advertiser solutions
Computer monitors and a laptop display the X, formerly known as Twitter, sign-in page, July 24, 2023, in Belgrade, Serbia. Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, announced Tuesday, April 2, 2024, that it has named company veteran Kylie McRoberts as new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Elon Musk's X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has named a new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company.

X said that company veteran Kylie McRoberts will oversee the global safety team. The platform also announced that Yale Cohen, who previously worked for media firm Publicis Media, would become head of brand safety and advertiser solutions.

The last executive heading what was formerly called the trust and safety team, Ella Irwin, left the company in June 2023. While Irwin did not point to specific reasoning at the time, her resignation arrived just days after Musk publicly complained about the platform's handling of posts about transgender topics.

Since Musk's $44 billion purchase of the platform in October 2022, X has seen several leadership shakeups.

The appointments, first announced Tuesday, arrive amid ongoing concerns about content moderation More

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