Broadcasting & Cable News

WarnerMedia Wraps Up Upfront Ad Deals

July 07, 2019

AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit is done with its sales in what appears to have been a very strong upfront market. WarnerMedia--mostly the Turner cable networks in terms of ad sales--saw the same single-digit growth in dollar volume as other programmers have seen, according to a source familiar with the ...

Bravo Hails a Ride With Lion Television’s ‘Cash Cab’

July 07, 2019

Bravo Media said it is bringing back the game show Cash Cab, with new episodes to be shot this summer for a premiere later this year. Cash Cab aired on the Discovery Channel from 2005 to 2012, with new seasons in 2018 and 2019. Bravo’s new episodes will be produced by Lion Television, a division of ...

Primetime Ratings: ABC Does it Again With 'The Bachelorette'

July 07, 2019

Monday night's Bachelorette won it for ABC with a 1.2 and a 6 share overall, according to Nielsen overnight ratings in adults 18-49. The show stayed the same as last week with a 1.5 average from 8 to 10 p.m. Grand Hotel also stayed the same as last week. Up next was NBC at a 0.8/4. ...

Cable Ops, CCA Team for C-Band Proposal

July 07, 2019

Smaller cable operators (ACA Connects), competitive carriers and computer companies (the Competitive Carriers Association), have joined with Charter to offer up their own proposal for clearing a bunch--370 MHz at least--of C-Band midband satellite spectrum ((3.7-4.2 GHz) ) for advanced terrestrial ...

Axon's Neuron Processor Makes Its Outside Broadcast Debut On Cloudbass' New IP Truck

July 07, 2019

UK Outside Broadcast specialist Cloudbass has become the first outside broadcast company in the world to transform an existing OB truck from HD-SDI to UHD IP using Axon Digital Design’s next generation signal processing technology. The transformation allows Cloudbass to offer broadcasters all ...

Media Companies Stand Up for LGBTQ Rights

July 07, 2019

Media companies were well represented on an amicus (friend of the court) brief filed in support of LGBTQ rights with the Supreme Court. CBS, Comcast/NBCU, WarenerMedia, Cox, Viacom, and AT&T were among the over 200 companies weighing on three cases that the Human Rights Coalition (HRC) says ...

Syndication Ratings: Women’s World Cup Continues to Score on Syndies

July 07, 2019

The FIFA Women’s World Cup on Fox continued to suppress ratings for syndicated shows in the week ended June 23, especially on June 17 and June 20, but some shows were able to come back after a week of season and series lows. With CTD’s Jeopardy! finally falling back to earth with the June 3 defeat ...

DVB to Demonstrate Advanced OTT Delivery Features and Deployment Readiness of DVB-I at IBC2019

July 07, 2019

At IBC2019, DVB will demonstrate how it is enabling an open standards-based approach to OTT and broadband television through its new DVB-I suite of specifications, highlighting support for low latency, enhanced service discovery, and mABR. "The DVB-I suite of specifications is quickly taking shape ...

Report: AT&T Mulling Sale of RSNs

July 07, 2019

Just weeks after The Walt Disney Co., sold its 21 regional sports networks for about $10 billion, AT&T could be getting in on the act, with reports saying the phone giant is mulling the possibility of selling its four RSNs to the highest bidder. According to a Bloomberg News report, AT&T is ...