Broadcasting & Cable News

HBO's '2 Dope Queens' Specials to Return in February

January 13, 2019

HBO will air an additional four comedy specials from Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson in February, the network said Wednesday. The 2 Dope Queens specials, which launched on HBO last year and are based off of the podcast of the same name, will feature such guest stars as Lupita Nyong'o (Black ...

CES: Turner’s Levy Says Sports Bubble Won’t Burst

January 13, 2019

David Levy, president of Turner, said sports on TV is strong and getting stronger, bolstered by the legalization of gambling. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Levy said while some have predicted that the rising costs of sports rights has created a bubble, “I don’t think it’s ...

DPA Microphones Appoints A New Distributor in the Philippines

January 13, 2019

DPA Microphones is pleased to announce the appointment of Music & Audio Solutions & Services as its new distributor in the Philippines, with immediate effect and across all markets including live sound, House of Worship, broadcast, pro audio, film and theatre. Founded in 2007, Music & ...

Sen. Rubio Pushes For More Small Biz Input on Regs

January 13, 2019

Looks like small cable operators will have a friend in new Small Business Committee chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). His first act as chairman was to introduce a quintet of bills to boost small businesses and give them a bigger role in their regulatory future. The American Cable Association's principal ...

Nexstar Makes Deal With Comscore for Local Ratings

January 13, 2019

Giant station group Nexstar has signed a multi-year agreement with Comscore. Under the agreement Comscore will provide measurement and ad sales currency for all Nexstar markets, including the stations recently acquired from Media General. Comscore also recently announced a deal to provide local ...

‘Brooklyn’ Settles in to New Home

January 13, 2019

Season six of Brooklyn Nine-Nine starts on NBC Thursday, after five seasons on Fox. It’s been a wild ride for the cop comedy, which had been canceled by Fox in May, and was grabbed a few days later by NBC. Co-creator Dan Goor told B&C he was “pretty shocked and depressed” by the cancellation, ...

EditShare Appoints Sundeep Menon to Sales Director South Asia

January 13, 2019

Basingstoke, UK — January 10, 2019 - EditShare a technology leader in intelligent scale-out storage, AQC and media management solutions, announced today that business development expert Sundeep Menon has joined EditShare as the Sales Director for South East Asia. A skilled media enterprise ...

FCC Spectrum Auction Picks Up Some More Steam

January 13, 2019

The 28 GHz auction has kicked back into gear with almost 50 new bids and the largest round-by-round increase in provisional winning bids--$423,800--since round 70 back on Dec. 14. The FCC this week shortened the duration and increased the frequency of rounds--appropriate for an auction of ...

Hulu Goes In-House to Offer Ad Attribution

January 13, 2019

Hulu said it has developed an in-house system to help its advertisers measure the results of the campaigns they run on the streaming service. Attribution has become a big issue in the TV business as networks compete against digital platforms that claim to provide precise data about who sees ...