Broadcasting & Cable News

ABC Picks Up ‘Roseanne’ Spinoff Straight to Series

June 24, 2018

ABC has ordered a spinoff of Roseanne straight to series for this fall. The Conners (working title) will star John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson and Michael Fishman. Roseanne Barr, whose controversial Twitter comments recently prompted ABC to cancel Roseanne, will not ...

California Net Neutrality Bill Neutered, Say Backers

June 24, 2018

The California Assembly's Communications & Conveyance Committee approved the network neutrality bill of Senator Scott Weiner, but in a "gutted" form that not even he could support, according to the Senator. His bill would have essentially restored for California the no blocking, throttling, and ...

AVIWEST Enables Broadcasters to Deliver Live Coverage of French Polynesian Elections in Full Duplex for the First Time

June 24, 2018

Using AVIWEST PRO180-RA Transmitter Units, TNTV and Première Broadcast Live Election Footage With Greater Efficiency and Simplicity SAINT-GRÉGOIRE, France — June 22, 2018 — AVIWEST, a global provider of video contribution systems, today announced that TNTV and Première, the two public Polynesian TV ...

AMC Orders Season Two of Anthology Series ‘The Terror’

June 24, 2018

AMC has renewed its anthology series The Terror for a second season. The next season will be set during World War II and center on a specter that menaces a Japanese-American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war in the Pacific. There will be 10 episodes ...

President Trump Praises Online Tax Decision

June 24, 2018

President Donald Trump is a big fan of this week's Supreme Court's decision to allow states to collect sales taxes from online retailers without a brick-and-mortar presence in the state. Related: Supremes Decision Branded Online Taxation Without Representation The President tweeted of the ...

Supremes Strike Blow for Digital Data Protection

June 24, 2018

In a decision that could have wide implications for privacy in the digital age, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, has ruled that law enforcement must get a probable cause warrant, not simply a court order under the Stored Communications Act, to access certain communications stored by ...

Primetime Ratings: CBS, Fox Split Soft Night

June 24, 2018

CBS and Fox were the winners in Thursday prime ratings, on a night when no network exceeded a 0.7. Both CBS, in repeats, and Fox, with The Four, scored a 0.7/3. ABC and NBC were just off the slow pace at 0.6/3. CBS had comedy reruns until 10 p.m., then a SWAT repeat. Fox had The Four across its ...

Drama ‘Timeless’ Done on NBC

June 24, 2018

NBC has cancelled drama Timeless after two seasons. The network did not comment, but executive producer Shawn Ryan shared the news on Twitter. The second season premiere of the time-travel show started March 11. Timeless came from Ryan and Eric Kripke. It featured a scientist, played by Malcolm ...

FCC Opens Door To C-Band Sharing, Auction

June 24, 2018

Driven by an explicit desire to speed 5G and close the digital divide, the FCC has released a draft proposal to free up mid-band (C-band) spectrum (3.7-4.2 GHz) for wireless broadband--and perhaps eve auction it all to the highest and best user--a draft it plans to vote on at the July 12 public ...