Broadcasting & Cable News

TV Cultura in Brazil migrates playout operation to Pebble Beach Systems Marina automation control

May 27, 2018

Weybridge, UK, May 24, 2018 – Pebble Beach Systems, a leading automation, content management and integrated channel specialist, today announced that TV Cultura, Brazil’s award-winning public television broadcaster, is migrating its playout operations to Pebble Beach Systems’ Marina Lite automation ...

NBC to Air ‘Hair Live!’ in Spring 2019

May 27, 2018

NBC will air Hair Live! in the spring of 2019, the telecast shot in front of a live audience. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who have executive produced each of NBC’s live musicals since The Sound of Music in late 2013, will executive produce the event. Hair arrived on Broadway 50 years ago. With ...

AIMS at InfoComm 2018

May 27, 2018

Rich Zwiebel, AIMS Install Working Group Chair, to Lead Seminar on Implementing Interoperability Standards for IP Audio and Video BOTHELL, Wash. — May 25, 2018 — As part of its promotion of a standards-based approach for the adoption of IP audio and video, the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) ...

FCC's Carr: Internet Won't End June 12

May 27, 2018

Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr signaled this week he thought reports of the impending death of the internet were highly overrated. In an interview for C-SPAN's Communicators series, Carr said that on June 11, when the FCC's network neutrality regulation rollback takes effect, consumers ...

Olbermann Gets Expanded Role With ESPN Programs

May 27, 2018

Keith Olbermann, an early ESPN star who has returned to the network, is getting an expanded role with the sports giant. Olbermann will continue to develop regular features for SportsCenter, ESPN said. He will also be making appearances on PTI and Outside the Lines. Olbermann will do play-by-play ...

CBS News’ Ben Tracy on ‘Most Surreal’ Assignment in North Korea

May 27, 2018

Ben Tracy, foreign correspondent at CBS News, offered a rare perspective on the ongoing drama involving the U.S. and North Korea. Based in Beijing, Tracy was in North Korea to witness what the North Koreans claim is the destruction of their main nuclear testing site. Tracy said CBS News and CNN ...

House Approves ZTE, Huawei Ban From U.S. Government Systems

May 27, 2018

The U.S. government has taken another step in its official shunning of Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE, with the House voting to exclude them and their technology from government contracts and systems, though the prohibition will take several years to effectuate. The technology includes everything ...

Primetime Ratings: ABC Wins With Michael Jackson Special

May 27, 2018

ABC landed the top spot in Thursday prime ratings, as the special The Last Days of Michael Jackson led the net to a 0.9 rating in viewers 18-49 and a 4 share. That topped the 0.7/3 that both CBS and NBC posted. The Michael Jackson special did a 0.9 and What Would You Do? rated a 0.8 at 10 p.m., up ...

Edge Providers Targeted With EU Privacy Complaints

May 27, 2018

With the European Union's tough new online privacy framework taking effect Friday (May 25), websites were warning users that they would have to provide their consent for data use in order to use the service. Wrong move, said a privacy group. Following those pop-warnings, privacy activist group ...