Broadcasting & Cable News

Fox News Selects Melissa Francis to Serve as ‘Outnumbered’ Co-Host

July 08, 2018

Fox News Channel Monday (July 2) named Fox Business Network personality Melissa Francis as a co-host of its afternoon news analysis show Outnumbered. Francis, who currently co-hosts Fox Business Network’s post-market show After the Bell, will join Outnumbered co-anchor Harris Faulkner on the daily ...

Cedato Launches Engagement Driven Video Ad Format

July 08, 2018

Programmatic video company Cedato introduced an engagement-driven ad format called IntentView. IntentView appears in a video stream as a picture-in-picture overlay with a dynamic video thumbnail preview of the ad message. When activated by the viewer, the thumbnail expands into a full-view video ad ...

NAB SHOW NEW YORK TO HOST STREAMING SUMMIT

July 08, 2018

The Streaming Summit is co-produced by streaming industry expert Dan Rayburn and will be held October 17-18 at the Javits Convention Center. The Streaming Summit, which was first introduced at the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas, will address a wide range of topics, including ad insertion, live OTT ...

TF1 Chooses Harmonic for Live UHD Delivery of Major Sports Events

July 08, 2018

Harmonic’s Contribution and Distribution Solution Increases Bandwidth Efficiency and Preserves Sharp Image Quality SAN JOSE, Calif. — July 3, 2018 — Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery technology and services, today announced that TF1, a leading French TV channel, has ...

Horry Telephone Loses Nexstar's WBTW in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in Retrans Spat

July 08, 2018

Ahead of the July 4 holiday, Horry Telephone Cooperative customers in the Myrtle Beach, S.C., area lost access to Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate station WBTW on the pay-TV provider's lineup as HTC and Nexstar couldn't agree on a new retransmission-consent agreement. HTC, supported by the American ...

McCreery Named to NAB TV Board

July 08, 2018

Patrick McCreery has been tapped to join the National Association of Broadcasters Television board. The president of the Meredith Local Media Group was appointed by board chair Jordan Wertlieb to succeed Meredith president Paul Karpowicz, who retired at the end of last month. McCreery had been VP ...

Pai Proposes Moving EEO to Enforcement Bureau

July 08, 2018

FCC chair Ajit Pai has proposed moving oversight of its Equal Employment Opportunity rules from the Media Bureau to the Enforcement Bureau. That came on what Pai identified as the 50th anniversary of the FCC's commitment to make sure the national policy against discrimination applied to broadcast ...

Decades TV Network Offers Special 4th of July Marathon of The Twilight Zone

July 08, 2018

Chicago, IL (July 2, 2018) – The DECADES TV Network salutes the land of the unusual and home of the fantastical with Rod, White & Blue: A Twilight Zone Celebration, an all-day July 4th dimension event, bringing fans of the landmark American anthology TV series The Twilight Zone together this ...

Primetime Ratings: ‘Bachelorette’ Again Scores for ABC

July 08, 2018

Led by a strong performance from a two-hour telecast of The Bachelorette, ABC won the Monday night 18-49 demo ratings race by a significant margin, scoring a 1.1 rating and 5 share, compared to second-place NBC’s 0.7/3, per Nielsen overnights. The Bachelorette did a 1.2 to open the night for ABC, ...