Broadcasting & Cable News

Brisk Iced Tea to Sponsor NBC eSports Tournament

July 01, 2018

NBC Sports said that Brisk Iced Tea will sponsor the annual Universal Open Rocket League eSports tournament, which will be live streamed by Twitch and YouTube. NBC Sports Group will host the grand finals of the event—a joint venture with FaceIt—at its international broadcast center in Stamford, ...

miniDSP Introduces “EARS” Calibrated Headphone Test Jig

July 01, 2018

HONG KONG, June 28, 2018 – miniDSP (www.miniDSP.com), a market leading designer and manufacturer of digital signal processing platforms and solutions for a wide range of applications, is proud to announce the launch of “EARS”, the Earphone Audio Response System. EARS is now available at the minidsp ...

Primetime Ratings: CBS Wins With ‘Big Brother’ Premiere

July 01, 2018

CBS won the Wednesdays ratings derby, as the season premiere of Big Brother led the network to a 1.3 in viewers 18-49, and a 6 share. That beat the 1.0/5 that Fox posted. Big Brother, in its 20th season, did a 1.5 from 8 to 10 p.m., down from last summer’s 1.7 premiere, and Code Black grew 14% to ...

Full Noncom Funding Gets Bipartisan Senate Appropriations Support

July 01, 2018

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved level funding for public broadcasting at $445 million for 2021, according to a buoyant America's Public Television Stations. (Public media are forward funded in an attempt to insulate them from politics). APTS president Patrick Butler also praised ...

Strauss to Head Content, Marketing for Disney Direct-to-Consumer Service

July 01, 2018

The Walt Disney Co. has put studio executive Ricky Strauss in charge of content and marketing for the much-anticipated Disney-branded direct to consumer subscription video-on-demand service set to launch late next year. Strauss, who had been president of marketing for The Walt Disney Studios, will ...

Telestream Releases Next-gen G6 Lightspeed Server

July 01, 2018

Nevada City, California, June 27, 2018 - Telestream, a leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, today announced its G6 LightspeedServer, the fastest, highest-quality server ever made available for Vantage intelligent media processing. Tuned specifically for Vantage systems, ...

O'Rielly: FCC Procedures Less Formalized Than Middle School PTA

July 01, 2018

The FCC's procedures for conducting business are less formalized than "a middle school PTA?" and comprise a "piddly little" three-ring binder of working procedures, most of which aren't in there anyway. That is according to FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly, who was taking aim at FCC processes in a ...

‘Thursday Night Football’ Starts on Fox Sept. 27

July 01, 2018

Fox has set the fall premiere dates for its shows. Drama 9-1-1, with new cast member Jennifer Love Hewitt, starts with a two-night premiere beginning Sunday, September 23. A day later, the season premiere of The Resident airs before the second night of the 9-1-1 premiere. On Tuesday, September 25, ...

Public Media Company, Michigan State University and WKAR Announce Plans For “Next Gen TV” Test Station

July 01, 2018

Boulder, Colo. (June 28) -- In collaboration with Michigan State University and WKAR, Public Media Company is excited to announce the launch of an experimental Next Gen TV broadcasting station. This is the first ATSC 3.0 test station by a public media station and will be designed to explore the ...