Broadcasting & Cable News

Spend Thanksgiving With 'Friends'

December 01, 2019

Spend Thanksgiving with your favorite Friends as Warner Bros. slates an off-network marathon with Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Monica, featuring the series’ Thanksgiving episodes. Included in the marathon are episodes in which Monica puts a turkey on her head for love of Chandler, ...

Introducing: Red Giant Complete for Individuals, Students and Teachers, the All-Access Annual Subscription to Editing, Motion Graphics and VFX Tools

December 01, 2019

Portland, OR – November 25, 2019 – Red Giant today announced the availability of Red Giant Complete for individuals, students and teachers. Expanding its software licensing options, Red Giant Complete is a subscription service that gives editors, motion designers and VFX artists all Red Giant tools ...

FCC Approves Tweaked Multi-Billion-Dollar Apollo Purchase of Cox, Northwest Stations

December 01, 2019

The FCC's Media Bureau has approved the multi-billion-dollar sale of Cox and Northwest TV and radio stations to Apollo Global Management's newly formed Terrier Media on the promise of some tweaks to align the deal with a court decision throwing out some FCC broadcast dereg. That decision ...

CRM Studios Still Going Strong with Facilis

December 01, 2019

HUDSON, MA (November 25, 2019) – Facilis, a leading international supplier of cost-effective, high performance shared storage solutions for collaborative media production networks, today announced that Texas-based CRM Studios recently added a new Facilis Shared storage system to support its ...

Saint-Petersburg Television Selects Medialooks VT Server to Deliver Master Feeds to Remote Venues

December 01, 2019

Saint-Petersburg Television Selects Medialooks VT Server to Deliver Master Feeds to Remote Venues Cost-effective and dependable solution delivers master feed to remote venues with low-latency St. Petersburg – November 25, 2019 – Medialooks, global provider of innovative video transport streaming ...

Sponsors Rush for Pregame as Fox Sells Out Super Bowl

December 01, 2019

Advertisers rushed to buy pre-game, post-game and other NFL inventory as Fox posted an early sellout for February’s Super Bowl game. Fox executive VP for sports sales Seth Winter said in-game spots are sold out as a price that topped out at $5.6 million. An advertiser who had a long-term deal with ...

Standard Media Group Buys Waypoint, Vision Stations

December 01, 2019

Standard Media Group said it acquired nine TV stations from Waypoint Media and Vision Communications for $59.9 million. The stations are in six markets. The transaction marks the second time this year Standard Media has acquired stations. It bought two Citadel stations for $83 million in May. “This ...

Riot Games uses Nevion Virtuoso with JPEG XS in remote production of League of Legends World Championship Final

December 01, 2019

Oslo, Norway, 25 November 2019 – Nevion, award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, announced today that Riot Games, the publisher of the most-played PC game in the world and the organization behind League of Legends Esports, used Nevion’s software-defined media node Virtuoso ...

Olympusat Picks Up Three 2019 Telly Awards for Palm Beach Promotional Videos

December 01, 2019

West Palm Beach, Fla. – November 26, 2019 – Olympusat, Inc., a leader in the television and media space with its extensive portfolio of HD English- and Spanish-language television networks, Spanish-language programming, award-winning original content, announced that it took home three awards at the ...