Broadcasting & Cable News

NBCU Joins Giant Spoon For Direct-to-Consumer Ad Program

November 18, 2018

NBCUniversal and marketing agency Giant Spoon are launching a program to help direct-to-consumer businesses access the premium video advertising market. The Direct To Scale Program will help the growing number of businesses looking to sell their products via the internet create TV campaigns by ...

Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins Despite Deep Drop For ‘CMAs’

November 18, 2018

ABC got the top score in Wednesday’s ratings, as the CMA Awards led the net to a 2.1 in viewers 18-49, and a 9 share. In second was Fox at 1.3/5. The 52nd annual CMA Awards took up all of prime on ABC. Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood hosted the country event from the Bridgestone Arena in ...

FCC Approves New Constellations of Broadband Satellites

November 18, 2018

The FCC voted unanimously Thursday to promote more competition for broadband access by approving the requests of four companies to access the U.S. market with satellite-delivered services. They are SpaceX, Kepler, Telesat Canada and LeoSat MA, all seeking to deploy constellations of ...

FCC Approves Email Delivery of Cable Notices

November 18, 2018

Over some objection from lone Democrat commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, the FCC has voted to approve a Report and Order that allows cable operators to provide more information to their subs via email rather than in bills and other paper form. The FCC voted to allow cable ops to send to subs with ...

FCC's Pai Says He is Staying

November 18, 2018

FCC chair Ajit Pai says he has every intention of staying atop the FCC at least through the end of the President's first term. That came in a press conference following the FCC's monthly meeting Thursday (Nov. 15). He was asked whether he planned to stay chairman in the wake of the boosted ...

More than 25 Films at Austin Film Festival Created Using Blackmagic Design

November 18, 2018

Fremont, CA - November 15, 2018 - Blackmagic Design announced today that more than 25 feature length and short films competing at the 2018 Austin Film Festival used Blackmagic Design digital film cameras and DaVinci Resolve Studio professional editing, grading and audio post production software. ...

Disney Channel Orders Fourth Season of ‘Bunk’d’

November 18, 2018

Disney Channel has ordered a fourth season of comedy series Bunk’d. Production will begin on the new season in March. Phil Baker and Erin Dunlap will executive produce. Miranda May, Mallory James Mahoney, Raphael Alejandro and Will Buie Jr. are in the cast of Bunk’d. “On the heels of a successful ...

NBC to Air ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ Nov. 23

November 18, 2018

NBC will air the holiday special How the Grinch Stole Christmas, about a saturnine cave-dweller with a heart that’s a couple sizes too small, Friday, Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. Dreamworks Trolls Holiday will follow. NBC will also show The Grinch Christmas night. Other holiday programming on the network ...

Roy Clark Dead at 85

November 18, 2018

Roy Clark, 85, the country music Hall of Famer and Hee Haw star died Thursday (Nov. 15) of complications from pneumonia at his home in Tulsa, Okla. Clark was a popular TV musician and comedian, including a memorable rendition of Malaguena on the Odd Couple in the 1970s and countless TV variety show ...