Broadcasting & Cable News

Online Trolls Pose Growing Threat to Free Press

July 29, 2018

RSF says those "press predators" take various forms: 1) drowning legitimate news in fake news or pro-government content; 2) amplifying pro-government content via paid commentators on social networks or through bots, and 3) outright intimidation via insults or threats to try to silence them. The ...

Tru Optik Launches Audience Validation with Beachfront

July 29, 2018

Tru-Optik and Beachfront said they are working together to provide validated inventory segments across over-the-top devices. Beachfront said it is the first supply-side platform (SSP) to provide both inventory quality validation and audience validation across all OTT devices, including Roku, Apple ...

IMT and Vislink Showcase Leading Edge Wireless Camera Transmitters and Satellite Products at IBC 2018

July 29, 2018

AMSTERDAM, JULY 26, 2018 – xG® Technology, Inc. (“xG”) (Nasdaq: XGTI, XGTIW), whose brands are recognized as the global leaders in live video communications in the broadcast, law enforcement and defense markets, announced today that IMT and Vislink will be displaying a wide array of leading edge ...

NBCU Upfront Volume Up 5%; NBC Prime up 7%

July 29, 2018

NBCUniversal racked up a strong upfront, with a 5% increase in volume compared to last year. “Underscoring the importance and value of all this great content to advertisers, we just completed another outstanding upfront, with high single digit pricing gains, coupled with 5% growth in volume ...

Wheeler: Trump Tweet Should Not Sway FCC on Sinclair

July 29, 2018

Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler was looking to leverage President Donald Trump's pro-Sinclair tweet this week to pressure the current FCC to look seriously at Sinclair's fitness to be a licensee, not simply of the Tribune stations it wants to buy, but the ones it already owns. The President tweeted ...

ChyronHego Launches CAMIO 4.4

July 29, 2018

Latest Release of Industry-Standard Graphic Server Extends CAMIO Universe With Unified and Scalable Graphics Previewing and Rendering MELVILLE, N.Y. — July 26, 2018 — ChyronHego today introduced CAMIO 4.4, the newest release of the company’s industry-leading MOS gateway and graphic asset ...

SOLID AUDIOWORKS MIXES IMMERSIVE AMBIENT SOUND FOR MADDEN NFL 2018 WITH NUGEN AUDIO’S HALO UPMIX

July 29, 2018

EDINBURGH, UK, JULY 26, 2018 – As someone who “lives and breathes video game audio,” Will Morton, founder and director at Solid Audioworks knows how much an immersive soundtrack can enhance a player’s experience. Formerly a senior sound designer and dialogue supervisor for Rockstar North, Morton ...

Three Big Misconceptions About Addressable TV Advertising

July 29, 2018

TV, that large screen in the living room, will always be a powerful medium for marketers, but the delivery mechanism for how TV gets to that large screen has started to change. In the beginning it was broadcast over airwaves, followed by the move to cable. The new frontier is addressable TV, ...

RTW INTRODUCES NEW TM9 19-INCH RACK-MOUNT SOLUTION AT IBC 2018

July 29, 2018

AMSTERDAM, JULY 25, 2018 – RTW, a leading vendor of visual audio meters and monitoring devices for professional broadcast, production, post production and quality control, is bringing its TM9 TouchMonitor to IBC 2018 (Stand 8.D89) as a 19-inch 4U rack-mount solution (MA4U). The reconfigured unit ...