Broadcasting & Cable News

Pliant® Technologies Showcases Latest Updates for CrewCom® Wireless Intercom System at ISE 2019

January 20, 2019

AMSTERDAM, JANUARY 17, 2019 - Pliant Technologies' latest updates to its CrewCom wireless intercom system will be on display for the first time internationally at ISE 2019 (Booth 7-V228). The newest firmware incorporates general system improvements as well as new Oceania 900MHz models. Pliant will ...

WOWOW ACQUIRES EXCLUSIVE JAPAN PAY TV AND STREAMING RIGHTS TO UEFA EURO 2020 FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

January 20, 2019

WOWOW, Japan’s leading premium pay TV broadcaster, has acquired the exclusive streaming and pay TV rights to broadcast the UEFA EURO 2020 football tournament across Japan. Starting with the opening match on June 12, 2020, WOWOW will broadcast live all 51 matches, leading up to the final on July 12. ...

Primetime Ratings: ‘Masked Singer’ Stays Strong, Paces Fox

January 20, 2019

Fox got top spot in Wednesday’s ratings, with The Masked Singer pacing the net to a 1.6 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 7 share. That beat the 1.1/5 that NBC tallied. Fox had Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back at 1.0 before The Masked Singer did a 2.2, both programs down ...

Epix Grabs ‘Laurel Canyon’ Documentary

January 20, 2019

Epix has greenlit the feature-length documentary Laurel Canyon, which the network said “will pull back the curtain on a mythical world and provide an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited it.” It will premiere late in 2019. The film celebrates the music of Joni Mitchell, Jackson ...

FCC Spectrum Auction Gets Pumped

January 20, 2019

The FCC has apparently pumped new life into the 28 GHz spectrum auction. The first round after it moved to stage three Jan. 15, with bidders required to bid on eligible licenses unless they had a waiver—produced $0 in new bidding money. But since then it has seen a dozen rounds of six-figure ...

BITMAX MOVES GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS TO THE HEART OF HOLLYWOOD MEDIA DISTRICT

January 20, 2019

Los Angeles, January 17, 2018: Bitmax, the digital media content mangement and licensing company, has signed the lease on its new headquarters in Hollywood's Media District creative office campus. The new office and enhanced digital processing facility was designed with the latest technology ...

Public Knowledge Pans Privacy Bill

January 20, 2019

Public Knowledge, which is all for strong privacy laws, wants to make sure state attempts to do so aren't foreclosed by federal legislation. Reacting to Sen. Marco Rubio's introduction this week of the American Data Dissemination (ADD) Act, the group said Thursday (Jan. 17) that it was an ...

Veteran TV Sales, Management Executive Bob Klingle Dies

January 20, 2019

Bob Klingle, 62, veteran TV sales and management executive, died of prostate cancer Jan. 14 in Scotttsdale, Ariz., according to WHAS-TV Louisville, Ky., where Klingle was general manager from 2000 to 2007, and information supplied by his family. Klingle began his career with ad agency ...

Netflix Reports Lower Earnings for 4th Quarter

January 20, 2019

Despite growth in subscribers, Netflix reported lower fourth quarter earnings, but forecast that profit margins would grow next year. Global subscribers rose 26% to 139.26 million from 110.64 million a year. It added a record 8.84 subscribers since third quarter, including 1.5% in the U.S. Netflix ...