Broadcasting & Cable News

House E&C Seeks GAO Study of Spectrum Policy 'Breakdowns'

January 26, 2020

The bipartisan leadership of the powerful House Energy & Commerce Committee want to get to the bottom of what they call "the recent federal spectrum management process breakdowns." Reps. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), chairman of the committee, and ranking member Greg Walden (R-Ore.) wrote to the ...

Sonnet Announces Dual 2.5-Inch SATA SSD PCI Express® 3.0 Card With Hardware RAID Controller, 10Gbps USB-C Port

January 26, 2020

IRVINE, Calif. — Jan. 21, 2020 What's New:Sonnet Technologies today announced the Fusion™ Dual 2.5-inch SSD RAID PCIe® 3.0 card, the latest product in the company's line of high-performance storage cards that enable the installation of SSDs into a computer's or Thunderbolt expansion system's PCIe ...

Primetime Ratings: 'Grey's' Paces ABC to Win

January 26, 2020

ABC had the top score in Thursday prime, Grey’s Anatomy leading the Alphabets to a 1.1 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That easily beat Fox’s 0.6/3. On ABC, the season three premiere of Station 19 did a 1.2, 50% better than its season finale, and Grey’s a 1.4, 8% over ...

Actus Digital Expands US Sales Team By Appointing Jay Gedanken as Vice President of Business Development

January 26, 2020

BOSTON, Mass. — Jan. 21, 2020 — Actus Digital, a leading provider of compliance and intelligent media monitoring solutions, today announced that it has appointed Jay Gedanken as vice president of business development in the U.S. With over 35 years' experience in broadcast technology sales, ...

AT&T: FCC's Max Retrans Smackdown Should Stand

January 26, 2020

AT&T says that a recent court decision throwing out its civil suit against Max Retrans for violating a nondisclosure agreement does not undermine an FCC ruling that a number of TV station groups now represented by Max Retrans had not negotiated in good faith, a violation of FCC rules. Rather ...

ACORN TV ANNOUNCES 2020 LINEUP FEATURING A RECORD FIVE COMMISSIONED SERIES PLUS NEW SEASONS OF ACCLAIMED SERIES BLOOD, MYSTERY ROAD, AND LINE OF DUTY AND FIRST FEATURE-LENGTH FILM MISS FISHER AND THE CRYPT OF TEARS

January 26, 2020

AMC Networks’ Acorn TV – North America’s largest streamer devoted to British and international television – has announced a stellar 2020 lineup, consisting of five commissioned Acorn TV Originals. As the largest streamer devoted to a specialized audience, Acorn TV is the ultimate destination of ...

Nets Again Limit Broadcast Coverage of Impeachment

January 26, 2020

The broadcast networks continued to limit live broadcast impeachment coverage Thursday as the Democrats continued their 24-hour case against President Donald Trrump. No network provided more than three hours of live coverage of the Democrats' planned almost eight-hour arguments on their broadcast ...

Former NBC Station Group President Walworth Has Died

January 26, 2020

Theodore Holton Walworth Jr., former president of NBC’s owned stations, died Jan. 16 at 95. He was VP and general manager of WNBC New York throughout the ‘60s, and then president of the NBC group for most of the ‘70s. Walworth Jr. was born July 19, 1924 in Greenwich, Connecticut. He served in World ...

Jack Wyrick Joins Chesapeake Systems

January 19, 2020

Chesapeake Systems, the industry’s leading workflow solutions architects and services group for highly advanced technology systems in media and entertainment, announced today that industry veteran Jack Wyrick has joined the company’s Northeast team. As a Business Development Executive, Wyrick will ...