Broadcasting & Cable News

Syndication Ratings: Progress Impeached by Public Hearings

December 08, 2019

Wall-to-wall coverage of public impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives across major broadcast affiliates caused massive preemptions and skewed ratings in the pre-Thanksgiving week ended Nov. 24. As a result, some shows only counted a two-day average, namely Monday and Friday, with ...

Digital Nirvana's New MonitorIQ 6.1 Enhances Ad Insertion, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting

December 08, 2019

FREMONT, Calif. — Dec. 5, 2019 — Digital Nirvana, a provider of leading-edge media-monitoring and metadata generation services, today announced new enhancements within MonitorIQ 6.1, the company's next-generation broadcast monitoring and compliance logging platform. A new Digital Program Monitoring ...

Murderers, Coppers, Teachers, and Teens’ Bad Behaviour on Ultra Macho

December 08, 2019

West Palm Beach, FL – December 6, 2019 – Ultra Macho, Olympusat’s HD channel featuring the best in travel, extreme sports, Mexican wrestling, cars, late-night adult shows, reality series, documentaries and other programming aimed at the Ultra Macho, announces the network premiere of the Australian ...

Recreate the Magic from Frozen II with a New Red Giant Cheap Tricks Tutorial

December 08, 2019

Portland, OR - December 5, 2019 - Red Giant has released another Cheap Tricks episode: Frozen II VFX, in which Daniel “Hashi” Hashimoto of Action Movie Kid demonstrates how to recreate the magical visual effects from the newest Frozen film. Now available on YouTube for unlimited viewing pleasure, ...

NAB Warns FCC About 6 GHz Interference with ENG

December 08, 2019

Broadcasters are asking the FCC to make sure it protects incumbent newsgathering operations in the 6 GHz midband spectrum it is eyeing for unlicensed use. The FCC voted unanimously in October 2018 to propose opening up the 1,200 MHz of that midband spectrum for unlicensed use, including ...

Sanders Unveils High-Speed 'Net for All

December 08, 2019

Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has unveiled a High-Speed Internet for All plan that would accomplish that, by funding government buildouts, regulating commercial broadband rates and breaking up or regulating "internet monopolies." Sander's said it would cost $150 billion to ...

Sigma Announces Pricing & Availability for its Line of Full-Frame Classic Art Prime Cine Lenses and /i Technology-compatible Cine Art Prime PL-Mount Lenses

December 08, 2019

Ronkonkoma, NY – December 6, 2019 – Sigma Corporation of America, a leading still photo and cinema lens, camera, flash and accessory manufacturer, today announced pricing and availability for its all new line of full-frame Classic Art Prime Cine lenses and /i Technology- compatible Cine Art Prime ...

FTC Finds Cambridge Analytica Engaged in Deceptive Practices

December 08, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission has put its official stamp on what most already knew: data company Cambridge Analytica "engaged in deceptive practices, in violation of the FTC Act--to harvest personal information from tens of millions of Facebook users for voter profiling and targeting." It was ...

Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Cowboys-Bears

December 08, 2019

Fox won Thursday prime by a mile, as a hearty Thursday Night Football gave the network a 3.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and an 18 share. In a distant second was ABC at 0.8/4. Fox had Cowboys versus Bears across prime. The previous Thursday was Thanksgiving, the on-air offerings a ...