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Hamilton Spectator
11 hours ago
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
‘Emotions are still sky high': Fort St. John Calder Cup champion reflects on postseason run
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — A Fort St. John-based hockey player chatted about his Calder Cup victory on the latest episode of Moose FM's This Week in the Peace. Tristen Nielsen plays forward for the Abbotsford Canucks, who recently took the American Hockey League (AHL) championship on Monday, June 23rd in a hard-fought seven-game series against the Charlotte Checkers. As the farm team for the National Hockey League's (NHL) Vancouver Canucks, the championship is the first for the franchise as a whole. For his part, Nielsen had five goals and four assists for nine points in 24 playoff contests. 'The emotions are still sky high,' said Nielsen. 'Every day has been exciting, every day has been some new way to celebrate. 'I've just been fortunate enough to be able to do it here in B.C.' The 25-year-old began his hockey career with Fort St. John Flyers youth teams, and also spent time with the Western Hockey League's (WHL) Calgary Hitmen and Vancouver Giants prior to playing with Abbotsford. Although the Canucks started off slowly with wins and losses throughout the first two months of the year, they finished the 2024-25 season with a franchise record for wins: 44 wins, 24 losses with three overtime losses and two shootout defeats for 92 points. It was something Nielsen attributed to the team 'finding its way,' with the late-season push a matter of the players 'finding their groove.' 'It's all about hitting your peak at the right time,' said Nielsen. 'As a whole, I think our group did a very good job.' Nielsen added he was 'very proud' of himself for being able to adapt to being moved to different roles throughout the lineup. 'Everybody wants to be the goal scorer or a first liner,' said Nielsen. 'But sometimes you have to be the grinder, the guy getting the job done on the fourth line.' He says he's unsure about what he might want to do with the Calder Cup when he has his day with it, saying he may take a trip to a hospital to visit children or spend time with his family. The full episode of This Week in the Peace is available on Moose Media's YouTube page and on all major podcast platforms. Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
Bloomberg
12 hours ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Ex-Nielsen Unit Files for US IPO That Could Target Up to $1.25 Billion
NIQ Global Intelligence Plc filed for an initial public offering, earmarking the proceeds to pare its debt load. The private equity-backed former consumer intelligence unit of Nielsen Holdings had a net loss of $73.7 million on revenue of $966 million in the three months ended March 31, compared with a net loss of $174 million on revenue of $962 million in the same period a year earlier, according to its filing Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Sirens' Debuts At No. 1 On Nielsen Top 10 As ‘The Last Of Us' Season 2 Concludes & ‘All American' Season 7 Generates Interest On Netflix
Netflix landed atop the Nielsen streaming charts in the final full week of May with the debut of its latest dark comedy Sirens. The series premiered on May 22, racking up 1.4B minutes streamed in just the first few days of release. Per Nielsen, it was the only title to surpass a billion minutes viewed from May 19 to 25. Interesting, Nielsen also says Sirens attracted a largely Millennial and Gen X audience, with adults 35-64 accounting for 57% of its watch time. More from Deadline 'Adolescence' Composers Aaron May & David Ridley On Using The Victim's "Innocent, Vulnerable Voice" As The Base Of The Score 5 Songs With 'Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story' Music Supervisors Amanda Krieg Thomas & Anna Romanoff In Petra Costa's 'Apocalypse In The Tropics,' Rise Of Christian Nationalism Presents Urgent Warning For Brazil, And America - Sheffield DocFest Second place went to NCIS, which nabbed the No. 1 spot among acquired titles for the first time in several years, amassing 824M minutes viewed. While this may be the highest it has climbed in quite some time, make no mistake: NCIS is a stalwart on the Nielsen Top 10, having made 265 total appearances. In fact, it is actually the all-time top acquired program by number of appearances on the list, trailed by Grey's Anatomy. Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives picked up steam as Season 2 ventured into its second week post-premiere. The series came in at No. 4 with 810M minutes viewed, with the new season accounting for about 86% of viewing. This interval also just barely captured the Season 2 finale of HBO's The Last of Us. The series picked up another 707M minutes viewed this week, which includes the same-day viewing on Max for the May 25 finale. However, it's likely the series will make at least one more appearance on the Top 10 before it trails off as audiences wait for another season. Nielsen considers The Last of Us an acquired title, since it also airs on HBO and therefore Nielsen's streaming measurement doesn't fully capture the viewing for each episode. On streaming alone, Nielsen says TLOU generated 3.6B viewing minutes over the course of Season 2. Another acquired title that performed quite well during this week was The CW's All American, thanks to Season 7's arrival on Netflix. The series shot to No. 8 among acquired titles that week with 559M minutes viewed. Nielsen says 55% of its total watch time this week came from adults 18-49. Black viewers were also major contributors, accounting for 30% of viewing. See more below. Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dept. Q Makes Nielsen Streaming Top 10 Debut, and With a Decidedly Older Audience
Netflix's Sirens continued to sing a happy tune, once again topping Nielsen's U.S. ranking of streaming originals. Sirens for the week of May 26 racked up 1.5 billion minutes viewed for its five episodes, easily holding onto the No. 1 slot. Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale placed second with 900 million minutes viewed/66 episodes, followed by the chart debuts of Netflix's Dept. Q and Prime Video's The Better Sister. More from TVLine Save the Dates: The Chicken Sisters Season 2, Mom on Netflix and More Jason Bateman Is Jude Law's Scruffy, No-Good Brother in Netflix Restaurant Drama Black Rabbit - Get Release Date The Sweet Magnolias Take Manhattan in Season 5 First Look (Exclusive) Dept. Q, Nielsen notes, 'resonated with the over 50 crowd,' which accounted for 76% of the series' 749 million minutes viewed. Better Sister (731 million minutes/eight episodes) attracted a slightly younger audience, with 62% falling into the 35-64 range. Netflix's Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders closed out the Top 5 with 646 million minutes/three episodes. Rounding out Nielsen's Top 10 streaming originals for the week of May 26 were Paramount+'s MobLand, Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Netflix's Big Mouth, Apple TV+'s Your Friends & Neighbors (making its Top 10 debut), and Disney+'s Andor. Want SCOOP on any of the TV shows above? Email InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line!
Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Can Brad Pitt's ‘F1' Movie Finally Deliver Apple a Big-Screen Hit?
When the team behind this week's Brad Pitt movie 'F1' first pitched their idea around Hollywood, nearly every major entertainment company wanted in and a bidding war quickly erupted. Then Apple bigfooted them all. The tech giant agreed to spend nearly $250 million, more than any other studio thought the drama about an aging driver's last shot at glory was worth, said people with knowledge of the matter. Pitt was paid more than the $20 million standard for A-list movie stars and will get a cut of the film's revenue if it's a hit. 'F1' is one of Apple's biggest entertainment bets since it leapt into Hollywood in 2019 and embodies its unusually lavish and meticulous approach to the business, which has brought little commercial success. People who have worked at or with the company say Apple executives crave hits, but only want to produce content they believe reflects the high-end, aspirational qualities of the iPhone and MacBook. There's little chance, in other words, that Apple would make a critically reviled blockbuster like 'A Minecraft Movie.' With sleek production values and strong reviews, 'F1' is exactly the kind of movie Apple wants. It was made by 'Top Gun: Maverick' director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and Apple executives have privately said they hope it will be the land-based equivalent of the airborne blockbuster, which grossed $1.5 billion in 2022. Director Joseph Kosinski, left, and star Brad Pitt on the set of 'F1.' Kosinski previously directed the hit movie 'Top Gun: Maverick.' But prerelease surveys indicate 'F1' is struggling to generate interest among audiences beyond older men. Its success or failure will be a referendum on Apple's ability to meld carefully curated content with broad popular appeal after six years in which it hasn't released a single box-office hit. 'F1' will be available on Apple TV+, the company's streaming service, after its run on the big screen. Apple TV+ has an estimated 27.2 million subscribers in the U.S., according to Nielsen, below competitors that launched around the same time including Disney+ and HBO Max. Apple TV+ is available in more than 100 countries around the world. It has earned a reputation for content that excites critics more than audiences, including the Leonardo DiCaprio-Robert De Niro movie 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' Oscar Best Picture winner 'CODA,' literary adaptation 'Pachinko,' and the spy drama 'Slow Horses.' Its few mainstream successes include sports comedy 'Ted Lasso,' sci-fi workplace drama 'Severance' and straight-to-streaming film 'The Gorge.' 'We're into [entertainment] to tell great stories, and we want it to be a great business as well,' Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook recently told Variety. An Apple TV+ spokeswoman declined to comment. Analysts have questioned why Apple spends billions annually on a business so far afield from its core consumer-electronics operation, even if it's barely a blip for a company worth some $3 trillion. 'The strategic value it brings is sufficiently mysterious for people not to talk about it very much,' said analyst Craig Moffett of MoffettNathanson. Apple TV+ costs $10 a month. It is also part of the Apple One bundle that starts at $20 and includes music, games and iCloud storage. Apple One is critical to the company's growing services business. Adam Scott and Britt Lower in 'Severance,' one of the more successful shows on Apple TV+. Moreover, exclusive films and TV shows attract people to the Apple TV app, where the company sells subscriptions to competing video services and takes a cut of the proceeds. It also 'serves as a hedge against content companies pulling back or away from Apple devices,' said Above Avalon analyst Neil Cybert. In a sign it is seeking more revenue than its own ecosystem can generate, Apple TV+ last year became available through Amazon. According to the research firm Antenna, Apple had 1.5 million sign-ups through Amazon in the first three months. One thing Apple hasn't done is pull back on spending. Most of its TV shows and films feature expensive big-name talent, like Jon Hamm in 'Your Friends and Neighbors' and Cate Blanchett in 'Disclosure.' For the new golf comedy 'Stick' starring Owen Wilson, creator Jason Keller wanted a costly soundtrack including well-known tracks from The Who, Beastie Boys and Simon & Garfunkel. 'I never really got any pushback' from Apple, he said. Apple has frustrated talent it works with in other ways though, including how little data it shares on streaming views. Producers have resorted to paying outside analysts tens of thousands of dollars for insights on how their content performed on Apple TV+. 'I've had one conversation with somebody at Apple. They said, 'We're very happy with the initial numbers, we'll talk to you in a couple of weeks,'' said Keller. Unlike fellow Hollywood émigrés Amazon and Netflix, Apple hasn't supplemented its productions with older TV shows and movies from other studios' catalogs, because it doesn't want any content on its service it hasn't handpicked to match its brand. As a result, Apple TV+ has only a few hundred titles in its library, and customers have a habit of signing up to watch a particular show or movie and then canceling. The percentage of subscribers who cancel in a given month is 6%, according to Antenna, compared with 3% for Disney+ and 2% for Netflix. 'We elected not to go out and procure a catalog. I know that's a faster way into the business, but it didn't feel like Apple at the end of the day,' Cook told Variety. 'Apple should have something that we pour our passion into, and that's exactly what we're doing with the shows.' Brad Pitt and Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton on the set of 'F1.' Apple has put its full muscle behind 'F1,' which was shot on special cameras for IMAX screens. It kicked off its recent Worldwide Developers Conference with a promotional video for the movie and is offering a discount on tickets bought with Apple Pay—the first time it has done that for a film. Cook has personally hyped it alongside Pitt and Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton, which the CEO typically does only for Apple's most important launches. Hamilton is also a producer on the movie, and his league has marketed 'F1' at its races. But Apple hasn't invested in the capacity to release and advertise its own movies, as Amazon did when it acquired MGM. Warner Bros. is distributing 'F1' for Apple and gets a percentage of box-office revenue that increases with ticket sales, according to a person familiar with the arrangement. That approach saves Apple on overhead costs, but puts it at the mercy of partners that may prioritize their own productions. Warner Bros. is releasing 'Superman,' its most important movie of the year, two weeks after 'F1.' A Warner spokeswoman said it is giving 'F1' a 'robust global marketing campaign that befits a film of its size.' Apple executives have discussed starting their own theatrical distribution unit, people familiar with the matter said. A scene from 'F1,' which hits theaters this week. Write to Ben Fritz at and Joe Flint at Can Brad Pitt's 'F1' Movie Finally Deliver Apple a Big-Screen Hit? Can Brad Pitt's 'F1' Movie Finally Deliver Apple a Big-Screen Hit? Can Brad Pitt's 'F1' Movie Finally Deliver Apple a Big-Screen Hit?
