Entertainment

The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), established in 1964, is Turkey's national public broadcaster, which held a monopoly on radio and television until the early 1990s. Today, TRT broadcasts globally, funded primarily by a license tax on receivers and government grants, though its editori...

A performance is broadly defined as either the act of carrying out a task or the staging of an entertainment event like a play or concert. In a professional context, job performance includes both measurable task-specific abilities and contextual behaviors, which are personality-driven contributions supporting organizat...

Popular music refers to music with widespread appeal, typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry, making it accessible even to those with little musical training, in contrast to art music or traditional forms. The term itself originated in the 1880s during the Tin Pan Alley period in the United States, acting a...

A television pilot is a standalone episode created to test a show's concept and sell it to a network, serving as a critical early step in series development. Each year, major American broadcast networks receive hundreds of show pitches, eventually ordering about 20 pilot episodes by January for production. The casting process is incred...

Over-the-Top (OTT) media services deliver video and audio content directly to viewers via the public internet, completely bypassing traditional cable, satellite, or broadcast providers. These "streaming platforms" are accessed on a wide array of devices, including smart TVs, streaming sticks (like Apple TV and Roku), video game console...

The Biograph Theater, designed by Samuel N. Crowen in 1914, is a historic landmark in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, famously known for a dramatic incident from its past. It gained national notoriety on July 22, 1934, when notorious bank robber John Dillinger was ambushed and killed by FBI agents, led by Melvin Purvis, just outsi...

Media Home Entertainment, founded in 1978 by filmmaker Charles Band, began with legal challenges over music rights but quickly grew to become one of the largest independent video distributors in the U.S. Headquartered in Culver City, California, the company was known for distributing iconic horror films such as Halloween, the ...

The Forbes Korea Power Celebrity 40 is an annual ranking published by Forbes Korea magazine, first introduced in 2009. This prestigious list identifies the forty most influential figures across the South Korean sports and entertainment industries. Celebrities are carefully selected based on a comprehen...

Black sitcoms, primarily featuring African American casts, have been a part of television since its early days but rose to significant prominence in the 1990s on upstart networks. Early groundbreaking shows like 1948's The Laytons and 1951's Amos 'n' Andy navigated a landscape often m...

Yandex Music is a prominent Russian music streaming service, developed by Yandex and launched on September 22, 2010. It quickly expanded its catalog from an initial 800,000 to over 40 million tracks by October 2017, reaching approximately 20 million monthly users primarily across Russi...

Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is a prominent Indian Hindi-language pay television channel, launched on October 8, 1995, and owned by Sony Pictures Networks. Over the years, SET has been known for airing a diverse range of dramatic and reality shows, including early broadcasts of Disney Channel content until 2003,...

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), recognizes exceptional performances by actresses in guest roles on primetime drama series. It was first awarded on May 19, 1975, at the 27th Primetime Emmy Awards, with <...