Broadcasting & Cable News

MacLetchie Named Programming Head for Gaines-Discovery Net

September 08, 2019

Donna MacLetchie has been named general manager, programming for the new joint venture formed between Discovery and Chip and Joanna Gaines of Fixer Upper. The Gaines’ and Discovery announced their media joint venture earlier this year. It will include a linear TV network and a TV Everywhere app to ...

NextRadioTV Accelerates its Digital Transformation and Network Expansion with Dalet

September 08, 2019

Paris, France – September 5, 2019 – Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, announced today that NextRadioTV has leveraged its existing Dalet Galaxy Media Asset Management (MAM), Workflow Orchestration and Editorial platform located in Paris, ...

Primetime Ratings: NBC Scores With Growing ‘AGT’

September 08, 2019

NBC had the top score in Wednesday prime ratings, as the America’s Got Talent results show led to a 0.8 in viewers 18-49 for the night, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. Close behind was Fox at 0.7/4. America’s Got Talent went up 9% to 1.2. Past standouts Darci Lynne Farmer and Preacher ...

House to Hold Broadband Mapping Hearing

September 08, 2019

The House Communications Subcommittee will hold a hearing Sept. 11 on broadband mapping legislation. FCC chair Ajit Pai has proposed a new, more granular, approach to collecting broadband deployment data, conceding the deficits in the current form 477 framework, but House Dems continue to push for ...

Groups Join FFTF Effort to Ban Facial Recognition Searches

September 08, 2019

More than two dozen advocacy groups have joined in a Fight-for the Future-led effort to face down facial recognition, according to that group. The swelling ranks of biometric pushbackers, which include MoveOn, Color of Change, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and Greenpeace, want ...

FCC to Vote on 3.5 GHz Framework

September 08, 2019

The FCC will launch its latest effort to free up 5G spectrum at its Sept. 26 open meeting. That is according to FCC chair Ajit Pai. The FCC has conducted two spectrum auctions this year, with a third planned to begin in December. He said at that September meeting, the FCC will vote on a draft ...

Pew: Majority OK With Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition

September 08, 2019

A new Pew Research study finds that a majority of adults (56%) trust law enforcement to use facial recognition "responsibly," but advertisers and tech companies? Not so much. Even more (59%) say they trust law enforcement to use those tools to assess threats in public spaces. Those results came ...

Pai Proposes More Broadcast Reg Whacking

September 08, 2019

FCC chair Ajit Pai is proposing to "modernize" some more media ownership rules at its September meeting, according to Pai, who has periodically taken out the regulatory weed whacker he promise early open to use to clear out some bureaucratic underbrush. The commission is scheduled to issue a ...

Paramount Network Orders More ‘Wife Swap’

September 08, 2019

Paramount Network has ordered a fresh season of Wife Swap. A Banijay Group format, unscripted Wife Swap is produced by Banijay Studios North America. There will be 20 episodes. “Wife Swap is an iconic international hit that we knew would resonate with our Paramount Network audience,” says Keith ...