Broadcasting & Cable News

HBO, Bill Simmons Partner on Music Documentary Series

January 26, 2020

Bill Simmons and HBO are partnering on a multi-part documentary film series focused on music. There will be six parts. The untitled project “will concentrate on pivotal moments or stretches for a popular artist or band, an iconic album or the music business as a whole,” said HBO, with each episode ...

Hallmark Channel Chief Bill Abbott Out at Crown Media

January 26, 2020

Crown Media president and CEO Bill Abbott is leaving the company, the company announced Wednesday. Abbott, who has served as president and CEO for Crown Media Networks, which includes Hallmark Channel, for the past 11 years, leaves the company after building Hallmark Channel into one of cable’s ...

Intinor joins SRT Alliance

January 26, 2020

Umea, Sweden, 16 January 2020: Intinor, Sweden’s leading developer of products and solutions for high-quality video over internet, has joined the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) Alliance. SRT is an open source video transport protocol that optimizes streaming performance across unpredictable ...

ATEME Awarded Grant for AI Video Delivery Innovation

January 26, 2020

PARIS, DENVER, SINGAPORE, SAO PAULO, SYDNEY, 23 January 2020 – ATEME, a leader in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has been announced as a recipient of the i-Nov Innovation Contest grant for the IA4SEC project, involving its state-of-the-art video technologies. ...

NBCU Reports Lower Fourth-Quarter Earnings

January 26, 2020

NBCUnversal’s fourth-quarter profits fell as revenue declined 2.6% because of a drop in its filmed entertainment business, according to an earnings report by parent company Comcast. Overall Comcast reported higher profits and revenue as its high-speed internet business grew and it lost a small ...

Comscore Promotes Hinnant to Chief Revenue Officer

January 26, 2020

Comscore said it promoted Carol Hinnant to chief revenue officer. Hinnant, a 15-year veteran of Comscore and Rentrak, had been executive VP, national television sales. She will be a member of the company’s executive leadership team and report to Chris Wilson, chief commercial officer. "Over the ...

2019 Media Merger Activity Dropped 27%: PwC

January 26, 2020

Merger and acquisition activity in the media and telecommunications business slowed in the fourth quarter, leaving dealmaking down for all of 2019, according to a new report from consultant PwC. There were only 137 transactions announced in the fourth quarter, down 20% from the fourth quarter of ...

Alberti-Perez Named CFO at Ad Tech Firm MediaMath

January 26, 2020

Ad tech company MediaMath has hired Milena Alberti-Perez as chief financial officer, effective Tuesday. Alberti-Perez, who had been CFO of publisher Penguin Random House, a division of Bertelsmann Group, will be based in New York and report to MediaMath president Konrad Gerszke. She replaces Daniel ...

AMC Networks’ Acorn TV Acquires Exclusive North American Rights to Kudos Drama DEADWATER FELL Starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo from Endemol Shine International

January 26, 2020

The Acorn TV Original Series will make its US Premiere in April 2020 “The new Broadchurch…but more irresistible… moving, compelling crime drama” -The Guardian “Complex and fascinating mystery…The first episode… is a tightly written piece of television that sets up a number of fascinating characters ...