Broadcasting & Cable News

House Vetting Tech Diversity, or Lack of It

February 10, 2019

The House Consumer Protection Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on "Diversity and Inclusion in Tech." Silicon Valley has long been under scrutiny over the dearth of various minority populations in its workforce and the impact of its algorithms on those populations “People of color, women, and ...

GOP House Members Offer Trio of Net Neutrality Bills

February 10, 2019

Republicans signaled Thursday (Feb. 7) that they are offering up at least three versions of legislation that would reimpose network neutrality rules, but without doing so under Title II common carrier regs they argue are a relic of the monopoly (dial-less, black) phone based Title II common carrier ...

Facebook Faces Yet Another Demand From Hill

February 10, 2019

Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are demanding answers from Facebook on its research project that incentivized teens and others to give up info (Project Atlas) and calling on Apple and Google to "do more to protect their customers from intrusive ...

Rep. John Dingell Dies

February 10, 2019

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the longest serving House member at his retirement in 2014 and a long-time supporter of local broadcasting, has died. He was 92. He was first elected to the House in 1955, but had been a page in 1937. His father was also a member of Congress. The President said ...

An Old Mansion’s Darkest Secrets are Exposed February in Ultra Macho

February 10, 2019

West Palm Beach, FL – February 7, 2019 – February is fright month in Ultra Macho with the premier of an edge-of-your-seat French miniseries about a house that is alive and very sensitive about being mistreated. This launch continues to solidify the channel’s position as the one and only destination ...

NBCU Guarantees Butts in Seats for Movie Studio

February 10, 2019

NBCUniversal, looking to make more changes in the traditional TV advertising model of selling eyeballs, said it guaranteed the STXfilms movie studio its commercials would sell movie tickets and delivered, using data to put butts in theater seats. Networks have been raising the curtain on ways to ...

‘Today’ Anchor Craig Melvin to Host Golden Mike Awards

February 10, 2019

Craig Melvin, news anchor of NBC morning show Today and anchor at MSNBC, will host the Broadcasters Foundation of America’s 2019 Golden Mike gala. Perry Sook, Nexstar Media Group chairman/president/CEO, gets the award. The event happens March 6 at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Country duo Sugarland, ...

Free State Offers All-Star Policy Lineup

February 10, 2019

The Free State Foundation has lined up a regulatory all-star cast for its Eleventh Annual Telecom Policy conference in Washington March 26. The list of speakers now includes major players in the search for more 5G spectrum, the regulation of the internet, oversight of mergers, and communications ...

12M More Viewers Saw Super Bowl Out of Home

February 10, 2019

An estimated 12 million people watched Super Bowl LIII on Sunday in out-of-home locations, according to Nielsen. The additional viewing in bars, hotels, health clubs and other locations measured by Nielsen, brings the total viewership for the game to 112.7 million. Last year's Super Bowl also ...