Broadcasting & Cable News

NBC and Telemundo Owned Stations Step Up Consumer Investigative Units

April 28, 2019

NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations is making a bigger bet on the NBC Responds/Telemundo Responde units that win back cash for viewers who feel they’ve been ripped off. Telemundo station WTMO Orlando launched a Responde consumer investigative unit April 11, and KTDO El Paso will launch one in ...

Season Three of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ on Hulu June 5

April 28, 2019

Season three of The Handmaid’s Tale begins on Hulu June 5. Three episodes debut that day, with ten to follow. The drama is based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. It won the Emmy for top drama in 2017. Season three is driven by June’s resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead and ...

Primetime Ratings: CBS, Fox, NBC Tie

April 28, 2019

CBS, Fox and NBC tied for the top spot in Wednesday ratings, all three posting a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat the 0.6/3 that Telemundo notched. On CBS, Survivor lost 7% for a 1.4 and The Amazing Race dropped 17% from its premiere to 1.0. SEAL Team did a ...

Final Season of ‘Wahlburgers’ Begins May 15 on A&E

April 28, 2019

A&E Network will premiere the tenth and final season of Wahlburgers beginning May 15. 44 Blue Productions produces the unscripted show, about brothers Mark, Donnie and Paul Wahlberg as they balance family and their rapidly growing restaurant business Their burger chain, Wahlburgers, began with ...

Dish, DirecTV Provide Hill Partial Answers on STELAR

April 28, 2019

Satellite operators have told the House Judiciary Committee that, for competitive reasons, they can't supply some of the information requested by its bipartisan leadership. The House Judiciary Committee is drilling down on the renewal--or not--of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act ...

FCC Preps 24 GHz Auction, Part II

April 28, 2019

The FCC is preparing to gear up for part two, the assignment phase, of its 24 GHz spectrum auction, which begins Friday, May 3. The clock phase of the auction ended April 17 with a total $1,988,888,836 bid for the spectrum over 91 rounds--2,909 licenses were available, 2,904 drew bids. The FCC is ...

New App for Riedel's 1200 Series SmartPanel Provides API for Third-Party Control, Monitoring, and Automation Systems

April 28, 2019

WUPPERTAL, Germany — April 25, 2019 — At the 2019 NAB Show, Riedel Communications previewed a new API, based on open NMOS standards, for its 1200 Series SmartPanel. This innovation will enable industry partners to utilize the SmartPanel as a user interface for their control, monitoring, and ...

VI Rental Replaces Entire Tripod Fleet with Sachtler flowtech100 Tripods

April 28, 2019

BURY ST. EDMUNDS, U.K. — April 25, 2019 — Sachtler today announced that VI Rental, the hire division of UK broadcast equipment provider Visual Impact, has made a major purchase of Sachtler's flowtech100 carbon-fibre tripods and Video 18 S2 fluid heads. In response to customer demand, VI Rental has ...

Ryan Gets Top Marketing Job at ABC and Disney TV Studios

April 28, 2019

Shannon Ryan has been named president of marketing for ABC Entertainment and Disney Television Studios. Ryan, who had been chief marketing officer of the Fox Television Group, will report to Karey Burke, president of ABC Entertainment and Craig Hunegs, president of Disney Television Studios. The ...