Broadcasting & Cable News

Veritone Inks Deal With ART19 to Use aiWARE for Intelligent Ad Targeting in Podcasting

August 18, 2019

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Aug. 15, 2019 — Veritone, Inc. (Nasdaq: VERI), the creator of the world's first operating system for artificial intelligence, aiWARE™, today announced an agreement with ART19, a leading podcast hosting, content management, monetization, and measurement platform. ART19 will use ...

Univision Music Series Promotes Donations to El Paso, Dayton

August 11, 2019

Univision says its Uforia Music Series stops in Dallas and Houston Aug. 8 and 10, respectively, will include opportunities to donate to help the survivors of the Dayton and El Paso shootings. Concertgoers can donate in person, or via Univision.com/Unidos and Univision social media platforms. ...

Fox Reports Lower Fourth-Quarter Net

August 11, 2019

Fox reported lower earnings in its fiscal fourth quarter as ad revenues declined and corporate expenses were greater as a new, standalone company. Net income dropped to $454 million, or 73 cents per share, from $471 million, or 76 cents a share. The company said costs were higher as a standalone ...

Charter Challenges Broadcasters' ATSC 3.0 Value-Added Argument

August 11, 2019

Charter execs put on something of a full court press at FCC last week to talk down broadcaster's ATSC 3.0 transition. That is according to a filing at the FCC, showing they met with staffers in the Media Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology, as well as aides to four of the five ...

Adam Gotlieb Joins Matrix as CTO

August 11, 2019

Matrix announces the addition of industry-veteran Adam Gotlieb to the Matrix Solutions team as the CTO. In this new role, Gotlieb will drive the company’s next generation product evolution by helping deliver to market the recently announced Matrix Sales Gateway, a portal that allows for the ...

CNN Rings in August With Weekly Cable Primetime Ratings Win

August 11, 2019

CNN rode its coverage of the Democratic Presidential Debates to a first place finish on the cable primetime ratings chart during the first week of August, according to Nielsen. CNN averaged 3.2 million viewers during the week of July 29 to Aug. 4 to top all cable networks, said Nielsen. The ...

Inaugural Rise Awards Announces Shortlist

August 11, 2019

Rise, the award-winning advocate group for gender diversity within the broadcast manufacturing and services sector, is pleased to reveal the shortlist for its first ever Rise Awards. The judges saw a stellar selection of global nominations from women in a variety of roles across the industry in ...

Playback Engineer Taylor Wright Relies on RME Digiface Dante for Upcoming Tour with Tyler the Creator

August 11, 2019

Los Angeles, August 7, 2019 – Following a string of chart-topping solo albums, including his Grammy-nominated 2017 LP Flower Boy, Tyler the Creator's latest album Igor debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart this past May. In preparation for the arena-sized venues he will perform at during his ...

Former Sony Exec Carney Named Fox Entertainment COO

August 11, 2019

Former Sony executive Amy Carney has been named COO for Fox Entertainment. Carney will be responsible for overseeing research, strategy and operations for the new media company. She will be based in Los Angeles and report to Charlie Collier, CEO of Fox Entertainment. “I’m pleased to welcome Amy to ...