SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 13, 2018 — Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery technology and services, today announced that Magyar Telekom, a leading telecommunications operator in Hungary, has successfully deployed Harmonic’s EyeQ™ content-aware encoding solution for its IPTV ...
The premiere of the new version of Freaky Friday has been set for August 10 on Disney Channel. The live-action musical version of the mother-daughter body-switch comedy will be available before its 8 p.m. ET/PT time slot that day via the DisneyNOw app and Disney Channel VOD. "This movie is a ...
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House Democrats used a House Communications Subcommittee markup of a pirate radio bill Wednesday (June 13) to express their opposition to the FCC's rollback this week of network neutrality rules. Related: Net Neutrality Rule Rollback Effective June 11 That was during a markup of H.R. 5709, ...
Read more: House Dems Use Markup To Slam Net Neturality Rule Rollback
NBC carved up the competition Monday, as America’s Got Talent led the network to an easy win. NBC averaged a 1.9 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 9 share. In second were Fox and Telemundo at 0.6/3. America’s Got Talent featured a—spoiler alert!—golden buzzer given out to a ...
Read more: Primetime Ratings: NBC Crushes Competition With ‘AGT’
The House Digital Commerce Subcommittee has favorably reported a bipartisan bill that Subcommittee chair Bob Latta (R-Ore.) called an important first step in setting internet of things (IoT) policy. The bill, H.R. 6032, State of Modern Application, Research, and Trends of IoT (or SMART IoT) Act, ...
With a 21-year track record as the world’s largest producer/distributor of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, Audible has enlarged and totally reconfigured its in-house studio facility. Their expanded commitment to original audio content including multicast productions ...
USTelecom president Jonathan Spalter said it is time to establish "consistent safeguards" across the entire internet. That came in a speech to the Media Institute Wednesday (June 13) "roughly two days, 12 hours and 30 minutes" after the FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom went into effect, rolling ...
Read more: USTelecom's Spalter: Internet Freedom Has Been Restored... Now What?
Discovery has named Alex Wellen as president and general manager of its recently formed automotive focused Motor Trend Group, effective July 1. Wellen had been global chief product officer at CNN Worldwide. He will oversee the group’s strategic direction and global growth of businesses including ...
Read more: Wellen Named President, GM of Discovery’s Motor Trend Group
A record 1,072 TV stations are running local news, according to a new RTDNA/Hofstra survey, the fourth installment of their annual local TV and radio newsroom survey. That is an additional 10 TV stations running news, which the study attributes to a smaller number of newsrooms running news on more ...
Silver Spring, MD; June 13, 2018 - Following this month’s return of one of Acorn TV’s most popular dramas and foreign-language series with 800 Words, S3 and The Ladies’ Paradise, S2 (June 18) as well as celebrating Tales of the City’s 25 Anniversary, Acorn TV’s July slate features the exclusive ...