Miss Universe Venezuela, Gabriela Isler was crowned Miss Universe 2013 from Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia. The 62nd Annual Miss Universe Competition was broadcast on NBC with a Spanish simulcast on Telemundo. Gabriela Isler is the 7th young woman to take home the Miss Universe crown from Venezuela. The 25 year-old college graduate with [...]

On Dec. 3, Sony Masterworks will release the companion soundtrack to NBC’s live broadcast of “The Sound of Music,” based on the classic stage musical. The three-hour live production, starring six-time Grammy Award winner Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp, will air Dec. 5. The cast also includes Audra McDonald (“Private Practice”), who has won [...]

Suave Professionals brand has teamed up with designer, mentor and style icon Nicole Richie and is sponsoring NBC’s “Fashion Star” for the second year in a row. Together, Nicole and Suave Professionals are pulling back the curtain to unlock behind-the-scenes style and beauty secrets from the hit show and sharing them in the new Suave [...]

Beginning Monday and airing throughout the week, NBC’s TODAY will debut a series of television public service ads, (PSAs) featuring TODAY’s TV anchors, on behalf of four social issues—fatherhood involvement, hunger prevention, emergency preparedness and shelter pet adoption. The ads were created pro bono by leading advertising agencies in partnership with the Ad Council, a [...]

The You Can Play project, with the backing of some National Hockey League players and other supporters, has launched an aggressive advocacy program to change the sometimes homophobic culture of locker rooms with a message that athletes should be judged on athletic skill and ability, not sexual orientation or other discriminatory factors. So, NHL players [...]

The cast of “Community” is getting animated in new short form programming that is set to debut Wednesday, March 7 on the free, ad-supported Hulu; the Hulu Plus subscription service and NBC.com, with new shorts appearing on consecutive days. The three promotional shorts, titled “Abed’s Master Key” parts I, II & III, feature the animated [...]

While shopping on Apple iTunes Friday morning, Joe Francis discovered that “Girls Gone Wild” is the title of the first song on Madonna’s new album, “M.D.N.A.” So what? Incidentally, Francis is the creator of Girls Gone Wild Magazine, a popular men’s lifestyle publication. Francis was quoted as saying, “I was blown away when I saw [...]

Madonna, a multi Grammy Award-winning Universal Records recording artist, will perform in the Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show on NBC at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, Feb. 5. The NFL and NBC announced this during Sunday Night Football game between the New Orleans Saints and Detroit Lions. Madonna’s performance will be imagined [...]

Mishka, the talking Husky, is lending her voice to promote Purina Veterinary Diets’ FortiFlora Nutritional Supplement. A new FortiFlora TV ad will debut on Thanksgiving during The National Dog Show Presented by Purina, airing on NBC at noon (all time zones). The effusive Mishka, whose YouTube videos have garnered more than 200 million views, stars [...]

In front of a worldwide audience of approximately one billion viewers, Miss Angola, Leila Lopes, was announced Miss Universe 2011 live from Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The 60th Annual “Miss Universe Pageant” was broadcast live on both NBC and Telemundo.  Miss Angola, Leila Lopes, has loved pageants since she was a little girl [...]

Procter & Gamble and Walmart will premiere their latest movie in the Family Movie Night initiative, “Game Time: Tackling the Past,” just in time for fall football season. This exciting sports drama showcases how a person’s true value is measured. The movie stars Beau Bridges, Ryan McPartlin, Catherine Hicks and Josh Braaten, and airs on [...]

Ann Curry, co-anchor of NBC News’ TODAY, America’s morning news program; Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, America’s leading evening newscast; and Big Bird, star in 24-hour preschool television channel Sprout’s first PSA created for “Kindness Counts,” the network’s new multiplatform, prosocial initiative designed to support the development of empathy in [...]