Broadcasting & Cable News

EditShare IBC2018 Showcase Accelerates Productions with Secure, Real-time 4K, 8K Enterprise Shared Storage Video Playback, IMF Compliance and a Smarter Storage Flow

July 01, 2018

Basingstoke, UK — June 28, 2018 - EditShare will be promoting several key themes including important media and entertainment initiatives around content security and compliance, highly sought performance capabilities that vastly improve production and post-production workflows, and content ...

Groups Petition FCC To Delay Sinclair-Tribune Decision

July 01, 2018

Critics of the Sinclair-Tribune merger continue to try and get FCC chairman Ajit Pai to delay a decision on the deal until a federal appeals court rules on the UHF discount that made the combo possible. The FCC restored the discount under Pai--it had been eliminated under Democratic chairman Tom ...

Viaccess-Orca Connected Sentinel DRM Solution Completes Cartesian’s Farncombe Security Audit™

July 01, 2018

Connected Sentinel Assessed Against the Stringent Security Requirements for 4K Content Delivered Over IPTV and OTT Networks PARIS — June 28, 2018 — Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global leader providing OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, announced today that its Connected ...

Broadcast Consolidation Gives Industry Needed Breathing Room

July 01, 2018

The fact is, television must evolve in order to take advantage of the market opportunities afforded to cable and internet companies. In order to evolve, broadcasters must be able to fund innovation.-Armstrong Williams Defeating so-called “media concentration” has long been the liberal media’s ...

Quest Goes To the Cloud to Get on the Air Quickly

July 01, 2018

Cooper Media’s new digital multicast network Quest was able to get on the air quickly by putting its traffic and playout systems in the cloud rather than traditional satellite distribution. Working with technology companies WideOrbit and Amagi, Quest reached distribution of 52% of the U.S. in less ...

Showtime Orders Series Based on Halo Video Game

July 01, 2018

Showtime has ordered a 10-episode season of scripted drama Halo (working title), based on the video game. Kyle Killen is executive producer, writer and showrunner. Rupert Wyatt will direct multiple episodes and executive produce. Produced by Showtime in association with Microsoft/343 Industries, ...

Senate Judiciary Approves Music Licensing Bill

July 01, 2018

The Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously passed the Music Modernization Act. The House has already unanimously passed similar legislation. It now moves on to the Senate, where it is expected to pass as well. Related: House Passes Historic Digital Music Licensing Package The bill is a ...

Fox Comedy ‘Ghosted’ Won’t See Season Two

July 01, 2018

The Fox comedy Ghosted, starring Craig Robinson and Adam Scott, will not return for season two, the network has confirmed. The show debuted Oct. 1, a live-action series on the schedule amidst Fox’s Sunday animated shows. Ghosted is about the partnership between two polar opposites—a skeptic and a ...

Media Financial Management Association Announces 2018-2019 Officers and Board Members

July 01, 2018

Northfield, IL, June 28, 2018 – Media Financial Management Association (MFM) today announced the 2018-2019 officers and newly elected board members for the association and its BCCA subsidiary, the media industry’s credit association. Effective July 1, the officers for the MFM-BCCA Board of ...