Broadcasting & Cable News

Primetime Ratings: 'AGT' Blows NBC Out of the Water

September 02, 2018

NBC received top honors for Wednesday primetime ratings according to Nielsen overnights, adults 18-49. NBC rated a 1.3 and a 6 share which topped Fox at a 1.0/5. America's Got Talent stayed the same as last week at a 1.5/7 but was still enough to bring the network on top. World of ...

Viewership Deep Dive: HGTV’s ‘Property Brothers’ Dynamic Duo Is Back

September 02, 2018

Given last night's premiere of a new season of HGTV’s Property Brothers, we worked with Inscape, the TV measurement company with glass-level data from a panel of more than 9 million smart TVs and devices, to examine viewership trends around the brothers’ wildly successful franchise. One notable ...

Trump Goes Off on Media, Big Time

September 02, 2018

President Donald Trump has quintupled down on his press attacks, saying CNN's ratings "suck," attacking NBC's Andy lack as "incompetent" and "owrse," though the President did not explain what that meant, and tweeting the following Thursday (Aug. 30): "I just cannot state strongly enough how totally ...

TLC Streaming Digital Wedding Show on Go App

September 02, 2018

Discovery’s TLC network said it is launching a new original wedding-themed show made exclusively for its TLC Go app. The series, Brides on a Budget, is hosted by fashion and beauty expert Kahlana Barfield Brown. It follows for women planning their wedding who want the perfect look at the right ...

South Africa’s Magnatude Facilities Deploys EditShare EFS Tiered Storage Environment and Flow Media Asset Management

September 02, 2018

Basingstoke, UK — August 30, 2018 - EditShare a technology leader in intelligent scale-out storage, AQC and media management solutions, announced today that Cape Town, South Africa-based Magnatude Facilities, a division of Okuhle Media Group, has selected an XStream EFS 300 scale out storage ...

ESPN Scores Bigger Audience With Little League World Series

September 02, 2018

ESPN’s telecasts of the 72nd Little League Baseball World Series drew an average viewership of 1.02 million viewers, up 13% form last year, the network said, citing Nielsen data. The championship game on Sunday, with Honolulu, Hawaii, shutting out Seoul, South Korea, by a score of 3-0, drew 3.248 ...

Simple Minds and The Pretenders UK Tour Powered by Blackmagic Design Live Production Workflow

September 02, 2018

Fremont, Ca - August 30, 2018 - Blackmagic Design today announced that its URSA Broadcast with ATEM Camera Control Panel has been used as part of a live ATEM workflow on the Grandslam tour, bringing Simple Minds and the Pretenders to 14 major venues throughout the UK. Event specialist, LHG Live, ...

Blackstone Group’s Byron Wien to Deliver Opening Keynote Presentation at Media Outlook 2019

September 02, 2018

Byron Wien, Vice Chairman of Blackstone’s Private Wealth Solutions Group, will deliver the opening keynote presentation concerning economic trends at Media Outlook 2019, a seminar offered by Media Financial Management Association (MFM). Scheduled for Wednesday, September 12, from 7:30 a.m. to ...

CyberZ Renovates eSports Studio with ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K

September 02, 2018

Fremont, Ca — August 30, 2018 - Blackmagic Design announced today that Japan’s CyberZ built a new eSports studio in its media department around Blackmagic Design’s ATEM live switching products, including ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K, ATEM 2 M/E Broadcast Panel and ATEM 1 M/E Broadcast Panel. ...