Broadcasting & Cable News

Pai Proposal Resolves USTelecom Forbearance Petition

July 07, 2019

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has circulated a proposal to grant USTelecom what is described as two narrow portions of its request for forbearance from applying some copper-era Telecommunications Act voice service support regs to an increasingly fiber world. But it does not retire broadband-related ...

MSG Networks to Offer Vegas Sports Betting Content

July 07, 2019

MSG Networks said it has reached an agreement with the Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN) to bring its sports betting content to the regional sports network five days per week. VSiN’s “Follow the Money” began airing on Monday, July 1 and will be available every weekday from 1 p.m. to 4 ...

FCC Denies/Dismisses beIN Sports Complaint Against Comcast

July 07, 2019

The FCC has denied part and dismissed part of beIN Sports' program carriage complaint against Comcast. It was the third complaint filed by the programmer, which argued that the Media Bureau, in an order released late Tuesday (July 2), concluded that beIN failed to make a case for discrimination ...

Food Network Gives ‘Chopped Junior’ TV’s Biggest Promo Push for the Second Week in a Row

July 07, 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 ...

Democratic Senators Take Issue with Kids Rule Revamp

July 07, 2019

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), joined by eight other Democratic senators--three of them presidential candidates--has asked the FCC to dial back its kids TV rule dereg big time. That came in a letter last week in response to a draft order circulated for a vote at the July 10 open meeting. The senators ...

23% of Subscribers Would Drop if Netflix Had Ads

July 07, 2019

Netflix subscribers aren’t chill with the idea of adding commercials to the streaming service. In a new study from Hub Entertainment Research, 23% of current Netflix subscribers said they would definitely or probably drop the streaming service if ads were included for the same price they’re ...

People Watching Dem Debate Were Big TV Watchers: Samba

July 07, 2019

The first two debates among the Democratic candidates for president drew more viewers than expected, but an analysis by Samba TV found that few of those viewers were light TV viewers. Looking at both debates, Samba’s data shows that 48.2% of those who tuned in are classified as heavy TV viewers, ...

'Walking Dead' Comic Book Ends, But Series Lives On

July 07, 2019

The comic book that spawned the mega-hit The Walking Dead is ending but zombies won’t be leaving TV any time soon. In a well-disguised surprise, Wednesday’s issue of The Walking Dead is being described as the last one that comic book stores will get. It will be 84 pages--more than twice as long as ...

FCC's Carr Calls Out EBS 'Steward'

July 07, 2019

The FCC has taken flak for trying to free up spectrum in a band (2.5 GHz) used, or FCC Republicans would argue underused, by educational broadband services (EBS), but Republican commissioner Brendan Carr says that some "national organizations" may be "siphoning millions of dollars" for purposes ...