Broadcasting & Cable News

TCA: Fox to Debut Competition Series ‘The Masked Singer’ in January

August 05, 2018

Dana Walden, chair and CEO of Fox Television Group, said it is business as usual at Fox amidst Disney’s takeover of the bulk of Fox’s assets. “Not since my kids were little have I been asked so many times when we are going to Disney,” she quipped. Walden said the network mix "is going to remain as ...

TCA 2018: Nick Cannon All In For Fox’s ‘Genre-Defying’ ‘Masked Singer’

August 05, 2018

Fox shed a bit of light on its The Masked Singer game show, which the network announced earlier in the day. It’s a music competition series pitting 12 celebrities against each other. The celebs dress in costumes, hiding their true identity from the judges and viewers, and are judged strictly on ...

OTT Summit: T-Mobile's Jeff Binder Says 5G Will Be 'Game Changer' for Industry

August 05, 2018

Marina del Rey, Calif. — The emergence of 5G technology will be a game changer for both the mobile phone business and the digital video business, according to Jeff Binder, executive VP of home and entertainment at T-Mobile U.S. Inc. Binder (pictured above left), speaking Thursday during the OTT ...

OTT Summit: Byron Allen: Programmers 'Cannot Be Big Enough'

August 05, 2018

Marina del Rey, Calif. — In the current content climate, companies need scale and leverage, said Byron Allen, founder, owner, chairman and CEO of Entertainment Studios. “Where you get in trouble is if you’re too small,” said Allen, during a keynote address at the 2018 OTT & Video ...

Moonves Touts Sports Betting As Hot Ad Category for CBS

August 05, 2018

CBS CEO Les Moonves sees sports gambling driving powering big gains in advertising revenue. Despite questions about his future, Moonves was upbeat during CBS’s second quarter earning call with analysts Thursday, and said that CBS’s relatively new over-the-top service CBS Sports HQ and its Sportline ...

Vitec Group Supports Local East Anglia Filmmaker and Cast to Produce Debut Feature Film

August 05, 2018

BURY ST EDMUNDS, U.K. — Aug. 3, 2018 — Filmmaker Paul Cook was able to draw upon a wide range of production equipment from Vitec Group brands to produce his new film, “Magpie.” Cook’s production company has just released the trailer for “Magpie,” a crowd-funded film about a British soldier and his ...

Sonnet Technologies at IBC2018

August 05, 2018

Thunderbolt™ 3 External Graphics (eGPU) Solutions At IBC2018, Sonnet will showcase its new, award-winning eGFX Breakaway™ Box 650, a Thunderbolt™ 3 to GPU card expansion system designed and qualified specifically for large, power-hungry graphics (GPU) cards, including the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64, ...

beIN Sports USA Channels Dropped From Fios

August 05, 2018

A day after getting dropped off Comcast's Xfinity cable lineups in a fee dispute, beIN Sports USA said its channels are off Verizon Fios TV lineups as well. The international sports outlet said Verizon declined an offer to extend carriage under earlier terms that called for "modest" fee increases. ...

Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins Big With Pre-Season Football

August 05, 2018

NBC won the ratings race Thursday, putting up a hearty 1.8 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. That beat the 1.0/5 that CBS and Fox mustered. Pre-season football paced NBC, as the Bears-Ravens Hall of Fame game took up all of its prime. Last year’s pre-season opener scored ...