Broadcasting & Cable News

FCC Challenges Court's Broadcast Dereg Smackdown

November 10, 2019

The FCC is seeking full-court review of a three-judge panel decision vacating its broadcast media ownership deregulation decision. The Commission filed a petition for review Thursday (Nov. 7), arguing that the three-judge panel decision of appeals court imposed burdens beyond those allowed ...

TNDV Television Relies on TSL Products to Upgrade its Broadcast Workflow

November 10, 2019

TNDV Television turned to TSL Products’ TallyMan TM1 MK2+ units to help manage its tally and UMD workflow for various productions, including large-scale multi-stage music festivals and sporting events. The broadcast control systems have been installed across TNDV’s fleet of mobile television ...

‘Criminal Confessions’ Starts on Oxygen Dec. 7

November 10, 2019

A new season of Dick Wolf series Criminal Confessions begins on Oxygen Dec. 7. The season starts with a 90-minute episode on the Chris Watts case, which involved the murder of Shanann Watts and her two daughters in Colorado last year. Criminal Confessions gives an inside look into police ...

NewTek TriCaster® Mini Brings UHD Digital Media Production and Streaming to Schools, Businesses, and Professional AV

November 10, 2019

Today NewTek introduced the next generation TriCaster® Mini, the newest addition to the TriCaster product line and the world’s most complete and compact video production system. The plug-and-play setup of TriCaster Mini allows new video producers to get started quickly, and easily work their way ...

CBS Names D.C. Correspondent

November 10, 2019

CBS has named Nikole Killion correspondent for CBS News, based in Washington. She will report for all platforms, which include Evening News, CBS This Morning and CBSN. Killion was most recently a correspondent for CBS Newspath, its affiliate news service. Killion joined CBS ...

CBA's Pitsch: FCC C-Band Auction Could Mean Legal Delays

November 10, 2019

The C-Band Alliance has a few bones to pick with the testimony at an Oct. 29 House Communications Subcommittee hearing on "Repurposing the C-Band to Benefit All Americans," including arguing that it is an FCC auction that could result in legal delays that could hurt the U.S. in its race to win in ...

Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins as ‘Masked Singer’ Returns

November 10, 2019

Fox won the Wednesday ratings race easily, two hours of The Masked Singer giving the network a 2.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. That doubled runner-up NBC. The Masked Singer had been off for a bit due to the World Series on Fox. It did a 2.1 last time out. The ...

NAB Joins FCC in Challenging Third Circuit

November 10, 2019

The National Association of Broadcasters has joined with the FCC in seeking a full court hearing of the U.S. Court of Appeals' three-judge panel decision vacating most of the FCC's broadcast dereg decision. Broadcasters had backed the FCC's deregulatory decision and would have preferred even more ...

Season Three of 'Cosmos' on Nat Geo March 9

November 10, 2019

A new season of Cosmos, called Cosmos: Possible Worlds, starts March 9 on National Geographic. There are 13 episodes in the season. It will air on Fox in the summer. Neil deGrasse Tyson returns as host. He's also executive science editor on the show. Ann Druyan is creator, executive producer, ...