Broadcasting & Cable News

Primetime Ratings: Curious Pearson Kids Lead NBC to Win

January 27, 2019

NBC won big in the Tuesday prime ratings, as This Is Us led the net to a 1.5 in viewers 18-49, and a 7 share. In second was CBS at 1.0/4. Ellen’s Game of Games did a 1.6 and This Is Us, with the Pearson siblings paying a visit to their father’s long lost, definitely not deceased brother, scoring a ...

USA Renews ‘Suits’ For Ninth and Final Season

January 27, 2019

USA Network has renewed lawyer drama Suits for a ninth season comprised of ten episodes. That will represent the final season of the Aaron Korsh drama. Suits premiered in 2011. "Suits has played an instrumental role in our network’s DNA for nearly a decade,” said Chris McCumber, president, USA ...

NCTA: Government Spectrum Strategy Should be Balanced

January 27, 2019

NCTA-The Internet & Television Association said the Trump Administration's National Spectrum Strategy should recognize that WiFi is the primary delivery mechanism for broadband and promote additional unlicensed spectrum and critical to any spectrum strategy. It also says the framework should ...

Trump to Pelosi: I'm Delivering SOTU as Planned; Pelosi Says 'No Way'

January 27, 2019

President Donald Trump has signaled he plans to deliver his nationally televised State of the Union (SOTU) address Jan. 29, but the Speaker had something to say about that. That came in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who had suggested he might want to delay the speech citing the ...

‘Fosse/Verdon’ Limited Series Starts on FX April 9

January 27, 2019

FX limited series Fosse/Verdon, about the romantic and creative partnership shared by Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, starts April 9. There are eight episodes. The series comes from producers Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Joel Fields. Production on the series is underway in New ...

BYUtv Grades More than 100 Shows and 500 Promos Per Month Using DaVinci Resolve Studio

January 27, 2019

Fremont, CA - January 23, 2019 - Blackmagic Design today announced BYUtv, part of Brigham Young University, one of the world’s largest college broadcasters, is using DaVinci Resolve Studio and DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel and Resolve Mini Panels for color correcting and grading an average of 150 ...

Discovery Hires Saxena as DTC Chief Technology Officer

January 27, 2019

Discovery said it hired Amazon executive Avi Saxena as chief technology for its direct-to-consumer business. Saxena had been VP of technology for Amazon Marketplace. He’s report to Peter Faricy, who joined Discovery as CEO of the global direct-to-consumer business in August and was Saxena’s boss at ...

Fox Nation’s Sean Hannity Program Starts Jan. 30

January 27, 2019

Fox Nation, the new subscription streaming service from Fox News, debuts the Sean Hannity weekday show Hannity On Air Jan. 30. Hannity On Air will feature a livestream of Sean Hannity’s monologue from his radio program The Sean Hannity Show. The program, shot at Hannity’s radio studio in New York, ...

AP Freelance Photojournalist Mohamed Ben Khalifa Killed

January 27, 2019

Freelance photojournalist Mohamed Ben Khalifa was killed while covering strife in Tripoli Jan. 19, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists citing various sources including the Associated Press and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya. Ben Khalifa was killed by shrapnel from shell, ...