Broadcasting & Cable News

Google TV Campaign Shows Ways Tech ‘Helps’

March 31, 2019

Google is turning to TV during two big events--the opening of the Major League Baseball season and March Madness’ Sweet Sixteen--to launch a new campaign showing how the digital giant makes people’s lives a little easier. The first commercial, Here to Help makes its debut Thursday. The 60-second ...

SERIES MANIA FORUM, THE INDUSTRY ARM OF THE FESTIVAL, ANNOUNCES FINAL NUMBERS AND SNAPSHOT OF THE EVENT

March 31, 2019

LILLE, FRANCE – March 28, 2019 – With the Series Mania Festival set with its closing night ceremony for Saturday, March 30, Ms. Laurence Herszberg, founder and general director of Series Mania, announced today the final closing number of 2700 participants and key highlights from the Series Mania ...

HUD Charges Facebook Ad Platform with Discrimination

March 31, 2019

Add the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the list of those who have issues with Google. HUD Thursday said it is charging Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by "encouraging, enabling, and causing housing discrimination through the company’s advertising platform." That came ...

Pebble Beach Systems Announces Financial Results for 2018

March 31, 2019

Weybridge, UK, March 28, 2019 – Pebble Beach Systems, a leading automation, content management and integrated channel specialist, released a highly positive set of results for 2018 today. The company reported a material increase of 3% in gross margin compared to 2017’s figures, and succeeded in ...

Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With ‘Chicago’ Shows

March 31, 2019

NBC got the Wednesday title in primetime ratings, its Chicago shows leading to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That topped the 1.0/5 that both CBS and Fox scored. NBC had Chicago Med at 1.2 and Chicago Fire at 1.2, then Chicago P.D. at 1.1. All three were flat. ...

Dalet Introduces Game-Changing Remote Editing Framework at NAB 2019

March 31, 2019

New York, NY – March 28, 2019 – Dalet, a leading provider of solutions and services for broadcasters and content professionals, will showcase its new Dalet Remote Editing framework at NAB 2019 (booth SL6610). The highly scalable framework brings the full-featured multimedia editing capabilities and ...

Costa to Run Bahakel Alabama Stations

March 31, 2019

Mike Costa has been named VP and general manager of Bahakel Communications Alabama TV stations WAKA Selma (CBS), WNCF Montgomery (ABC) and WBMM Tuskegee (CW). Costa had most recently run Sinclair Broadcasting stations WTVC (Fox on its dot one channel and ABC on its dot two subchannel) and WFLI (CW) ...

Epix Now Streaming Service on Roku, Amazon Fire TV

March 31, 2019

Epix’s streaming service, Epix Now, is available on Roku devices and Amazon Fire TV. Epix Now, which launched earlier this year, offers the network’s full library of original programming, movies and other content for $5.99 a month. MGM owns Epix. “Today’s announcement is part of an ongoing rollout ...

Connected TV Impressions Growing, Says Innovid Study

March 31, 2019

In its latest Global Video Benchmark study, advertising platform Innovid found that connected TVs continues to gain in viewership and advertising usage. Connected TV accounted for 28% of the digital video ad impressions on the Innovid platform in 2018, up from 17% last year. Innovid said that 68% ...