Ryan Seacrest in Predicts Dominate VH1 Soul Network (Exclusive)

Ryan Seacrest will get much closer to adding their very own cable network to his media empire.our editor recommendsIce Cube, Ryan Seacrest Settling 'New Year's Eve' Plans (Exclusive)Ryan Seacrest Is not Any. 1 on THR's Reality Energy ListJustin Bieber, Beyonce, Ryan Seacrest, Shakira Lead Social Media Movement for AfricaRyan Seacrest Brokers Apparent Funnel, Relativity Media Partnership The multihyphenate, as well as entertainment giant AEG, is at predicts potentially take overMTV Systems internet VH1 Soul, according to sources near the situation. Talks will be in an expert stage, affiliates say, nevertheless the deal-being brokered by CAA-is not done and could still falter. Seacrest's reps declined to comment. What is the news comes nearly yearly following a Hollywood Reporter first reported that Seacrest was joining while using two companies to make a network, known to then just like a music, popular culture and lifestyle-oriented funnel.It could likely pull additional programming from AEG's worldwide concert and live venue assets (like the Staples Center, L.A. Live and London's The 02), andwould Not seen as direct competitor to NBCUniversal cable network E!, where Seacrest has received a extended-term deal. VH1 Soul, a spinoff of MTV Systems' VH1 funnel, might be a-seen digital satellite and cable network specific at fans of soul and R&B, in line with the Viacom website. Careful analysis rebrand a formerly established funnel rather than try to secure distribution associations with satellite and cable companies with an entirely new internet can be a shrewd one inch today's progressively crowded landscape. (Though when the famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey's recent viewership worries at OWN --formerly Discovery Health-- are any suggestion, the first sort is virtually no sure factor.) Inside an April profile, Seacrest told THR that any network deal made wouldn't result in "a Ryan Seacrest funnel," the means by which Winfrey's is high quality OWN. "It will not be high quality with my title or my face, which many individuals will probably be happy about," he quipped in those days. Rather, this next factor sometimes seems a lot more like a company enterprise for just about any guy whose budding empire already includes his decade-extended hosting gig on Fox's The The American Idol Show Show, E! News, his On Air with Ryan Seacrest radio program and creating the Maintaining while using Kardashian franchise. Taken, THR named him "the completely new king of reality TV." In case your deal shuts, Seacrest would work as an essential partner, offering his creating capabilities, his connections to talent and potentially some on-air contributions, though sources the role is not been totally fleshed out. Seacrest's annual pre-tax earnings already exceed $55 million due to his many projects and alluring rolodex, departing executive types for instance NBCUniversal leader Steve Burke to wax on about his talents. "It's rare to find somebody who works extremely well both before and behind the digital camera, but that is really relevant to Ryan," Burke told THR taken. Email: Lacey.Rose@thr.com Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Subjects Ryan Seacrest