Broadcasting & Cable News

Beachfront Announces New Set-Top Box VOD Programmatic Advertising Capability For MVPDs

April 21, 2019

NEW YORK – April 18, 2019 – Beachfront today announced its new MVPD-side technology stack to monetize set-top-box VOD inventory, becoming the de facto programmatic video advertising platform for multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs). Beachfront streamlines VOD and OTT advertising, ...

4K 4Charity Races Past $1 Million Mark At 2019 NAB Show

April 21, 2019

Portland, Ore. – April 18, 2019 – Elemental Technologies LLC (AWS Elemental), an Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) company, today announced the 4K 4Charity Fun Run held at the 2019 NAB Show raised more than $68,000 for Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization working to close the ...

Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With Sturdy ‘Survivor’

April 21, 2019

CBS got top spot in Wednesday’s ratings, Survivor leading the net to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. In second was Fox at 1.0/5. Fox won the race the Wednesday before. Survivor did its usual 1.5, the episode featuring two tribal councils and a veteran of a ...

Mueller Report: Not Enough Evidence to Prosecute Trump, Campaign

April 21, 2019

The Mueller report is out and it is clear that it does not exonerate President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice, instead punting on that "traditional prosecutorial judgment," which was then made by Attorney General Bill Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. That is the report of ...

Kevin Hunter Out as Executive Producer of 'Wendy Williams'

April 21, 2019

In light of his divorce from Wendy Williams, Kevin Hunter is exiting as executive producer of her eponymous daytime talker, The Wendy Williams Show. He had been serving as her business manager and had been with the show since it first launched in 2008. Williams confirmed last week that she was ...

Media Bureau Makes Staff Moves

April 21, 2019

The FCC's Media Bureau has upped one official and added a second. Bureau chief Michelle Carey said Thursday (April 18) that associate bureau chief Holly Saurer has been named deputy bureau chief and Paul Jackson has joined the bureau as associate bureau chief. Suarer is a long-time FCC vet, ...

Fox Orders Another Season of ‘Last Man Standing’

April 21, 2019

Fox has renewed the comedy Last Man Standing for 2019-2020. Tim Allen stars in the show. Next season will be Last Man’s second on Fox, after six on ABC. The show has averaged more than 11 million multiplatform viewers, according to Fox. Besides Allen, the cast includes Hector Elizondo, ...

Mueller Report: Sanders Concedes Misleading Press on One Comey Firing Defense

April 21, 2019

A White House that has often branded mainstream media as fake news, particularly in its reporting on the Mueller investigation into Russia election meddling, was apparently providing some fake, or at least misleading, comments on some real news. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told ...

Fox Cancels Comedy ‘Rel,’ Drama ‘The Gifted’

April 21, 2019

Fox has canceled the first-year comedy Rel and the sophomore drama The Gifted. Rel debuted Sept. 30, a multi-camera comedy from 20th Century Fox Television. It was about comedian Lil Rel’s life on the south side of Chicago. Mike Scully was the showrunner. The Gifted came from 20th Century Fox ...