Broadcasting & Cable News

Platform One Media finalizes first-look deal with Jennifer Fox Productions

November 17, 2019

Los Angeles, CA – November 14, 2019 – Katie O’Connell Marsh, Founder and Chairman of Platform One Media (a Boat Rocker company), the Los Angeles-based global television production and distribution studio, has inked a first-look deal with Jennifer Fox, the Academy Award-nominated producer (The ...

Telestream Appoints Diana Horowitz as VP of Sales in Eastern USA

November 17, 2019

Westwood, Massachusetts, November 14 2019 –– Telestream, a leading provider of workflow automation, processing and quality monitoring and management solutions for the production and distribution of video, has announced the appointment of Diana Horowitz as VP Sales, serving the eastern US region. ...

Next Season of ‘Goliath’ the Final One on Amazon

November 17, 2019

Amazon Studios has picked up a fourth season of offbeat legal drama Goliath, starring Billy Bob Thornton. It will be the final season. Season three premiered on Amazon Prime Oct. 4. Executive producers are Lawrence Trilling, Geyer Kosinski, and Jennifer Ames & Steve Turner. “Goliath has been ...

Groups Praise Big Tech Impact on Small Business

November 17, 2019

One of the big knocks on Big Tech is that the government has allowed it to gobble up smaller startups and anticompetitively hurt smaller competitors lacking the resulting scale and resources. But in a Hill hearing Thursday, a couple of witnesses said that, on balance, tech giants have been a net ...

Apple Orders Gary Oldman Drama for Streaming Service

November 17, 2019

Apple has ordered a new original drama starring Gary Oldman for Apple TV+, the streaming service that launched last week. The show, Slow Horses, is being adapted from the British espionage books written by Mick Herron. It is being written by Will Smith and he will executive produce along with ...

RTÉ and Acorn TV with Acorn Media Enterprises Commission The Return of Irish Comedy FINDING JOY Created, Written and Starring Amy Huberman

November 17, 2019

Produced by Treasure Entertainment, Series 2 begins filming this week in Dublin Silver Spring, MD; November 15, 2019 – AMC Networks’ Acorn TV with Acorn Media Enterprises (AME) and Irish broadcaster RTÉ have commissioned the return of Irish comedy Finding Joy from Treasure Entertainment. Created, ...

Nunes: Media Hacks Aid Attempt to 'Overthrow' Trump

November 17, 2019

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, continued his anti-media rhetoric Friday (Nov. 15), saying that the Democrats were trying to "overthrow" the President, with the help of "media hacks." That came in his opening statement for day two of what he called ...

Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Shoots Rare Show Content For Mumford & Sons

November 17, 2019

Fremont, CA - November 15, 2019 - Blackmagic Design today announced that award winning live director, Steve Price, used the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K to create a cinematic, slow motion backdrop for Mumford & Sons’ recent appearance at the iHeart Radio music festival in Las Vegas. ...

Sony Showcases Prototype of New 24-inch Monitor for 4K HDR Production

November 17, 2019

Sony Electronics unveiled a prototype of its new 24-inch 4K LCD professional picture monitor for the first time at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition 2019 (Inter BEE 2019) in Japan. The portable monitor offers high grade picture quality and accurate color reproduction and is ideal for ...