Broadcasting & Cable News

Media Buyers Welcome Reunion with ABC’s ‘The Conners’

June 24, 2018

ABC’s decision to order a spinoff of Roseanne—last season’s top-rated new comedy—without its controversial star was welcomed by media buyers still working on upfront negotiations for next season. “I think that having The Conners back creates a positive spin out of everything that’s happened, given ...

Unitymedia Redefines QoE Video Monitoring & Analytics with Telestream iQ

June 24, 2018

Nevada City, California, June 21, 2018 – Telestream, a global leader in file-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming and delivery technologies has announced a major project with German cable network operator, Cologne-based Unitymedia. The project sees Unitymedia adopting advanced video ...

Harmonic Enables Magyar Telekom to Maximize Bandwidth Savings and Add New HD Channels to IPTV Service

June 17, 2018

SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 13, 2018 — Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery technology and services, today announced that Magyar Telekom, a leading telecommunications operator in Hungary, has successfully deployed Harmonic’s EyeQ™ content-aware encoding solution for its IPTV ...

New ‘Freaky Friday’ Movie Gets Disney Channel Debut Aug. 10

June 17, 2018

The premiere of the new version of Freaky Friday has been set for August 10 on Disney Channel. The live-action musical version of the mother-daughter body-switch comedy will be available before its 8 p.m. ET/PT time slot that day via the DisneyNOw app and Disney Channel VOD. "This movie is a ...

House Dems Use Markup To Slam Net Neturality Rule Rollback

June 17, 2018

House Democrats used a House Communications Subcommittee markup of a pirate radio bill Wednesday (June 13) to express their opposition to the FCC's rollback this week of network neutrality rules. Related: Net Neutrality Rule Rollback Effective June 11 That was during a markup of H.R. 5709, ...

Primetime Ratings: NBC Crushes Competition With ‘AGT’

June 17, 2018

NBC carved up the competition Monday, as America’s Got Talent led the network to an easy win. NBC averaged a 1.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. In second were Fox and Telemundo at 0.6/3. America’s Got Talent featured a—spoiler alert!—golden buzzer given out to a ...

House Digital Subcommittee Approves IoT Bill

June 17, 2018

The House Digital Commerce Subcommittee has favorably reported a bipartisan bill that Subcommittee chair Bob Latta (R-Ore.) called an important first step in setting internet of things (IoT) policy. The bill, H.R. 6032, State of Modern Application, Research, and Trends of IoT (or SMART IoT) Act, ...

AUDIBLE - LEADING AUDIOBOOK PRODUCER TAPS WSDG WALTERS-STORYK DESIGN GROUP FOR NEW STUDIOS

June 17, 2018

With a 21-year track record as the world’s largest producer/distributor of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, Audible has enlarged and totally reconfigured its in-house studio facility. Their expanded commitment to original audio content including multicast productions ...

USTelecom's Spalter: Internet Freedom Has Been Restored... Now What?

June 17, 2018

USTelecom president Jonathan Spalter said it is time to establish "consistent safeguards" across the entire internet. That came in a speech to the Media Institute Wednesday (June 13) "roughly two days, 12 hours and 30 minutes" after the FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom went into effect, rolling ...