Broadcasting & Cable News

ATEME TITAN UHD Powers TV CULTURA’s First Live 4K-UHD Broadcast

December 15, 2019

PARIS, DENVER, SINGAPORE, SAO PAULO, 12 December 2019 – ATEME, the emerging leader in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT announced today that TV CULTURA, the Brazilian public broadcaster recognized worldwide for producing educational and cultural content, and part of ...

FCC Votes to Create Suicide Hotline Short Code

December 15, 2019

The FCC has voted to propose designating 988 as the national suicide prevention and mental health hotline number, which will automatically connect callers to the current, longer, hotline number (1-800-273-8255). The vote was unanimous. Related: FCC's Pai Proposes 988 for Suicide Hotline The FCC's ...

AMC Networks Pops Up at Agencies For the Holidays

December 15, 2019

‘Tis the season when television networks like to send gifts to their advertising clients and the media buyers who advise them. Rather than mail treats in impersonal boxes, this year AMC Networks decided to set up holiday pop-up stores in lobbies and conference rooms at media agencies in New York, ...

Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra Jonas Behind Amazon Series

December 15, 2019

An unscripted series featuring Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, inspired by an Indian pre-wedding tradition called sangeet, is a go at Amazon Studios. Jonas and Chopra Jonas will executive produce the competition show. The sangeet takes place the night before the wedding, bringing together the ...

Vudu Offers to Match Video Rental Prices

December 15, 2019

Vudu, Walmart’s video service, is launching two new programs Thursday designed to ensure viewers have a positive experience and get the lowest price on rentals. Under Vudu’s Rental Price Match program, customers can call Vudu if they rent a video from Vudu or Digital Video by Vudu and subsequently ...

Binge Watch? Hulu’s Got A New Kind of Ad For You

December 15, 2019

With a big share of streaming video viewers binge-watching series, Hulu has come up with a rewarding way to connect them with sponsors. The first advertisers taking advantage of the binge watching ad experience are Kellogg’s, Maker’s Mark and Georgia-Pacific, all clients of Publicis Media, the ...

Rosenworcel Slams FCC Focus on High Band

December 15, 2019

FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel used her statement in support of an item potentially freeing up some midband spectrum in the 3.1-3.55 for 5G--it passed unanimously--to hammer the FCC for focusing on millimeter-wave auctions, which she called the wrong lane to 5G, rather than midband spectrum. ...

Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Stalwart ‘Singer’

December 15, 2019

Fox scored the top rating in Wednesday Nielsens, with The Masked Singer leading the net to a 1.3 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That easily beat the 0.8/4 that CBS tallied. The Masked Singer did a 1.9 and Almost Family a 0.6. Both went up a tenth of a point. On CBS, ...

Imagine Products Announces Integration of ShotPut Pro and TrueCheck With Frame.io Media Collaboration Hub

December 15, 2019

INDIANAPOLIS — Dec. 9, 2019 — Imagine Products, creator of software utilities for backing up, viewing, sharing, analyzing, transcoding, and archiving video assets, today announced an integration of its ShotPut Pro and TrueCheck solutions with the industry-leading Frame.io cloud-based collaboration ...