Broadcasting & Cable News

Broadpeak Products at Android TV Summit

November 11, 2018

Available on connected TVs and set-top boxes (STBs), the Android TV operating system has become a critical component for delivering multiscreen video. Now that multicast ABR technology is able to solve scalability and latency issues, video delivery across all screens, including the main screen, can ...

Comcast’s X1 Launches Bounce’s Brown Sugar Streaming Service

November 11, 2018

Comcast has agreed to offer Bounce’s subscription streaming service Brown Sugar to Xfinity cable subscribers via its X1 system. The over the top service costs $3.99 a month and features a collection of African-American movies and on-demand access to Bounce’s original series and boxing events. X1 ...

‘Fixer Upper’ Couple Forming New Network with Discovery

November 11, 2018

Chip and Joanna Gaines, who ended their popular HGTV home renovation series Fixer Upper last year to spend more time with their family, are starting a new TV network with Discovery. The couple went on the Today Show Friday night to announced their return to TV and new business venture. “We’re ...

TV Data Summit: Watching Audience Measurement Evolve

November 04, 2018

New York — Television audience measurement is evolving beyond the Nielsen panel and age-and-gender breakdowns of who’s watching what, partly by Nielsen’s own advances, partly by what other measurement firms have contributed and partly by what newer delivery mechanisms like over-the-top providers ...

Dolby Vision Facility Certification Awarded to Pixelogic

November 04, 2018

Pixelogic, the innovative and fully integrated provider of localization and distribution services, has earned Dolby Vision™ Facility Certification. Pixelogic is also the first independent service provider to offer encoding services for Dolby Vision content destined for OTT platforms. The Dolby ...

TV Data Summit: Turner Experimenting With 5-Minute ‘Origin Stories’ for Advertisers

November 04, 2018

New York — Attempting to rethink the way it connects advertising with its viewers, Turner Networks is exploring the creation of five-minute-long branded “origin stories” that would run in the middle of a program. The concept was cooked up by Turner Ignite, the branded content studio set up last ...

TV Data Summit: In the ACR Age, Data Scientist Role No Longer Baloney, Panel Says

November 04, 2018

New York — “It’s kind of a BS term,” said Haile Owusu, discussing his “data scientist” title at Turner Networks at a morning TV Data Summit panel Wednesday. Owusu largely had his tongue in cheek. “There’s a challenge in combining these data sets to tell a coherent picture of a [viewer],” said ...

Z Living to Shut Down Linear Channel in January

November 04, 2018

Health and entertainment lifestyle channel Z Living will shut down its linear channel in the U.S. on Jan. 31 to focus mainly on digital offerings, a spokesperson for the network told Multichannel News. Z Living is owned by Mumbai, India-based media conglomerate Zee Entertainment. Rajeev Kheror, who ...

Charter Names Franz to Head Development and Production at Spectrum Originals

November 04, 2018

Charter Communications said it has tapped industry veteran Julia Franz as head of development and production at Spectrum Originals, the cable operator’s original content arm. Franz will be based in Los Angeles and will report to Katherine Pope, who was named head of original content in January. In ...