Broadcasting & Cable News

Reid Joining Comcast in General Counsel Post

March 03, 2019

Comcast Corp. said Thomas Reid will be joining the company as senior executive VP, general counsel and secretary, effective in April. Reid, who had been chairman and managing partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell, will report to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and be based at the company’s headquarters in ...

Laff to Launch 'According to Jim' in Access

March 03, 2019

Disney’s According to Jim will debut on diginet Laff on Monday, the network said Friday. It will air in two-hour blocks on weeknights from 5 to 7 p.m. According to Jim stars Jim Belushi as an easy-going Chicago suburbanite and Courtney Thorne-Smith as his wife, Cheryl. The couple has three ...

Primetime Ratings: ABC Finales Lead to Win

March 03, 2019

ABC got the top spot in Thursday ratings, with the How to Get Away With Murder finale leading the net to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 5 share. That beat the 0.8/4 posted by CBS. Grey’s Anatomy fell 6% to 1.6 and the season closer of A Million Little Things rated a flat ...

Sen. Cortez Masto Unveils Sweeping Privacy Bill

March 03, 2019

In the wake of House and Senate hearings this week on data privacy, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) has introduced the Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance Privacy (DATA Privacy) Act. The new bill is sweeping legislation that would not only attempt to simplify the privacy ...

ASCAP, BMI Propose Interim, Time-Limited Consent Decrees to DOJ

March 03, 2019

As the Justice Department ponders when, how and whether to lift consent decrees on how the major music licensing organizations can collect fees from broadcasters, cable operators and others, the aforementioned organizations have laid out a suggested road map for revision. Actually it is a plan for ...

Jeff Rosetti Named WTHR Indianapolis News Director

March 03, 2019

Jeff Rosetti has been named news director at WTHR Indianapolis. He had been assistant news director at the station since 2011. Dispatch Broadcast Group owns the station. Rosetti succeeds Kathy Hostetter, who is now news director at KDKA Pittsburgh. “Jeff has played a significant role in building ...

CBS Corporation and The Association Of National Advertisers’ #SEEHER Initiative To Honor and CelebrateWomen’s History Month With CBS Cares PSA Campaign

March 03, 2019

CBS Personalities Violett Beane, Eve, Sara Gilbert, Bianna Golodryga, Carrie Ann Inaba, Allison Janney, Gayle King, Téa Leoni, Patina Miller, Norah O’Donnell, Sharon Osbourne, Zoe Perry and Sheryl Underwood Honor Trailblazers in PSAs NEW YORK – March 1, 2019 – Once again this year, in honor and ...

Tune In to TV's Catch-Up Growth

March 03, 2019

Predictions about the future of TV abound — and with good reason. The average American spends early one-third of their waking hours watching TV, roughly five times more than all social media activity combined. Since leading media platforms operating at the scale and complexity of full economies ...

Miley Cyrus Lights Up ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Premiere

March 03, 2019

The eleventh season of RuPaul’s Drag Race got going on VH1 February 28, and a nifty group of guest judges take the stage this season. They include Miley Cyrus, who was on the premiere, Joel McHale, Lena Waithe, Wanda Sykes, Natasha Lyonne and Tony Hale. Cyrus “came in ready to play,” according to ...