Broadcasting & Cable News

‘Stranger Things’ Kid to Pitch Fios During Emmy Commercial

September 16, 2018

Gaten Matarazzo, the cute kid from Emmy nominated Stranger Things, will be appearing during Monday’s Primetime Emmy Awards show in a new commercial for Verizon. Not coincidentally, the commercial highlights the awards that have been won by Verizon’s FiOS fiber optic broadband network. Matarazzo’s ...

Sen. Warren Signals Amazon Needs Shaking Up

September 16, 2018

Looking to pull one of the teeth out of FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has called for the shakeup of Amazon, though one that could translate to breaking up its businesses. That makes strange bedfellows of Warren and President Donald Trump, who ...

NBC Makes Deal to Keep Golden Globe Awards

September 16, 2018

NBC has signed a new eight-year deal with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and dick clark productions that will keep the Golden Globe Awards on the Peacock network, where they have appeared for the past 23 years. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The next Golden Globe broadcast ...

Network News Departments Hit Carolina Coast to Cover Florence

September 16, 2018

The network news departments are all-in on Hurricane Florence coverage. The storm was downgraded to a Category 1, but lots of rain, and potential flooding, remain in the forecast. As of 3:30 p.m. ET, the cable news networks went to reporters in the Myrtle Beach area. On CNN, Brooke Baldwin was ...

North Carolina Station WCTI Evacuates

September 16, 2018

Sinclair's WCTI New Bern, N.C. had to evacuate the station Sept. 13 and go off the air due to storm surge from Hurricane Florence. The FCC confirmed the outage in its first report on communications outages from the storm, which it released Friday. Meteorologist Donnie Cox explained the situation ...

Jeanette Tully, Broadcasting Exec and Banker, Dies

September 16, 2018

Jeanette Tully, a longtime executive and broker in the U.S. broadcasting community, died on Sept. 11 in Nashville, Tenn., at age 71. She was remembered as a dominant presence in the broadcast industry, where her extensive media knowledge and financial acumen were sought by titans in acquisition and ...

Hispanic Groups Ask Texas AG to Vet Dish Marketing

September 16, 2018

A trio of Hispanic business groups has asked the Texas attorney general to look into Dish's marketing and consumer practices. The letter, which was sent this week, came from the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, RGV Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the National Hispanic Construction ...

Twentieth Selling 'This is Us' as Format in Int’l Markets

September 09, 2018

Hit drama series This Is Us is being licensed as a scripted format in international markets by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. The first format deal sees Medyapim producing a version of the show for Turkey, where it will air on Fox Network Group’s Fox entertainment channel. Fox ...

IBC NEWS: APPEAR TV SHOWCASES FULL SPECTRUM X-SERIES

September 09, 2018

AMSTERDAM, SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 – Appear TV, a leading global provider of next-generation video processing platforms for broadcast and streaming high-quality video, will showcase its high-capacity, ultra-low latency X-Series platform at IBC (Stand 1.C61). The X-Series (X10/X20) offers the complete ...