Broadcasting & Cable News

DOJ Gets Going-Over in AT&T-TW Oral Argument

December 09, 2018

Judges probing arguments for and against the AT&T-Time Warner merger hammered the Department of Justice's argument that a lower court judge exhibited clear error in allowing the deal to go through and rejecting the government's economic analysis that the combined company would use its leverage ...

Round 43 in 28 GHz Auction is Big One

December 09, 2018

In the first round of the FCCs stage-two effort to speed the 28 GHz auction the prompting appeared to work, though the action the FCC spurred included the withdrawal of 13 bids. The auction had appeared to need some goosing. In the previous six rounds, only two additional licenses total had ...

Pebble Beach Systems appoints Andy Giles as Sales Manager for Europe, Israel and South Africa

December 09, 2018

Weybridge, UK, December 6 2018 –Pebble Beach Systems, a leading automation, content management and integrated channel specialist, today announced the appointment of Andy Giles as the company’s new Sales Manager for Europe, Israel and South Africa. An experienced industry professional with a strong ...

FCC's Pai Names New Administrative Law Judge

December 09, 2018

The FCC's lone administrative law judge (ALJ), Richard Sippel, retired effective Dec. 1. Some watchers of the fallout from the failed Sinclair-Tribune deal had wondered why there had been no word out of Sippel's office on the status of the FCC's reference of the deal to the ALJ for a hearing over ...

Research Now SSI and iSpot.tv Partner to Measure Ad Effectiveness at Unprecedented Scale

December 09, 2018

DALLAS, Dec. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Research Now SSI, a global leader in first-party data and data services, has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement and attribution analytics company, to help brands better understand advertising efficacy with unparalleled scale and accuracy. ...

AT&T’s New DirecTV Now Plan: ‘Thin Out’ Bundle, Reset Price Point to ‘$50-$60’

December 09, 2018

As it prepares to launch an IP-based video service that is more of a direct replacement to traditional satellite TV service in the first quarter of next year, AT&T will reconfigure and reposition its seminal streaming pay TV product, DirecTV Now. Speaking at the UBS Global Media and ...

Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, WWE Shows Top Weekly Social Content Ratings Charts

December 09, 2018

ABC’s The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Holiday Special drew the most social media buzz among television shows last week, according to Nielsen. The Victoria's Secret special drew 5.7 million combined Facebook, Instagram and Twitter interactions for the week of Nov. 26 to Dec. 2, according to ...

‘60 Minutes’ Founder Hewitt Caught in CBS Harass Net

December 09, 2018

The late Don Hewitt, the TV legend who created 60 Minutes, reportedly has been implicated in the sexual harassment scandal being investigated by lawyers hired by the board CBS. According to a copy of the investigators’ report obtained by the New York Times, CBS continues to pay a settlement to a ...

Measurement We Can Count On

December 09, 2018

"With CFlight, we took the best measurement available for linear and digital platforms and aligned them to unify the impressions. CFlight represents a major advancement for media measurement." -Kavita Vazirani, NBCUniversal A few weeks ago, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures—the ...