Broadcasting & Cable News

Univision Reports Lower Net in Second Quarter

August 18, 2019

Univision reported lower second-quarter net income as revenue declined. In July, Univision announced that its board had initiated a strategic review of the company’s operations, which could lead to the sale of all or part of the business. Net income in the quarter fell 21% to $90.7 million from ...

Xandr to Use Comscore Data for Addressable Ads

August 18, 2019

Xandr, AT&T’s advertising and analytics division, said that it will be using data from Comscore for its addressable advertising offering. Xandr’s addressable offering provides inventory from AT&T DirecTV and has arrangements with distributors Altice USA and Frontier. Working with Comscore ...

Consumers Less Likely to Share Data, ARF Finds

August 18, 2019

At a time when data is becoming increasingly valuable to the television industry, consumers are slightly less likely to want to share their personal information, according to a new study from the Advertising Research Foundation. The ARF’s second annual Privacy Study found that consumers were 10 ...

Cable News Viewers Flock to Dem Debates on CNN

August 18, 2019

The second round of Democratic Presidential debates drew a smaller audience than the first round, with the move to CNN drawing a larger share of traditional cable news viewers, according to an analysis by Samba TV. The number of people who described themselves as neither Democrat or Republican was ...

You.i TV Hires Finance Veteran Ken Taylor as Chief Financial Officer

August 18, 2019

Ottawa, ON, Canada – August 14, 2019 – You.i TV, a global leader in video app experience platforms, today announced that Ken Taylor, a highly regarded executive, advisor and board member with established and high-growth tech and media companies, has joined the company as CFO. Over his 25+ year ...

Fuse Shares Fall Schedule

August 18, 2019

Fuse has announced its fall lineup. Soundcheck to Stage with Rich the Kid, a linear version of the digital docu-series about musicians’ backstage rituals, airs Sept. 2. Complex x Fuse, with celebrities such as J Balvin, Lil Nas X and Juice Wrld answering “burning questions,” said Fuse, begins Oct. ...

Primetime Ratings: Consistent ‘AGT’ Brings NBC Win

August 18, 2019

NBC took the Tuesday prime ratings title, America’s Got Talent leading the net to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That topped the 0.9/5 that ABC posted. Now onto its live shows, America’s Got Talent got a flat 1.4 from 8 to 10 p.m. and Bring the Funny slid 22% for ...

EditShare Announces Its Next Generation of Leadership

August 18, 2019

Boston, MA - August 14, 2019 - On the heels of the majority investment from ParkerGale Capital (May 2019), EditShare, a technology leader in intelligent storage and media management solutions, is pivoting its rapidly growing business to better serve its customers across emerging cloud, remote ...

CBS All Access and Pluto TV to Be ‘Complementary’ in New Viacom-CBS Alignment

August 18, 2019

Although they’ve flirted with remarriage for at least three years, Viacom and CBS Corp. embarked on very different streaming strategies. CBS Corp. launched its very own subscription streaming services from scratch, hoisting CBS All Access and the direct-to-consumer OTT version of Showtime back in ...