Broadcasting & Cable News

GOP Senators Want Internal Google+ Memo

October 14, 2018

Senate Republican leaders want Google to hand over an internal memo that appeared to show the company factored politics and optics into a decision not to inform users of a security vulnerability in its Google+ social network platform potentially affecting a half-million people. That came in a ...

CBS Names Rosenfield to Chief People Officer Post

October 14, 2018

Laurie Rosenfield has been named chief people officer at CBS Corp., a new position. The appointment comes after CBS CEO Les Moonves was removed in part because of reports of sexual harassment over the course of his career. The reports also focused on other areas of CBS, including its news division. ...

NUGEN AUDIO’S MUSIC AND POST PRODUCTION BUNDLES TO BE PRESENTED AT MUSIC CHINA 2018

October 14, 2018

SHANGHAI, OCTOBER 11, 2018 – NUGEN Audio, developer of modern tools for today’s production environments, announces that its NUGEN Post, Modern Mastering and NUGEN Producer bundles will be featured in the IMSTA Zone, the first music software-centric exhibit in Asia, during Music China 2018 (Hall ...

FCC Using Outside Economist to Vet T-Mobile-Sprint

October 14, 2018

The FCC has been using an outside economist to join the team reviewing the T-Mobile-Sprint merger proposal. T-Mobile and Sprint filed the proposed deal with the FCC June 18. FCC chair Ajit Pai said Thursday (Oct. 11) that professor David Sibley, the John Michael Stuart Centennial Professor of ...

Trump Says it Was 'Liberal Mob' That Opposed Kavanaugh

October 14, 2018

President Trump has labeled the pushback on now Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh a "liberal mob" and says Republicans who "courageously" stood up for Kavanaugh--who faced sexual assault allegations--now need "security to protect themselves from death threats." That came in an email ...

Telestream Highlights Advances in File-based Workflow and Streaming Solutions at NAB NY 2018

October 14, 2018

Nevada City, Calif., October 11, 2018 – At NAB Show New York 2018, Telestream (booth N.325), a leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, will showcase the latest version of Vantage, the company's powerful, scalable, software-enabled media processing platform that manages all ...

‘True Detective’ Starts on HBO Jan. 13

October 14, 2018

Season three of anthology crime drama True Detective starts on HBO Sunday, Jan. 13. The season has eight episodes. The new season tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods. Mahershala Ali ...

Soundly Collections Help Editors and Sound Designers Tell a Better Story with Sound

October 14, 2018

Oslo, Norway, October 11, 2018 – Soundly, an audio technology company and maker of the popular cloud-based, sound effects (SFX) library and workflow tool by the same name, today released Soundly collections. Soundly collections streamline search while inspiring creativity when creating audio ...

Digital Music Licensing Remake is Now Law

October 14, 2018

President Donald Trump Thursday (Oct. 11) signed the Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act, which updates the music licensing framework for the digital age and provides congressional overnight of a Justice Department review of long-standing consent decrees with ASCAP and BMI. While the bill ...