Broadcasting & Cable News

Jared DiPalma, NBCU News Group, to Address Media Outlook 2020

September 01, 2019

What is the business strategy that made NBC News the number one brand in news and information? How do they plan to expand globally with Sky and execute through the historic 2020 presidential election? Jared DiPalma, CFO of NBC News will answer these questions and more during his session at ...

Acorn TV’s September Slate Features Exclusive U.S Premieres of Martin Clunes return in his smash hit British dramedy DOC MARTIN, Series 9, New Irish Crime Drama TAKEN DOWN and Italian drama BACK HOME Plus Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy

September 01, 2019

Silver Spring, MD; August 29, 2019 - As we reach the end of summer, bask in the coolness of bingeing with Acorn TV’s September 2019 slate, featuring the U.S. premiere of season 9 of the perennially popular dramedy series DOC MARTIN starring Martin Clunes to air the day after its UK world premiere. ...

ACA Connects: Time for DBS to Pay Fair FCC Fee Share

September 01, 2019

ACA Connects praised the FCC's decision to continue to regularize the regulatory fees paid by cable operators and DBS providers. The FCC released its new fee schedule this week, with the DBS fee raised by 12 cents over last year. Satellite broadcasters used to be assessed a smaller, per-license ...

Broadcast, Cable Seek FCC Extension of Closed Captioning Comments

September 01, 2019

Broadcast and cable operators have asked the FCC for a little more time to comment on a request that the FCC develop "objective, technology-neutral metrics" for the quality of live closed captions. Groups including Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI), National ...

Primetime Ratings: ‘MasterChef’ Leads Fox to Wednesday Win

September 01, 2019

Fox had the top score in Wednesday prime ratings, MasterChef leading the net to a 0.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 4 share. That squeaked by the 0.7/4 that NBC posted. Fox and NBC split the win the week before. MasterChef went up a tenth to 0.8 and BH90210 lost a tenth for a ...

Netflix Goes ‘Dark’ on Update of 1982 Henson Movie

September 01, 2019

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, a series based on the Jim Henson fantasy film from 1982, premieres on Netflix Aug. 30. The series is set before the film, which Henson directed with Frank Oz. The Gelfling are heroes in the Dark Crystal world and the Skeksis are heels. The series has a stunning ...

Nexstar Bringing Back Airing National Anthem

September 01, 2019

One of the nation’s biggest station owners, Nexstar Media Group, is bringing back the daily playing of the national anthem, which traditionally marked the beginning and end of the broadcast day. Nexstar is working with Broadcast Music Inc. and Belmont University’s Curb College of Entertainment and ...

SMPTE and Brazil's SET Launch Joint Membership Program

September 01, 2019

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., and São Paulo — Aug. 27 2019 — SMPTE®, the organization that is defining the future of storytelling, is partnering with the Brazilian Society of Television Engineering (SET) to announce a new joint membership program. Through this new program, SET members will have the ...

Hawley: Big Tech is Exploiting Digital 'Treadmill'

September 01, 2019

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has escalated his war on Big Tech. In an op ed Thursday (Aug. 29) in the Wall Street Journal, Hawley said that rather than being about innovation, Big Tech is about sophisticated and systematic exploitation rather than new products or services, an exploitation that turns ...