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

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 ...

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Unitymedia Redefines QoE Video Monitoring & Analytics with Telestream iQ

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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House Dems Use Markup To Slam Net Neturality Rule Rollback

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, ...

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Primetime Ratings: NBC Crushes Competition With ‘AGT’

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 ...

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House Digital Subcommittee Approves IoT Bill

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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