Broadcasting & Cable News

Comcast, Charter Form Mobile Platform Partnership

April 22, 2018

Comcast and Charter Communications have formalized a mobile operating platform partnership that will focus on the development and design of backend systems that support both Xfinity Mobile and the soon-to-launch Spectrum Mobile service. Reports of the partnership started to surface late last year, ...

Creative Unions Signal It's Time to Consider Regulating Edge

April 22, 2018

Add the major creative unions to those taking aim at online providers as the new gatekeepers in need of government scrutiny: Studios and other content creators are said to be on the same page when it comes to looking hard at edge provider conduct, particularly around copyright issues. For years ...

Pike Retiring from CBS' KDKA-WPCW

April 22, 2018

Chris Pike, VP and GM of CBS's KDKA-TV and WPCW-TV Pittsburgh, will retire next month after 39 years in the industry. CBS said he would remain on the job until mid-May, but also that he would remain until a successor was named by CBS TV Stations president Peter Dunn. “Under Chris’s leadership, KDKA ...

EX-MTV Honcho Sells ‘Stupid’ Series to Channel

April 22, 2018

Former MTV chief Van Toffler’s production company has sold a Jackass-like show to his old network. MTV ordered eight half-hour episodes of Too Stupid to Die, a series about a family that does outrageous stunts in their backyard. Toffler’s Gunpowder & Sky and MTV developed the series in ...

Primetime Ratings: CBS on Top With Comedies

April 22, 2018

CBS was the top ratings scorer Thursday, riding its comedies to a 1.4 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That squeaked by the 1.3/6 put up by ABC. CBS had Big Bang Theory up a tenth of a point at 2.4 and Young Sheldon at a flat 1.9, then Mom at a level 1.4 and Life in ...

Creative Groups: Facebook Is Monopoly

April 22, 2018

More creative coalitions are jumping on the edge-as-gatekeeper/monopoly train in the wake of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before House and Senate oversight committees last week. Related: Creative Unions Signal It's Time to Consider Regulating Edge In a letter to bipartisan leaders of ...

Life’s a Beach for MTV as ‘Ex’ Scores in U.S.

April 22, 2018

Ex on the Beach, a winner for MTV in 10 international markets, had an impressive U.S. debut Thursday night, scoring the highest ratings in four years for a new unscripted show on the network not based on Jersey Shore. The show scored a 1.07 rating among people 18 to 34, drawing 470,000 viewers in ...

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE COMMISSIONS WSDG - LEADING ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTIC DESIGN FIRM FOR ITS MUSIC, WORSHIP & THEOLOGY (MWT) BUILDING

April 22, 2018

IRVINE, CA —Concordia University Irvine (CUI) has engaged global architectural acoustic consulting firm WSDG (Walter-Storyk Design Group) of New York to design the professional recording studio in its new Music, Worship & Theology (MWT) building. The MWT building—the first building in CUI’s ...

420TV Celebrates 420 Day by Redefining the 'Typical Pot User'

April 22, 2018

As the world celebrates 420 Day, a date now considered the unofficial weed lovers’ holiday, 420TV is looking to redefine what it means to be a “typical pot user”… and it’s not what many people think. The newly launched VOD channel with content by and for the worldwide cannabis phenomenon suggests ...