Broadcasting & Cable News

Roku and Amazon Even in U.S. OTT Market: Research Company

May 26, 2019

While Amazon’s boast of 34 million Fire TV active users last week positions the OTT platform as the biggest in the world, Roku and its 29.1 million active users remain on par with Amazon in the U.S. “It is important to recognize that Amazon aggressively sells Fire TV boxes and sticks ...

HGTV Gives ‘Christina on the Coast’ TV’s Biggest Promo Push

May 26, 2019

B&C has partnered with 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 (our data covers the ...

Rebuffering Video Once Costs Streamers $85K: Akamai

May 26, 2019

As video shifts from broadcast to streaming, maintaining a TV-like experience in terms of picture and audio quality has a big impact on revenue and shouldn’t be overlooked, according to a new whitepaper from Akamai. Viewers increasingly expect video delivered over IP to be as reliable as ...

Former Turner CEO Martin Joins Board of Comscore

May 26, 2019

Troubled measurement company Comscore said former Turner CEO John Martin has joined its board of directors. Comscore, once seen as a potential competitor to industry leader Nielsen, has been struggling since accounting issues were discovered in its financial statements three years ago. That led to ...

TSL’s New SAM-Q Audio Monitoring Platform Makes Asia-Pacific Debut at BroadcastAsia 2019

May 26, 2019

SINGAPORE, May 23, 2019 – TSL Products, a leading designer and manufacturer of broadcast workflow solutions, presents its new SAM-Q audio monitoring platform to the Asia-Pacific region at this year’s BroadcastAsia Show (Level 6, Stand 6J3-01). In addition, TSL will be presenting its full-suite of ...

POTUS Fight Threatens Rural Broadband Bucks

May 26, 2019

The $40 billion in funding in the Democrats' LIFT America Act infrastructure bill could be at risk in the showdown with President Donald Trump over the Mueller report and ongoing Democratic led investigations into whether the President obstructed justice, an impeachable offense. The President ...

FreeWheel Names Kalita CTO for Blockgraph Initiative

May 26, 2019

Comcast’s FreeWheel said it named Utpal Kalita as VP, engineering and chief technology officer for Blockgraph, which Comcast is trying to get the industry to adopt as a secure way to use data and share information for advanced TV advertising. Kalita most recently had been chief technology ...

Bunny Ears Redux?

May 26, 2019

When cable TV came onto the scene, the question of the day was, “Who will pay for TV when TV is free?” The answer, as we all know by now, was most people. And most people were willing to pay because the promise of the day was that cable TV would provide a better, more reliable picture without ...

Point Source Audio Demos Dual Element Microphones for AV Pros at InfoComm 2019

May 26, 2019

Petaluma, CA – Point Source Audio (PSA), will be displaying their patent-pending CO2 Confidence Collection, a new class of built-in redundant microphones, at this year’s Infocomm trade show being held June 12-14 in Orlando, FL. The CO2 Confidence Collection all have dual elements, each measuring ...