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  • Pritzker Commerce Will Look Harder for Government Spectrum

    Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker promised to "look harder" for government spectrum to share or turn over to private industry and to work on creating a cybersecurity framework that includes industry at the table. That came in her Senate Commerce Committee nomination hearing Thursday. Pritzker said she supported the president's goal of freeing up 500 Mhz, that the National ...

  • Discovery Revision3 Launch Digital Video Network

    Discovery Communications acquired digital video provider Revision3, the pair announced on Thursday the launch of its digital video network TestTube. The network, available at TestTube.com and via Revision3's mobile site and apps, YouTube, Xbox and other distribution partners, will launch with 15 short-form series. Originally debuting with 10 million streams, the network expects to ...

  • BlackArrow Jumps in Cables Canoe

    Formalizing a working relationship that goes back about two years, Canoe, the MSO-backed advanced advertising firm, will announce today that it has licensed BlackArrow's advertising campaign management system as part of a strategy to help Canoe's national cable network partners accelerate their ability to insert ads dynamically into VOD content. Financial terms of the multi-year ...

  • Pai FCC Should Let Marketplace Decide Price of Auctioned TV Spectrum

    FCC commissioner Ajit Pai told a CTIA audience in Las Vegas this week that if the FCC tries to set "initial offers" for broadcast stations in the reverse spectrum auction, it should not do so based on the population it serves or the value of its station business. With that, he is speaking the language of the Preston Padden-led Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition, a ...

  • AE Bloomberg Discovery Partner With Twitter Amplify

    New York -- Twitter is extending its two-screen sponsorships from sports to other broadcast categories, on Thursday announcing partnerships with three new television brands at Internet Week. A&E, Bloomberg TV and Discovery Communications are joining previously announced partners BBC America, Fox, Fuse and The Weather Channel in the partnership program now called Twitter Amplify. ...


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Movie Review

The Sweet Hereafter

In "The Sweet Hereafter," writer/director Atom Egoyan takes us beyond the tragedy of death into the tragedy of living. He shows us how it isn't dying that hurts, but rather the pain of living in the hereafter of death, and dealing with the loss and grief that it brings. On a cold winter day in a small, isolated town in British Columbia, a school bus full of children slides off the highway and onto ... ...

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  • CBS prevails on near-three-way-tie Wednesday

    Not only did CBS and ABC have identical 18-49 results, they were even-steven in the 18-34 derby as well on a night peppered with season finales and reruns. And Fox was just a whisker behind in 18-49 and won 18-34. CBS had the most viewers, and NBC beat Univision for 4th ...

  • FCC Says Supremes Decision Backs Its Open Internet Order Authority

    The FCC has told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the Supreme Court's recent ruling in the FCC tower-siting case (City of Arlington v. FCC) means the FCC's interpretation of an ISP in the Open Internet order is due deference by the court. The appeals court is hearing Verizon's challenge to that Open Internet order. In a filing to the court ...

  • How to maximize iZotopes RX 2

    iZotope . Other manufacturers release competitive software products designed to help audio engineers clean up poorly recorded audio, but the iZotope line, starting with its flagship item, RX 2, fares well against any of ...

  • This second AM sale attempt should stick

    Sign up for free to get: The AM Report and PM Report delivered to your inbox. RBR-TVBR delivers complete broadcasting news analysis and our infamous ...

  • Reverse comp called a 50-50 proposition

    A financial executive at Gray Television says that things may change down the road, but at the moment, it looks like the standard formula for splitting transmission consent income between stations and networks is to cut right down the middle. According to a Media Post report, Gray CFO Jim Ryan said that although he suspects the networks may want a bigger cut at some point, the 50-50 model ...

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