Broadcasting & Cable News

Tales of the City Celebrates 25th Anniversary on Acorn TV beginning Monday, June 4, 2018

June 03, 2018

Landmark miniseries launched the career of Laura Linney and co-stars Olympia Dukakis, Paul Gross, Billy Campbell, Thomas Gibson, Parker Posey, and Ian McKellen Netflix producing new episodes for 2019 “One of the 10 best miniseries” –Entertainment Weekly “Uncommonly fine television” –The New York ...

Nielsen Announces Delay Replacing Local-Market Diaries

June 03, 2018

Getting rid of paper diaries after 60 years isn’t easy for Nielsen. Nielsen is telling its clients there will be a short delay in getting new local ratings in mid-size and smaller markets. And it says that competitors using big data to measure local viewing should take another look at their numbers ...

EditShare Announces Flow Media Asset Management Public Beta Program; Now Available to Select Creative Facilities

June 03, 2018

Basingstoke, UK – May 31, 2018 - EditShare® a technology leader in intelligent shared storage, AQC and media management solutions, invites the post production community to test the next generation of its Flow media asset management platform. For the first time, any broadcast or production facility ...

Sinclair Responds to FCC Data Request

June 03, 2018

Sinclair this week provided the FCC with information in response to the commission's request for information following Sinclair's latest, and expected to be last, variation on its Tribune merger proposal. The FCC was apparently looking for historical data on retransmission consent and ad ...

Fox News Expanding Morning Show ‘America’s Newsroom’

June 03, 2018

Fox News Channel is expanding its morning program America’s Newsroom to three hours starting June 11. Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith anchor the show, which currently airs 9 to 11 a.m. The extra hour will replace Happening Now at 11 a.m., with host Jon Scott starting as anchor on Fox Report Weekend, ...

VITEC and ATX Networks Partner to Offer End-to-End Content Security for Enterprise and Sports Venue IPTV Deployments

June 03, 2018

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — May 31, 2018 — VITEC, a worldwide leader in advanced video encoding and streaming solutions, and ATX Networks, a technology leader of optical and media access platforms, today announced a strategic partnership to provide a fully secure architecture for distribution of IPTV ...

FCC Rural Broadband Office Bill Introduced

June 03, 2018

Rural broadband issues continue to loom large inside the Beltway. The latest chapter in that story is the introduction of the Office of Rural Broadband Act, which would create an office at the FCC to coordinate with the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service and the National ...

NAB Says C-Band Sharing Isn't a Given

June 03, 2018

Broadcasters are warning the FCC not to weaken protections for current spectrum users, like broadcasters, in its race to free up more spectrum for wireless broadband. While that sounds like it could be a 2014 advisory on the potential impact of the broadcast incentive auction, it was actually the ...

Samantha Bee Apologizes for ‘Inexcusable’ Shot at Ivanka Trump

June 03, 2018

Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on TBS, apologized for calling Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, a “feckless c***” on her program May 30. “I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her ...