Broadcasting & Cable News

Netflix Announces Overall Series Deal With Kenya Barris

August 19, 2018

Netflix officially announced that producer Kenya Barris has signed a multi-year overall deal to produce new series exclusively at Netflix. Barris is best known for creating ABC’s comedy series black-ish, and its spinoff Grown-ish on Freeform. He is also the writer of the movie Girls Trip. ABC ...

DirecTV Wins Partial Court Victory Over FTC

August 19, 2018

A California U.S. District Judge has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission failed to prove DirecTV's TV, print, or electronic banner ads in its "ditch cable" campaign were unfair or deceptive or contained affirmatively false info. It has yet to weigh in on whether the satellite operators' web ...

Fake Out

August 19, 2018

President Donald Trump's move on Wednesday (Aug. 15) to retaliate against his online and on-air critics by threatening to pull the security clearances of former national security officials, and pulling at least one already, is a fitting prelude to Thursday's protest by journalists against Trump's ...

TNT Orders ‘The Alienist’ Sequel

August 19, 2018

TNT has greenlit limited series The Angel of Darkness based on the sequel to its Emmy-nominated original series The Alienist. The Angel of Darkness, a co-production of Paramount Television and Turner's Studio T, will feature The Alienist’s lead cast including Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota ...

a4 Partners with Inscape to Deliver Smart TV Insights to Marketers and MVPDs

August 19, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO – August 16, 2018 – a4, the cross-screen addressable media company launched by Altice USA in 2018, has partnered with Inscape Data Inc., the leading provider of Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) data, to augment its set-box data with data from nearly nine million connected ...

NBCUniversal Breaks Ground on New ‘Boston Media Center’

August 19, 2018

NBCUniversal broke ground Thursday on its new multi-million dollar Boston Media Center, which will be home to its local NBC and Telemundo TV stations, NBC Sports Boston and New England Channel News (NECN). The 160,000 square foot facility is expected to be unveiled in the fall of 2019. “The ...

Heeere’s T-Mobile! Carrier Sponsoring Fallon in Central Park

August 19, 2018

Sponsor T-Mobile is taking NBC’s Tonight Show somewhere it’s never been before. On Thursday night’s program, host Jimmy Fallon announced that the show will be airing from New York’s Central Park on Sept. 13, an idea dreamed up in association with the cellphone company. "I just spilled the T," ...

Chris Shaw Returns to Cobalt Digital as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing

August 19, 2018

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Aug. 17, 2018 — Cobalt Digital today announced that Chris Shaw has rejoined Cobalt as the company's executive vice president of sales and marketing. Shaw will lead the sales and marketing team to develop and execute future campaigns and work with the Cobalt engineering team to ...

AIMS to Bring SMPTE ST 2110 Interoperability Demonstrations to SET Expo for the First Time

August 19, 2018

BOTHELL, Wash. — Aug. 17, 2018 — The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced that AIMS members will stage IP interoperability demonstrations at SET Expo, Aug. 28-30 in Sao Paulo. The demonstrations will mark the first showing of SMPTE ST 2110 interoperability at SET Expo. "With the ...