Pablo Iacoviello, Prime Video’s director of monetization for local originals, announced the name change during a Spanish-language audiovisual event on Tuesday, Variety reports.
Since completing its purchase of MGM last year, Amazon has also established Amazon MGM Studios Distribution to handle the placement of its content on other streaming services or networks.
The streamer says each Big Ten school will make “at least one appearance” during its streams. It will also offer several early-round games from the Big Ten’s Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Peacock’s coverage of Big Ten basketball kicks off on November 6th at 7PM ET with a game between the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Princeton Tigers. Last month, Peacock began airing Big Ten football as part of a seven-year deal with the conference.
Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) wrote a letter to TikTok about the company’s recent decisions to have executives from ByteDance, its China-based parent company, work for TikTok instead:
The personnel changes give the impression that TikTok is attempting to preserve ByteDance’s influence over TikTok while avoiding suspicion, which is addressed to TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew. We are concerned these personnel changes undermine the security of U.S. data and the representations TikTok has made about its independence from ByteDance.
[The Wall Street Journal]
Visual effects workers at Disney voted 13-0 to form a union with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) on Tuesday.
The 18-member division is looking for fair compensation, better health care, and retirement benefits, Variety reports. Just last month, Marvel’s VFX workers voted to unionize with the IATSE as well.
