Broadcasting & Cable News

FCC Votes to Put More Broadband Spectrum in Play

June 10, 2018

A slightly divided FCC voted to advance the agency's efforts to free up more bandwidth, particularly in the higher bands, for wireless broadband. The commission voted to set additional rules for flexible-use millimeter wave spectrum for 5G. Those included "adopting an operability requirement for ...

Senate Committee Passes Ban on ZTE Tech Funding

June 10, 2018

Even as the Commerce Department was confirming a deal to remove an export ban affecting ZTE, Congress was moving to prevent government money to be used to buy ZTE equipment. According to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who proposed the restriction, the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved the ...

FLOWTECH TRIPOD TECHNOLOGY WINS PRESTIGIOUS D&AD AWARD FOR PRODUCT DESIGN

June 10, 2018

LONDON — June 7, 2018 — Sachtler and Vinten’s flowtech™ tripod technology racked up yet another honour on 26 April, when the great and the good from the global design industry gathered at London’s iconic Old Truman Brewery for the 56th annual Design and Art Direction (D&AD) Awards. flowtech ...

FCC Helps Some Rural Broadband Providers

June 10, 2018

The FCC has voted not to apply rules that make certain small rural broadband providers pay into the Universal Service Fund based on their broadband customers, a move billed as helping close the rural divide, lower consumer broadband costs, and perhaps put to rest questions of whether the FCC will ...

FCC Launches Leased Access Revamp

June 10, 2018

The FCC has voted unanimously to "modernize" its leased access rules. Those are the requirements that cable operators to set aside some channel capacity for unaffiliated programmers. Related: Pai Signals Leased-Access Do-Over The further notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) tentatively concludes ...

ESPN Signs Conference USA Deal

June 10, 2018

ESPN continued to bolster its lineup of college sports content for its upstart ESPN+ digital service by reaching a multi-year agreement with Conference USA. The deal, announced Thursday, provides ESPN with more than 175 C-USA football and men’s and women’s basketball games, more than 100 of which ...

Amazon Snags British Streaming Rights for 20 Premier League Matches

June 10, 2018

Amazon continued to dip its toe into live sports, securing the exclusive broadcast rights to stream 20 English Premier League soccer matches in Britain for three seasons beginning next year. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but it is expected to be far less than the $1.6 billion per year U.K. ...

Disney Junior Greenlights Second Season of ‘Fancy Nancy’

June 10, 2018

Disney Junior has ordered season two of Fancy Nancy, ahead of the series premiere July 13. The program will appear on Disney Junior, DisneyNOW and Disney Junior VOD. The series is based on a book series by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, about six-year-old Nancy, a girl whose zest, ...

Joseph Electronics Welcomes Christopher Ahern as Director of Business Development, Sports and Northeast

June 10, 2018

NILES, Ill. — June 7, 2018 — Joseph Electronics (JE), the premier one-stop shop for the broadcast industry and provider of fiber termination and custom fiber solutions, has hired Christopher Ahern as director of business development, sports and Northeast. In that newly created position, Ahern is ...