Broadcasting & Cable News

YouTube Crushes Facebook Among Teens

June 03, 2018

Video site YouTube is the most popular online platform among teenagers, displacing Facebook, which once dominated social media with that age group. That is according to a new study from Pew Research Center. Only about half (51%) of teens 13-17 said they use Facebook, compared with 85% who said they ...

CPJ Seeks Answers on Staged Death of Journalist Babchenko

June 03, 2018

The Committee to Protect Journalists still has a lot of questions about the staged murder of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, including why it was necessary. The CPJ had joined others in mourning Babchenko's death and condemning his killers after it was reported Wednesday (May 30) that he had ...

SONY CRACKLE SCORES WITH SERIES OF ORIGINAL SHORTS, ‘ROG & DAVO’S GUIDE TO RUSSIA,’ DEBUTING MONDAY, JUNE 11

June 03, 2018

Culver City, CA -- May 30, 2018 – Sony Crackle announced today that the free, ad-supported streaming network will launch “Rog & Davo’s Guide to Russia.” This series of 10 original shorts will air from setting the table for a month-long feast of soccer in anticipation of the 2018 FIFA World ...

David Goldman Joins SpaceX

June 03, 2018

David Goldman has joined SpaceX as director of satellite policy. Related: FCC Greenlights SpaceX’s Broadband Satellite Plan Goldman was most recently chief telecom counsel for the House Energy & Commerce Committee's Democrats, a role he took in 2015. Prior to that, he was the senior legal ...

Panavision Highlights the Continuing Expansion of the Millennium DXL2 Ecosystem at Cine Gear Expo

June 03, 2018

Panavision’s Millennium DXL2 8K camera makes its Cine Gear Expo debut on June 1-2 at The Studios at Paramount in Los Angeles. The premier, large-format camera with a new post-centric firmware upgrade will be showcased at the Panavision booth (#S102) in Stage 17, along with four new large-format ...

Trump Demands ABC Apology

June 03, 2018

The President continued to hammer the mainstream media in general, and ABC in particular, in a wave of tweets Thursday (May 31), renewing his demand for an apology from Disney CEO Bob Iger. Brian Ross, mentioned in the tweet, is the ABC News correspondent who in December was suspended ...

Primetime Ratings: Fox, NBC Split the Win

June 03, 2018

Fox and NBC were on top of Wednesday’s prime, both networks posting a 1.0 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights. Fox had a 5 share while NBC’s was a 4. The runners-up were ABC and CBS at 0.6/3. Fox offered the season premiere of MasterChef, which took up all of the network’s prime space. ...

Edmonton Police Service Reaches Milestone of 200,000 Video Assets Stored in CatDV MAM

June 03, 2018

WARWICK, U.K. — May 31, 2018 — Square Box Systems today announced that the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), the municipal police force for the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has passed a key milestone in its use of the CatDV media asset management (MAM) system: archiving of more than 200,000 ...

PANASONIC GOES WIRELESS WITH IMT VISLINK

June 03, 2018

SARASOTA, FL, MAY 31, 2018 - xG Technology, Inc. ("xG" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: XGTI, XGTIW), whose IMT Vislink brands are recognized as the global leaders in live video communications in the broadcast, law enforcement and defense markets, announces today a partnership with Panasonic that will ...