Broadcasting & Cable News

Cartoon Network, Pilot Pen Expand Anti-Bullying Effort

May 05, 2019

Pilot Corp. of America has signed on to Cartoon Network’s anti-bullying campaign for two years. As part of the Stop Bullying: Speak Up initiative Cartoon Network and Pilot Pen are distributing 500 bookmaking kits to classrooms and educators nationwide and asking students to write stories about how ...

Judiciary Chair: Trump Administration Actions Endanger Constitution

May 05, 2019

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) left no doubt what he thought about President Donald Trump's response to the Mueller report and Attorney General Bill Barr's response--which was "no"--to the committee's subpoena for the unredacted report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ...

Survey: Fox News References Abound in Trump's Mueller Tweets

May 05, 2019

Fox News is President Donald Trump's go-to source for news media references in his recent tweets on special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election meddling. That is according to a content analysis by nonprofit Media Matters for America, which is apparently no fan of either Fox or the ...

Court TV Adds Distribution as it Nears May 8 Launch

May 05, 2019

The new Court TV said it struck a number of new distribution agreements with broadcasters, cable operators and streaming platforms ahead of its May 8 launch. Katz Networks, the division of the E.W. Scripps Co. that is reviving court TV, said it made deals with more than a dozen mid-sized cable ...

Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Hearty ‘Billboard Awards’

May 05, 2019

NBC was the big winner in Wednesday ratings, as the 2019 Billboard Music Awards led the network to a 2.1 in viewers 18-49, according to the Nielsen overnights, and a 10 share. That topped the 1.0/5s that both CBS and Fox posted. The Billboard Awards took up all of prime. The telecast also did a 2.1 ...

CPJ: Venezuela Must Stop Blocking Internet Access

May 05, 2019

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Venezuela to stop restricting access to the internet, including social media and news outlets. The country is in the midst of social unrest and widespread protests targeting current President Nicolás Maduro. According to NetBlocks, which monitors ...

Trump Issues Cybersecurity Workforce Executive Order

May 05, 2019

President Donald Trump Thursday (May 2) issued an executive order meant to boost the government cybersecurity workforce, standardize and incentivize cybersecurity education, and get everyone on the same cyber page with a common cybersecurity "language." According to senior administration officials ...

Fox Slates Gillibrand Town Hall

May 05, 2019

The Democratic National Committee may have barred Fox from hosting debates among Democratic presidential candidates, but that hasn't stopped the network from snagging those candidates for a series of town hall meetings on the network. According to the network's president, Jay Wallace, it has lined ...

PEN America: U.S. is Most in Need of Press Freedom

May 05, 2019

PEN America, which advocates for free speech and human rights, is for the first time focusing its World Press Freedom Day (May 3) efforts on the a specific part of the world--the U.S., which it calls "now on the list of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists." “Press freedom is ...