Broadcasting & Cable News

Disney Boosts Fox Bid To $71.3B in Cash, Stock

June 24, 2018

The Walt Disney Co raised its offer to buy assets from 21st Century Fox to $38 per share in cash and stock, topping Comcast’s $35 a share bid—although Comcast’s offer is all cash. The move is the latest in an emerging bidding war for assets amassed by Fox chief Rupert Murdoch that include cable ...

Facebook To Stream Live Coverage of PGA Tour Events

June 24, 2018

The PGA Tour said it made a deal with Facebook, which will stream exclusive coverage of live Saturday and Sunday competition during eight of its golf event. The 60-plus hours of coverage will be presented free on Facebook Watch in the United States. The move is the latest example of streaming ...

Square Box Systems at BroadcastAsia2018

June 24, 2018

Square Box Systems will highlight the latest innovations for CatDV, the company’s flagship media asset management (MAM) system, which accelerates collaborative media asset management operations and empowers small-, medium-, and large-scale enterprises to repurpose and monetize millions of assets ...

Nexstar: 50% Cap Would Be Arbitrary and Capricious

June 24, 2018

While some broadcasters--including Hearst and Scripps have argued the FCC should raise the 39% cap on a TV broadcast group's national reach, Nexstar is telling the FCC that the cap has to go. It even suggests setting a 50% cap would be arbitrary and capricious and thus a violation of law. In ...

The Show Must Go On: Broadway Keyboard Programmer Turns to RME Fireface 802 for Robust Sound and Dependability

June 24, 2018

Monday, June 18, 2018 — Boston, MA – June 18, 2018 – For the last six years, Dave Weiser has worked as an associate keyboard programmer on some of the biggest hit musicals on Broadway, including “Evita,” “Le Mis” and “Phantom of the Opera” as well as a number of worldwide and touring productions, ...

Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Hearty ‘AGT’

June 24, 2018

NBC won the Tuesday ratings race, two hours of America’s Got Talent leading the network to a 1.9 rating in viewers 18-49, and an 8 share. That easily beat the 0.6/3 put up by Fox. America’s Got Talent lost 5% for a 2.1 and World of Dance fell 7% to 1.4. Fox had Beat Shazam at 0.7 and Love ...

Iger: No Chance Disney Would Agree to Carve Up Fox Assets

June 24, 2018

Bob Iger is ready for a fight. The Walt Disney Co. chairman and CEO, minutes after launching a sweetened $71.3 billion cash and stock offer for 21 Century Fox assets it already thought it had agreed to buy, told analysts that there is no way the entertainment giant would split those properties with ...

FTC To Review Merger Enforcement Regime

June 24, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission will conduct a series of hearings on antitrust enforcement with an eye toward changing its approach, including toughening up merger enforcement if necessary. That is according to newly installed FTC chair Joseph Simons, who said in a press conference Wednesday (June 20) ...

Commerce Vets Starks for FCC Seat

June 24, 2018

Democratic FCC nominee Geoffrey Starks got a thorough vetting by the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday (June 20), including a charge from Committee chairman John Thune (R-S.D.), who said the "hyperpartisanship of the last commission must come to an end" and called on Starks to "seek opportunities ...