Kristin Brzoznowski

PASADENA: The CW has given early renewals to seven of its prime-time series, among them Arrow and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, for the 2017-18 season, and is prepping the DC Comics drama Constantine as an animated series.

SANTA MONICA: Hulu has struck a deal for the subscription streaming video-on-demand rights to ABC’s hit comedy black-ish, as well as the complete library of the classic series The Golden Girls.

NEW YORK: Viacom has promoted 18-year company veteran Sarah Levy to chief operating officer of its global entertainment group, a newly created post.

LOS ANGELES: The animated comedy Archer will move from FX to FXX with season eight this spring.

SANTA MONICA: Hulu has landed an agreement with CBS Corporation to carry the CBS broadcast network, as well as the sports and entertainment channels CBS Sports Network and POP, on its upcoming live-streaming service.

LAS VEGAS: Dish has taken the wraps off its AirTV Player, a new 4K Android TV-based streaming device.

NEW YORK: According to Nielsen, the TV viewing audience of The Walking Dead on AMC increased by about 10.4 million viewers from the live audience with time-shifted viewing (within seven days).

NEW YORK: Doug Herzog, the president of Viacom's Music and Entertainment Group, is stepping down effective January 12.

U.S. television advertising revenue took a hit last month, impacted by weak ratings for NFL football, coupled with having four fewer games in November, according to Standard Media Index (SMI).

MIAMI: The dual-language soccer network GolTV has acquired the exclusive U.S. broadcast rights for the Supercoppa 2016.