Broadcasting & Cable News

AWS Elemental MediaLive Offers Statistical Multiplexing for Better Broadcast Quality, Performance, and Bandwidth Management

December 01, 2019

Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) is now available with AWS Elemental MediaLive, Statmux is a technology used in live broadcast workflows that allocates bits in real time among multiple live video channels. It instantaneously adjusts the bitrate of each channel in the statmux pool to make the best ...

The Red Giant Year End Sale Returns Bigger and Better than Ever on December 10th

December 01, 2019

Portland, OR - November 26, 2019 - In just two weeks, Red Giant will kick off its Year End Sale, the 24-hour annual blowout on all Red Giant tools, running from 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST) on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 to 8:00 a.m. PST (11:00 a.m. EST) Wednesday, December 11, 2019. This year’s ...

Wirecast Socializes American Football in Germany!

December 01, 2019

Westwood, Massachusetts, November 26, 2019 –– “Without Wirecast, we can’t do our job. We took a long time in selecting our live streaming platform – we evaluated multiple options – but Wirecast’s flexible license model, its multi-user operating system and the inherent stability of the platform on ...

Syndication Ratings: James Holzhauer Leads 'Jeopardy!' to Overall Win

December 01, 2019

James Holzhauer's win of Jeopardy!'s Tournament of Champions in the week ended Nov. 17 scored for the veteran game show as well, spiking 7% to a 7.2 live plus same day household rating, according to Nielsen Media Research. That gave CBS Television Distribution's Jeopardy! the overall household lead ...

House Judiciary Schedules First Impeachment Hearing

December 01, 2019

The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled its first hearing in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump as it considers drafting articles of impeachment. The hearing will be Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. No witness or witnesses have been identified, but the hearing is billed as "The ...

Univision, ‘Chicago Reporter’ Join for Cross-Platform News

December 01, 2019

Univision Chicago and The Chicago Reporter said they are combining to create Latinext, a cross-newsroom, cross-platform bilingual news operation to serve the 2.1 million people in the Latinx community in the Chicago area. The move follows the announcement earlier this month that Tribune Publishing ...

AT&T Reaches Agreement With CW Affiliate in Nashville

December 01, 2019

AT&T reached a renewal of its retransmission agreement with Nashville License Holdings, which owns the CW affiliate in Nashville, lifting a six-month blackout and ending a dispute that affected a dozen stations that operate under shared service agreements with Sinclair Broadcast Group. The most ...

Fox Gives College Football TV’s Biggest Promo Push

December 01, 2019

B&C has partnered with always-on TV ad measurement and attribution company iSpot.tv to bring you a weekly chart we call Promo Mojo: exclusive data showing the top five TV promos ranked by ad impressions. These are the shows networks have been promoting most heavily to drive tune-in (our data ...

Cartoon Net Head Miller Latest Ex-Turner Exec to Leave AT&T

December 01, 2019

Christina Miller, president of AT&T’s Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang and TCM said she will be leaving the company. Miller, a 15-year veteran of what was Turner Broadcasting before it was acquired by AT&T and folded into WarnerMedia, is the latest in a procession of former Time ...