Broadcasting & Cable News

WEDU PBS Appoints Paul Grove as New President & CEO

March 31, 2019

Tampa Bay, FL – WEDU PBS has named Paul Grove as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective June 10, 2019. Grove is joining WEDU from WTCI PBS in Chattanooga, where he has served as President and CEO for thirteen years. WEDU’s board of directors selected Grove after conducting a ...

NAB Lines Up FCC Majority

March 31, 2019

The National Association of Broadcasters has lined up four of the five FCC commissioners, including the chairman, for its upcoming Las Vegas show. From the TV station repack to C-Band spectrum decisions to ATSXC 3.0 to proposed kids TV rule changes and other potential media deregulation, ...

Primetime Ratings: ‘This Is Us’ Down But NBC Still Prevails

March 31, 2019

NBC won the Tuesday ratings race, with This Is Us leading to a 1.2 for the network in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That topped the 0.9/4 that CBS got. Ellen’s Game of Games got a flat 1.2 on NBC and This Is Us, depicting Randall and Beth’s first date decades before and ...

FCC Auction Tops $1.5 Billion

March 31, 2019

The FCC's 24 GHz spectrum auction has pushed past $1.5 billion in bids, more than double the take from the previous, 28 GHz auction. Both are meant to free up spectrum for 5G. The 24 GHz (high-band, millimeter wave) auction comprises 2,909 licenses divided up by partial economic areas. After round ...

AWS Launches an Open API Specification to Simplify Encryption for Live and On-demand Media Workflows

March 31, 2019

Portland, Oregon, USA – March 27, 2019 – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the Secure Packager and Encoder Key Exchange (SPEKE), an open, extensible API specification developed to streamline integration of Digital Rights Management (DRM) with encoders, ...

PRONOLOGY PRESENTS RUGGEDIZED NAS SOLUTION AT NAB 2019

March 31, 2019

LAS VEGAS, March 27, 2019 — Pronology, a developer of cutting-edge tapeless workflow solutions, introduces rNAS.m3, a ruggedized, high performance Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution, at NAB 2019 (Booth SL8405). rNAS.m3 allows productions to acquire and transport broadcast media assets, built ...

CEntrance Simplifies Mobile Content Creation

March 31, 2019

Las Vegas, NV —NAB — March 27, 2019 — At the National Association of Broadcasters show (NAB – April 6-11) CEntrance will debut new ways of creating professional audio content for Video, Podcasting, ENG, and live streaming, with the new MixerFace and MicPort Pro portable devices. MixerFace is a ...

VISLINK RECEIVES $1.5 MILLION ORDER FOR HCAM 4K UHD SYSTEMS FOR DEPLOYMENT IN ASIA

March 31, 2019

HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, MARCH 27, 2019 — Vislink, whose brands are recognized as the global leaders in live video communications, today announced it has received an order valued at approximately $1.5 million for multiple HCAM 4K UHD wireless camera systems for deployment in Asia. For over 50 years, ...

HBO to Air ‘Game of Thrones’ Documentary After Series Finale

March 31, 2019

HBO will air the documentary Game of Thrones: The Last Watch May 26, one week after Game of Thrones ends. Jeanie Finlay directs the film, which “delves deep into the mud and blood to reveal the tears and triumphs involved in the challenge of bringing the fantasy world of Westeros to life in the ...