Broadcasting & Cable News

O'Rielly Sees Need for Speed in C-Band Repurposing

October 27, 2019

FCC commissioner Michael O'Rielly said this week that getting money to the Treasury is definitely a possibility, it the FCC's priority in repurposing C-Band satellite spectrum is to get it into the hands of terrestrial 5G innovators ASAP. O'Rielly made that point in a speech to the Mobile World ...

VERANCE JOINS AWARN ALLIANCE, FURTHERING ITS COMMITMENT TO DELIVERING ADVANCED EMERGENCY ALERTS

October 27, 2019

San Diego, October 24, 2019 - Verance, an award-winning provider of open standard watermarking, today announced it is furthering its commitment to advanced emergency alerting as one of the newest members of the Advanced Warning and Response Network (AWARN) Alliance. The AWARN Alliance is a ...

Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Series

October 27, 2019

Fox won the prime ratings battle, game two of the World Series giving the network a 2.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 13 share. In second was NBC at 1.2/5. Nationals-Astros took up all of Fox’s prime, and lost a tenth of a point from the Series opener. Game two of last year’s ...

HBO Max Adds Original Programming From CNN

October 27, 2019

AT&T CNN unit will be contributing to the programming on the company’s upcoming streaming service HBO Max, with four original unscripted projects getting green lights. The slate includes the series Heaven’s Gate and Generation Hustle (working title) and the feature-length documentaries The ...

Maureen McCormick, Alison Victoria Host ‘White House Christmas 2019’ on HGTV

October 27, 2019

Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia Brady on The Brady Bunch, will join Windy City Rehab star Alison Victoria to co-host White House Christmas 2019 on HGTV. The pair will offer a room-by-room tour of the White House in Washington. The one-hour special airs in December. “The White House is the ...

17th Annual Hispanic TV Summit Preview

October 27, 2019

(October 23, 2019) NEW YORK NY – Group M’s Gonzalo Del Fa opens the Hispanic TV Summit with remarks about the state of the Hispanic TV and video business, Wednesday, October 30 at The Westin New York at Times Square. He’ll share changing options for media placement as the Hispanic market approaches ...

Google Adds New Features For Advanced OTT Ads

October 27, 2019

Reacting to the growth of over-the-top and streaming TV services, Google had developed new advanced TV products that combine the precision of digital with the scale and control of TV. Connected TV has become the leading device in North America for Google Ad Manager users and the new products ...

Discovery selects Synamedia’s virtualized DCM to support its Asia Pacific migration to cloud encoding

October 27, 2019

LOS ANGELES (SMPTE2019 booth #310) – October 22, 2019 – Synamedia, the world’s largest independent video software provider, today announced that Discovery, Inc. has chosen its virtualized Digital Content Manager (DCM) from its video network portfolio to increase operational efficiencies for its ...

Expanded Cloud Media Workflow for Live Streaming from Space Successfully Tested During SMPTE 2019

October 27, 2019

LOS ANGELES and WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Oct. 24, 2019 — Today at SMPTE 2019, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully tested a workflow that marks the first use of cloud resources for data storage and video origination for streaming from ...