Broadcasting & Cable News

Full of Double Entendres and Sexual Innuendo Dramedy on Ultra Luna

January 05, 2020

Ultra Luna, the HD entertainment channel that features the most popular and captivating series, narconovelas and telenovelas catering to the Latina audience, announced the network premiere of the popular Bulgarian dramedy series Desenfrenados (Liaisons). Peppered with copious amounts of flirty talk ...

Don Imus Dead at 79

January 05, 2020

Don Imus, controversial radio personality, died Dec. 27. He was 79. Imus had been battling prostate cancer, but the cause of death was not divulged. John Donald Imus was born in 1940 in Riverside, California. Early in his career, Imus was at KUTY in Palmdale, California and KJOY Stockton, then KXOA ...

Vox Launches Targeting Based on First-Party Data

January 05, 2020

Vox Media said it launched Forte, a platform that uses first-party data about its users to help marketers target their ad messages. Vox, which merged with New York Media, publisher of New York, has 13 editorial networks. The first party data provides information about behavior, consumer interest ...

Nexstar Stations Producing New Year’s Specials

January 05, 2020

Nexstar Media TV stations in Dallas and Las Vegas are planning live New Year’s Eve specials that will be syndicated to some of the company’s other TV or digital outlets. Nexstar and its station in Dallas-Fort Worth, KXAS, are co-hosting Lone Star NYE Live, which will air from 11:30 p.m. CT through ...

Ed Black Retiring at CCIA

January 05, 2020

Ed Black, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which represents the major edge providers among others, will retire Tuesday following a quarter century atop the trade group. Current CCIA chief operating officer Matt Schruers will succeed Black as president. Related: ...

Ivanka Trump to Keynote CES Conference in Vegas

January 05, 2020

Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to the President of the United States, has been named a keynote speaker at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. “As a business leader and entrepreneur, Ivanka Trump is an advocate for creating family-sustaining jobs through workforce development, ...

Nexstar, Tegna Reach Retrans Deals With Comcast

January 05, 2020

Major station owners Nexstar Media and Tegna have reached new retransmission agreements with cable giant Comcast, averting potential New Years' blackouts. Nexstar also reached a retrans and carriage agreement with Charter Communications. Tegna also said it reached terms on an agreement with ...

Human Ambition takes the Action on Cine Mexicano January Movies

January 05, 2020

West Palm Beach, FL – January 1, 2020 –Cine Mexicano, the country’s top-rated Spanish-language movie channel offering an extensive library of fan-favorite titles including adrenaline packed action, drama, comedy, rancheras, thrillers and commercial-free contemporary Mexican movies announces the ...

Apollo Cox Stations Blacked Out to Verizon FiOS Viewers

January 05, 2020

The Cox Media stations acquired by Apollo Global Management have been blacked out to subscribers to Verizon’s FiOS as the result of a retransmission consent fee dispute. Verizon’s deal with the stations expired Tuesday at midnight. Verizon said that Cox Media is seeking increases of more than 70%. ...