Broadcasting & Cable News

Supremes' FCC Case Remand Could Weaken Commission's Defense of Decisions

June 23, 2019

The Supreme Court has vacated a lower court decision on the FCC's enforcement of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, in the process raising questions about the FCC's ability to enforce other rules and regs, depending on how they are crafted and what court is reviewing them. At least that is ...

White House Updates AI R&D Plan

June 23, 2019

The White House has updated its strategic plan for research and development of artificial intelligence, with a new emphasis on coordinated efforts among government, private industry and academia. The update is to a 2016 plan under President Obama, and reflects the emphasis President Trump put on ...

Locast Launches in L.A., San Francisco

June 23, 2019

Locast.com has launched in two major, make that "majorist" West Coast markets--Los Angeles and San Francisco. That comes only days after it announced it had launched in two smaller, midwest markets--Sioux Falls and Rapid City, both South Dakota. Locast is the free, nonprofit, online ...

Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With ‘Spin the Wheel’ Premiere

June 23, 2019

Fox won the top spot in Thursday ratings, a couple unscripted shows pacing the net. Fox’s 0.8 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and 4 share beat the 0.7/4 that ABC got. Fox had MasterChef up 17% at 0.7 and the premiere of Spin the Wheel at 0.8. Justin Timberlake executive ...

Senate Dems Want Confirmation of Big Tech Investigations

June 23, 2019

Senate Democrats, including a couple of presidential candidates, have called on both the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department to give out info on "possible" antitrust investigations into Amazon and Facebook (FTC), Google and Apple (Justice). That came in letters to both from Sens. ...

Dish and Comscore Say They’ve Executed More Than 100 Addressable Campaigns Together

June 23, 2019

Dish Network and Comscore said they have jointly executed more than 100 cross-platform addressable advertising campaigns. According to the joint benchmark announcement, Dish Media has completed more than 100 addressable campaigns across the Dish satellite TV and Sling TV platforms, using Comscore ...

CableLabs Publishes Specifications for Low Latency DOCSIS

June 23, 2019

CableLabs has released new specifications for DOCSIS 3.1 that enable the HFC network technology standard to support the very low latency required for virtual reality and online gaming. Low Latency DOCSIS (LLD) is a software upgrade to existing DOCSIS 3.1 equipment, blogged Steve Glennon, ...

FCC Pai: Study on 24 GHz Weather Data Issue is Fundamentally Flawed

June 16, 2019

FCC chair Ajit Pai told the Senate Wednesday the FCC remains confident that its freeing up of 24 GHz spectrum in the recent auction will not threaten important weather data collection, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has suggested it could. That came in a Senate Commerce ...

Primetime Ratings: ‘AGT’ Down a Tick But Still Paces NBC

June 16, 2019

NBC won the Tuesday ratings derby, America’s Got Talent leading the network to a 1.3 in viewers 18-49, and a 7 share. That got by the 1.1/6 put up by ABC. America’s Got Talent did a 1.5 from 8 to 10 p.m. and Songland a 0.9. Both shows lost a tenth of a point from last week. ...