09/20/22: Alison Sweeney spends another holiday with Hallmark Media

Live TV from a traditional pay TV service is the most common first stop for viewing. Netflix is second, at 23%. DirecTV had to apologize for the second weekend in a row for outages that disrupted its NFL Sunday Ticket stream. NBCUniversal launched the Creative Impact Lab to help nonprofits showcase their impact through storytelling. Alison Sweeney spends another holiday with Hallmark Media. She works for them. The Sunday ticket package is in its final season of exclusivity.

YouTube, Twitter and TikTok come together for EBS 2022. They will kick-off the day with Top of the Morning: The Platform Perspective with YouTube,

Sarah Paulson will star in and executive produce a scripted adaptation of HBO Max docu-series “The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin” Sarah Dean will serve as showrunner and EP. Hearst Magazines is partnering with ITV America’s Good Caper Content to produce new true crime docuseries ‘Hell in the Heartland: The Witches of Nebraska‘. HGTV has picked up second seasons of ’Building Roots' and 'Why the Heck Did I Buy This House?'

Marcus Lemonis is the host of HGTV's "The Renovator" starting on October 11 at 8 p.m. Bounce's new series "Finding Happy" premieres on September 24 at 9 p.,m., and Alison Sweeney spends another holiday with Hallmark Media.

True Royalty TV is offering two new specials commemorating the late Queen Elizabeth II.

NBCUniversal and Samsung Galaxy are teaming for a video game called "Tonight at the Rock – Powered by Samsung Samsung". Tomorrow, September 21, "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" will air an in-show integration mirroring one of the games in real life. Comcast Cable announced plans to double its network energy efficiency by 2030.

The PGA TOUR and Autograph will create a digital collectibles platform. The NBA is bringing back NBA Launchpad. CBS Sports announced its college football Saturday showcase for October 1 at 3:30 p.m. All Sports Television Network is launching Countdown to Qatar. MLB Tonight will offer a behind-the-scenes look into how the show is produced. It will feature the real-time conversations amongst the production team, technical crew, and on-air personalities. They will work together to execute the live show in Studio 3 and Studio 42.

BIG TV confirms more thought-leaders for this year's conference. Roku, Warner Bros Discovery, Genius Brands International, Nickelodeon, A+E Networks, Disney, and NBCUniversal are attending. Registration is still open. Big TV Conference is on September 29th-30th.

"Halloween Baking Championship" was Food Network's highest-rated Monday this year. FOX News Digital reached over 2.9 billion multiplatform minutes, 1.5 billion views and 77 million multiplplatform unique visitors in August. The FOX Mobile App reached nearly 6.3 million unique users in that month. The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu), The Grand Tour (Amazon Prime), and "The Boys" ( Amazon) are the top streaming shows for the week of September 12.

Common Sense Networks promoted Sharon Kroll Cohen to Chief Marketing Officer. Viant Technology has named Ritesh Patel as its Chief Legal Officer and Arish Gajjar as the new SVP, Deputy General Counsel. ESPN has hired Susie Piotrkowski as VP, espnW. GLAAD has appointed Julian J. Walker as Associate Director, Communities of Color & Media. Today is the anniversary of the premiere of "The Cosby Show". For the last trivia question, Catherine O’Hara will receive her first Primetime Emmy for "SCTV" (1976-1984).