Broadcasting & Cable News

Price Hike Leads ViacomCBS To Drop SEC Football in 2023

December 22, 2019

ViacomCBS decided to walk away from the high-rated package of SEC college football package after its offer for the rights it has held since 1996 were topped another bidder. ESPN/ABC is looking to close a deal with the SEC paying more than six times the $55 million per year fee CBS pays under its ...

Lindsay Elizabeth Donovan Joins Encore Vancouver as Vice President of Sales

December 15, 2019

Los Angeles, CA 11 December, 2019 - Deluxe, the leading content creation to distribution company, today announced that Lindsay Elizabeth Donovan has joined Encore Vancouver, a Deluxe subsidiary, in the role of Vice President, Sales. Reporting to Mark Smirnoff, Executive Vice President, Global ...

Season Five of ‘The Circus’ on Showtime Jan. 26

December 15, 2019

Season five of The Circus starts on Showtime Jan. 26. Hosted by John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon and Alex Wagner, The Circus is a docu-series covering politics. Season four ended Nov. 10. The Iowa caucuses happen Feb. 3, a week after the new season begins. Related: Showtime Orders Season Two of ...

Kre8 Media Selects Xytech’s MediaPulse to Streamline Employee Scheduling

December 15, 2019

Las Vegas, December 11, 2019 — When Jamie Watkins left her position at Warner Brothers in Los Angeles to run operations at her husband’s growing outdoor advertising company, Kre8 Media in Las Vegas, she brought one takeaway with her: Xytech’s MediaPulse facilities management software to handle the ...

Syndication Ratings: ‘Live’ Unseats ‘Dr. Phil’ to Top Talk in Thanksgiving Week

December 15, 2019

The session ending Dec. 1 included the extremely low-rated Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday and Disney’s Live with Kelly and Ryan had plenty to be grateful for. Live held steady at its season-high 2.1 live plus same day national Nielsen rating for a fifth straight week and that was enough to take ...

‘Survivor’ Contestant Ejected After ‘Incident’

December 15, 2019

Survivor contestant Dan Spilo has been booted from the game following an off-screen incident on the program. At the end of the episode on Dec. 11, host Jeff Probst turned up at the contestants’ camp and informed them that Spilo was out. As the episode ended, this appeared on screen: “Dan was ...

Cloudbass Places Axon Technology At The Heart of Its First Multivendor, Fully UHD IP HDR Outside Broadcast Truck

December 15, 2019

Driven by growing market demand for 4K production, leading UK Outside Broadcast specialist Cloudbass has become the first company in the world to create a truly end-to-end, multivendor UHD IP HDR Outside Broadcast vehicle based on the ST2110 standard and with Axon’s Neuron signal processing ...

Disney Junior Orders Season Two of ‘Mira, Royal Detective’

December 15, 2019

Disney Junior has ordered a second season of Mira, Royal Detective ahead of its debut in spring 2020. Set in an Indian-inspired land of Jalpur, the animated series follows resourceful Mira, a commoner who is appointed to the role of royal detective by the queen and travels throughout her kingdom to ...

NUGEN Audio Awarded Chinese Trademark

December 15, 2019

LEEDS, UK, DECEMBER 12, 2019 – NUGEN Audio is pleased to announce that the brand has earned an official trademark in China, following a several months-long approvals process. The trademark was fully authorized by the China Trademark Office on October 7, 2019. NUGEN registered for the trademark on ...