Broadcasting & Cable News

Farm Aid & AXS TV Partner to Broadcast & Stream 'At Home With Farm Aid' on Saturday, April 11 at 8 pm ET

April 12, 2020

Farm Aid, the non-profit organization whose mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America, and AXS TV, the premier U.S. cable channel for music programming, presents a special broadcast of At Home With Farm Aid, featuring performances by acclaimed artists and ...

AMC Networks’ Streaming Service Sundance Now Acquires U.S. Rights to Sexy New Australian Drama Bad Mothers from Red Arrow Studios International

April 12, 2020

“A twisty murder mystery and superb cast…this is immediately addictive viewing” – The Sydney Morning Herald New York, NY; April 8, 2020 - AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now acquires U.S. rights to the sexy eight-part drama Bad Mothers from international distributor Red Arrow Studios ...

Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ Surpassed ‘Stranger Things’ with Over 34M Viewers, Nielsen said

April 12, 2020

The Netflix documentary series Tiger King generated 34.3 million unique viewers in the U.S. during its first 10 days on the service, from March 20-29, according to Nielsen, making it one of the most popular original shows on the No. 1 streaming platform ever. The performance even surpassed the ...

VOD Usage Jumped in March, Comscore Says

April 12, 2020

People staying home to stop the spread of the coronavirus ordered 29.8% more video on demand titles during March compared to a year ago, according to Comscore. In addition to viewers spending more time in front of the TV, Comscore noted that with theaters closed, many studios made more first-run ...

PBS Offers Tall Drink of Binge-Watching

April 12, 2020

With the 50th anniversary of Earth Day coming up, PBS has a way for sheltering-at-home binge-watchers to get their green on. On April 22 (Earth Day), the noncommercial network is premiering a new documentary, H20: The Molecule That Made Us, described as a podcast-style documentary on why ...

WHDH Boston Upgrades its Broadcast Operations with Solid State Logic System T

April 12, 2020

Boston, Massachusetts, April 2020 — Sunbeam-owned WHDH Boston has installed Solid State Logic’s latest generation of dedicated broadcast audio production system at its facility, replacing an SSL C100 console that had been in continuous operation for nearly 14 years. The new System T comprises a ...

Adapt & Overcome: Digigram’s IQYOA X/LINK-LE Codec Offers Musicians Professional-Quality Audio While Broadcasting at Home

April 12, 2020

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 7, 2020 — As more and more artists are taking to social media to broadcast live performances to their fans, poor audio abounds. Enter Digigram’s IQOYA X/LINK-LE: a 1U rack IP audio codec designed for live remote broadcasting over IP networks, including web radio. ...

Epix to Premiere Manson Series ‘Helter Skelter’ June 14

April 12, 2020

Epix will premiere the docuseries Helter Skelter, about Charles Manson, June 14. Lesley Chilcott directs and executive produces. There are six parts. “Before the Menendez brothers, OJ, and Ted Bundy, there was the biggest story of murder and crime in the modern age,” said Epix. “Over 50 years have ...

Disney Plus Tops 50M Subscribers Worldwide

April 12, 2020

The Walt Disney Co. said that its streaming service Disney+ now has more than 50 million subscribers worldwide. The fast growth of Disney+, launched five months ago, is a ray of good news for Disney, whose theme-park business has been battered by the Coronavirus pandemic. The virus, which is ...