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Startup Pluto TV — which is trying to build the world’s biggest service for free TV and other video programming — announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, led by German media giant ProSiebenSat.1 with participation from Scripps Networks Interactive, Sallfort PrivatBank and others.

Jim Samples, president, international, Scripps Networks Interactive, talks about plans for thematic channels, the free-to-air market and the company’s plans for TVN in Poland.

Storytelling, branded content, bespoke, cross-platform, audience development and partnership were big buzzwords throughout Advertising Week. When packaged together, the power of ideas and insights can create magic. 

Scripps is doing well and proving that if it were to be acquired, a deal wouldn't be from any position of weakness. 

What do you call a gathering of yetis? Whatever the name, there were plenty of them in New York City when 26 costumed cryptids rolled up to the iconic Flatiron Building, their visit heralding the Oct. 5 premiere of the Travel Channel special "Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti," 

A building near U.S. Highway 411 will become a place for an injured Navy veteran to enjoy the quiet activity of art, but it echoed with noise Friday as volunteers from Scripps Networks Interactive built the studio and a ramp connecting the log-style home as part of Scripps' National Volunteer Day.

Travel Channel’s buzz-building efforts behind its unscripted, four-part series Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti will culminate in a NYC-based, street campaign Oct. 4, a day before the show’s premiere.

The Scripps Networks group overcame strong competition from the Olympics and the election to score big audience gains in the third quarter. 

She Builds is a nationwide event series, created by Rebuilding Together, featuring community revitalization projects that create real change for women - providing critical home repairs and community restoration to women in need, while giving women the confidence and skills to maintain a safe and healthy home. 

Alton Brown’s new book, “Every Day Cook: This Time It’s Personal,” is his eighth, but the first in which he offers at least a small peek into the ways he cooks and eats at home.