Broadcasting & Cable News

FCC Funded Through Jan. 3 as Shutdown Begins

December 23, 2018

The partial government shutdown began at midnight Friday (Dec. 21) after the Congress failed to agree on an appropriations bill or a stop-gap funding measure. Congress planned to hold Saturday sessions as the White House and legislators continued to talk after President Donald Trump refused to sign ...

Moody’s Stays Positive on Cable for 2019

December 16, 2018

Moody’s Investors Service said its outlook for pay TV in 2019 is “positive,” with broadband demand and margin growth expected to outpace video subscriber losses. “Growing broadband demand will drive more than 4% EBITDA growth among U.S. pay TV providers over the next 12 to 18 months, despite ...

TV Dominates Trending Topics on Twitter: VAB

December 16, 2018

If you think what’s talked about on Twitter is significant, then what happens on TV is important. In a new #TVisSocial report, the Video Advertising Bureau, which represents many of the big TV networks and distributors, says that TV shows and other televised events dominate the topics that trend on ...

Dish, Sling Join Comscore Campaign Ratings Trial

December 16, 2018

Dish Media is joining the trial of the beta version of Comscore’s Campaign Ratings. Dish’s Dish Network and Sling TV are the first multichannel video programming distributors to join the test of Comscore Campaign Ratings, which aim to measure the audiences for video ads across platforms. Related: ...

Discovery Expands GolfTV With European Tour Deal

December 16, 2018

Discovery has made a new deal with the European Tour that will expand its new GolfTV streaming business. With the agreement, GolfTV will carry more than 40 European Tour events per year in some European territories starting in January. GolfTV gets multi-platrights to show those events live in some ...

WaPo Digital Arm Getting Into Broadcast Business

December 16, 2018

The Washington Post is getting back into the broadcast business. No, it is not buying stations now that the FCC has repealed the newspaper-broadcast crossownership rule, at least not at the moment. The broadcaster involved is Raycom Media and the news is that the Post's Arc Publishing ...

Wide Industry Support for Digital Supply Chain Specifications

December 16, 2018

Los Angeles, December 13, 2018 -- DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) and Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs), together with member studios, retailers, and service providers, have approved and released four updated supply chain ...

More than 55 of the 2018 Fall Television and Streaming Series Rely on Blackmagic Design

December 16, 2018

Fremont, CA - December 13, 2018 - Blackmagic Design today announced that the company’s production and post products are being used to complete many of the fall 2018 season’s new and returning television shows and streaming series. More than 55 shows rely on Blackmagic Design’s digital film cameras; ...

Netflix Celebrates New Year’s Eve With Taylor Swift

December 16, 2018

Netflix will stream the final show of the U.S. leg of Taylor Swift’s 'Reputation' Stadium Tour on New Year’s Eve. The concert film “features pyro, fireworks, multiple stages and of course, a 63-foot cobra named Karyn,” according to Netflix. The stream goes live at 12:01 PT on Dec. 31st. Camila ...