Broadcasting & Cable News

ISPs Sue Vermont Over Net Neutrality Moves

October 21, 2018

Cable and telecom ISPs have teamed up to sue Vermont over two interrelated attempts to regulate internet access and restore rules rolled back by the FCC's Open Internet Order. The American Cable Association, NCTA-The Internet & Television Association, USTelecom and CTIA filed suit Thursday in a ...

Tegna Spotlights Pregnancy-Related Deaths

October 21, 2018

Tegna Is taking a hard look at pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S., which are far more likely among African American women. The U.S. maternal pregnancy death rate is twice that of other developed countries, according to Tegna. The broadcast group owner will debut the four-part investigative ...

Here’s How Viewers Reacted to ‘The Conners’ and Who Was Watching

October 21, 2018

On Tuesday night ABC premiered its much-anticipated Roseanne spin-off, The Conners. Even if you haven’t watched it yet, you still almost certainly heard about how the show explained away the disappearance of the matriarch of the Conners clan (played by Roseanne Barr, who was booted off of ABC after ...

Server Serves Best

October 21, 2018

"Linear TV has always known this, and now programmatic buying for video needs to drastically pivot in order to catch up." -John Peragine, Rubicon Conventional wisdom among marketers today has been that traditional TV marketing needs to take a page from the digital and programmatic media ...

New Kid on the Block Knight to Host HGTV Show ‘Farmhouse Fixer’

October 21, 2018

Jonathan Knight, member of the boy band New Kids on the Block, will host the HGTV show Farmhouse Fixer. Knight has been a restorer of classic homes and buildings for 20 years. The pilot, which shows Knight working on a centuries-old New England farmhouse, is slated to air in 2019. “Old farmhouses ...

ITIF to Court: Uphold FCC's Net Neutrality Deregulation Order

October 21, 2018

Science and tech think tank the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has told a federal court that the FCC had strong justifications for reclassifying broadband access as a Title I information service and rejecting bright-line rules, including that to do so would boost investment in ...

Primetime Ratings: Fox Wins With Broncos-Cardinals

October 21, 2018

Fox won the Thursday ratings race, as Thursday Night Football led the net to a 2.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. The game featured the Broncos versus the Cardinals. Last week’s game, Eagles-Giants, scored a 3.4. CBS got second with a 1/2/5. NBC did a 0.9/4 and ABC a ...

AT&T to Court: DOJ Has No Legal Legs to Stand On

October 21, 2018

The Department of Justice used bad numbers to come to the wrong conclusion about AT&T-Time Warner merger--that it would substantially lessen competition--and a lower court was right to reject that conclusion and allow the deal. That was the gist of AT&T's final brief before oral argument in ...

Showtime Offers ‘Ray Donovan’ Season Premiere Early to Subs

October 21, 2018

Showtime subscribers have early access to the season six premiere of Ray Donovan, which is scheduled for its debut Sunday, Oct. 28. Subscribers can watch the premiere as of Oct. 19 via streaming, Showtime Anytime and on demand. Liev Schreiber stars in Ray Donovan, and Susan Sarandon and Jon Voight ...