Broadcasting & Cable News

Telestream iQ End-to-End ABR Video Quality Monitoring Solution Helps Content Producers and Distributors Streamline Operations

October 14, 2018

Nevada City, California, October 12th, 2018 – Telestream, a leading provider of digital media tools, quality monitoring and workflow solutions, today announced that on its NAB NY booth (N.325), the company will showcase new updates to its end-to-end ABR video monitoring and analytics solutions ...

‘America’s Got Talent: The Champions’ Premieres on NBC Jan. 7

October 14, 2018

America’s Got Talent: The Champions, featuring the top acts from the Got Talent franchises around the world, debuts on NBC Jan. 7. Terry Crews hosts. Airing in the summer, America’s Got Talent’s Tuesday edition averaged a 2.8 rating in adults 18-49 and 14.2 million viewers overall in “live plus ...

Seth MacFarlane Joins Cast of ‘Loudest Voice in the Room’

October 14, 2018

Seth MacFarlane has joined the cast of The Loudest Voice in the Room, Showtime’s limited series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes. MacFarlane, creator of Fox programs Family Guy and The Orville, will play Brian Lewis, former Fox News PR chief and Ailes confidante. In June, MacFarlane tweeted that ...

FCC Gives Hart County, Ga., Access to Atlanta TV Stations

October 14, 2018

The FCC has agreed to modify the Atlanta designated market area to allow four Atlanta stations to be imported into Hart County, Ga. Hart is a previously "orphan" county that, because it was in a South Carolina Nielsen market (Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson), got network affiliates from ...

Frank Biondi Joins Board At AMC Networks

October 14, 2018

AMC Networks said it appointed entertainment industry veteran Frank Biondi as a member of its board of directors. After Biondi was named, the board accepted the resignation of former NBC Universal CEO Robert Wright, the company said in an SEC filing. Biondi was a director of Cablevision Systems ...

Delrahim to Hill: We Were Forced to Sue to Block AT&T-Time Warner

October 07, 2018

Makan Delrahim, who heads up the Department of Justice's antitrust division, told a Senate panel Wednesday (Oct. 3) that Justice had been forced to sue to block AT&T-Time Warner, the first such suit against a vertical merger in 40 years, after "multiple efforts to settle." That came in a Senate ...

Viewership Deep Dive: ‘NCIS’ and Its Spinoffs

October 07, 2018

NCIS has been going strong on CBS for over a decade and last week it kicked off its 16th season. We partnered with Inscape, the TV measurement company with glass-level data from a panel of more than 9 million smart TVs and devices, to look at viewership trends across this popular series as well as ...

DOJ Will Look at Comcast Move on Hulu Directors

October 07, 2018

Department of Justice antitrust chief Makan Delrahim says Justice's antitrust division will look carefully at Comcast's appointment of three directors to Hulu. That came in a Senate Antitrust Committee hearing Wednesday (Oct. 3). Delrahim said that while Justice could not extend the conditions in ...

FuboTV Adds 13 Local Stations to OTT Lineup

October 07, 2018

FuboTV said it has added 13 additional local stations to its streaming lineup. With the additions, FuboTV offers users 499 local channels and can bring a top broadcast network to 94% of U.S. households. The newly added stations are KSCC, the Fox affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas; WLTZ, the NBC ...