Broadcasting & Cable News

Season Two of ‘The Purge’ and Season One of ‘Treadstone’ On USA October 15

August 25, 2019

Season two of The Purge starts on USA Network October 15, leading into new series Treadstone. Based on the movie franchise, The Purge revolves around a 12-hour period when all crime is legal. Season two explores how a single Purge night affects the lives of four connected characters over the course ...

Country Music-Themed Gala, Sparkle and Twang, to Benefit Nine Network

August 25, 2019

St. Louis, MO — August 23, 2019 — Nine Network’s biennial Pioneer Spirit Gala will take place Saturday, September 21, at 6:00 p.m. at The Ritz-Carlton. The gala will honor the legacy of Jack Galmiche, president and CEO, who passed away suddenly in April, celebrate Nine’s 65th birthday, and feature ...

Disney+ Adds Six New Titles To Streaming Service Lineup

August 25, 2019

Three months before its launch, The Walt Disney Co.’s streaming service, Disney+ added more series to its roster at D23 Expo, a convention for fans of all things from the home of Mickey Mouse. The new shows feature well known characters--known in the business world as intellectual ...

Spiderman is Swinging Over to Disney Jr. In New Marvel Series

August 25, 2019

Marvel Animation & Family Entertainment is producing a new original Spiderman series for Disney Junior that is title Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends. The series, the first produced by Marvel for Disney Junior, is set to debut in 20201 and will feature Peter Parker (aka Spidey) and his ...

Fishburne Gets Green Light For Disney Channel Series

August 25, 2019

Disney Channel ordered Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, an animated series being executive produced by Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland’s Cinema Gypsy Productions, Marvel Animation & Family Entertainment and Steve Loter. The show is based on a Marvel comic book and is about a 13-year ...

Broadband Growth Slowed to 370K in Q2

August 18, 2019

The top 16 U.S. high-speed internet providers, covering 96% of the market, added 370,000 customers in the second quarter, off from the 480,000 added on a pro forma basis in the same period of 2018, according to new research from Leichtman Research Group. The dip is an anomaly for now—customers ...

Quincy Media installs Mediaproxy LogServer as part of next generation compliance and logging system

August 18, 2019

Melbourne, Australia - 14 August 2019 - Mediaproxy, the leading provider of software-based IP broadcast solutions, announces that Quincy Media is to implement the LogServer compliance logging and off-air monitoring platform as part of a major overhaul of its monitoring and compliance operations. ...

Facilis Next Gen HUB Shared Storage System makes European debut at IBC2019

August 18, 2019

HUDSON, MA (August 13, 2019) – Facilis, a leading international supplier of cost-effective, high performance shared storage solutions for collaborative media production networks today announced that IBC2019 will see the first European presentation of its newly shipped HUB Shared Storage System, and ...

Disney Channel Gives ‘Descendants 3’ TV’s Biggest Promo Push

August 18, 2019

B&C has partnered with always-on TV ad measurement and attribution company iSpot.tv to bring you a weekly chart we call Promo Mojo: exclusive data showing the top five TV promos ranked by ad impressions. These are the shows networks have been promoting most heavily to drive tune-in (our data ...