• “Twitter Amplify” promises more ad dollars for TV

  TV alcohol ads under scrutiny in UK The United Kingdom has rules in place which prevent the placement of alcohol advertising on programs designed to appeal to children, but as ...

• Prototype BBC radio localizes programs

  TV alcohol ads under scrutiny in UK The United Kingdom has rules in place which prevent the placement of alcohol advertising on programs designed to appeal to children, but as ...

• TV alcohol ads under scrutiny in UK

  The United Kingdom has rules in place which prevent the placement of alcohol advertising on programs designed to appeal to children, but as children have been watching a greater amount of programming aimed at adults, the rules on such ads are getting a look. According to The Guardian, Ofcom is looking into the matter (Ofcom is the British FCC). To Americans, who might see three or four beer ...

• Sepulveda Nominated as Ambassador

  Former top Senate Communications Subcommittee aide Danny Sepulveda has been nominated by President Obama to the rank of ambassador. Sepulveda has, since April, been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Communications and Information Policy at the State Department, where his former boss, former Communications Subcommittee chairman Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), is now Secretary ...

• Salinas station goes to Mount Wilson

  Buckley Radio's KYZZ-FM Salinas CA programming can also be heard on its KIDD-AM Monterey CA. But the FM will be getting an identity all its own when a deal to sell it to Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters is completed. For Saul Levine's Mount Wilson, the deal will add to its current holdings in the Los Angeles area. And Buckley will still reach the Monterey-Salines market with the ESPN ...

• WNTR-FM flips to Hot AC

  Entercom Indianapolis' Variety Hits AC WNTR was re-launched to become Hot AC "1079 The Mix." "Mix will be artist driven and more current than before," said WZPL Operations Director, J.R. Ammons. "Mix's new Hot AC format will play more music than competitors in the market and deliver more of what women want, the best of 2000's and today." "We are ...

• CMT picks up “Hell’s Kitchen”

  Viacom's CMT has reached a multi-year licensing deal with Debmar-Mercury to become the exclusive cable partner for off-network episodes of "Hell's Kitchen," produced by ITV Studios America. The series debuts weekdays beginning this 5/27, at 12 p.m. ET/PT on CMT and will also be available on CMT VOD. "The high energy and drama Gordon Ramsay brings to this series is a ...

• Hot dog stand marketing version of sales Volume 8

  WNTR-FM flips to Hot AC Entercom Indianapolis' Variety Hits AC WNTR was re-launched to become Hot AC "1079 The Mix." "Mix will be artist driven and more current ...

• Report Yahoo Bids for Hulu

  according to Reuters, which cited two anonymous sources. Yahoo has said that it is considering other acquisitions and has been working to expand its video offerings for some time. Other companies that have been mentioned as possible suitors include former News Corp. president Peter Chernin, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV and Guggenheim Digital ...

• U.S. stocks halt four-week run of gains

  SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks ended slightly lower Friday--though blue-chips squeaked out a mild gain--and broke a four-week winning streak as anticipation of the end to the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing cooled a rally that's repeatedly knocked through highs. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

• BBC Cans Tapeless Production Project at Great Cost

  BBC Director General, Tony Hall, has scrapped the Digital Media Initiative (DMI) project saying it had "wasted a huge amount of license fee payers' money." The write off equates to the annual receiver tax for around 670,000 homes. Hall revealed, "I have serious concern about how we managed this project." The contract to deliver the DMI was originally awarded to Siemens ...

• Operators dismiss virtual set top at London summit

  Pay-TV operators denied that the set-top box would disappear up into the cloud anytime soon at the recent Connected TV Summit in London. They also scotched the idea proposed by some leading Telcos that the set top could effectively be replaced by smart TVs with the User Interface then rendered from the cloud. Perhaps more surprisingly they were dismissive of network storage at least in the ...

• Rupert Murdoch plans to poison News Corp takeover bids

  The plan will act as a powerful disincentive to anyone seeking to challenge Rupert Murdoch's control of the two companies. Photograph: Facundo ...

• Groups Want DOJ Answers on Targeting Journalists

  Close to five dozen groups have demanded that attorney general Eric holder provide a "full and transparent" account of DOJ's targeting of journalists and whistleblowers, in particular its subpoena of AP phone records in a whistleblower investigation and reports it had seized phone records of a Fox reporter. Craig Aaron, president of Free Press, one of 57 groups that sent a letter ...

• Why some Telcos are going OTT only

  The conventional wisdom is that while OTT is fine for TV Everywhere service extensions, core pay-TV will continue to be delivered over dedicated walled garden networks for the foreseeable future. But, there are one or two operators flouting this’ wisdom’ and perhaps giving us sight of the future by going all OTT now. This is usually because of some special circumstances pertaining ...

• New metadata enables legal content sharing across IPTV platforms

  At last, IPTV is getting a standard framework for interoperability of rights information as a result of cooperation between the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) ...

• Broadcast Sports Inc. develops new Ref Cam system for close-up views of action on the field

  Broadcast Sports, Inc. has developed another revolutionary wireless camera system that puts television viewers on the field and in the action of their favorite sports. The Ref Cam is a person-wearable wireless camera configuration that uses an HD mini POV camera paired with BSI’s HD mini transmitter. The camera is positioned at the eye level of a referee giving viewers his first-person ...

• BBC ups ante in carriage war with Sky

  its battle with satellite operator BSkyB to a new level by threatening to charge for its popular channels such as BBC1 if Sky does not drop carriage fees. Currently, the BBC pays £5 million ($8 million) a year for channels to be included in ...

• British Columbia teen rescues dog from cougar

  A Canadian teen and his dog are recovering from wounds after he rescued the dog from a cougar in what he called "the most terrifying thing I've ever endured." Levi Sadler, 16, said he was at home in Belcarra, near Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday night when he heard his black Labrador, Daisy, screaming outside of his window, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday. ...

• Judgment for Judy as Big Bang slips

  Judge Judy had the highest rated syndicated show during the week of 5/6/13, and although Big Bang will won the title for most viewers, it slipped under the 10M mark. Wheel of Fortune was 2nd in viewers and 3rd in ...

• Rockefeller Still Targeting June for Wheeler Hearing

  According to a committee source, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) is targeting June for a nomination hearing for Tom Wheeler as the next FCC chair. Rockefeller chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, which will have to approve the nomination before it gets a floor vote. The president has yet to nominate a Republican, and Wheeler almost certainly would not get a full-Senate vote until he was paired ...

• Snell introduces new IQ modular range of format converters

  Snell is introducing a new IQ format converter range that provides high-quality conversion of common SD, HD and 3Gb/s formats for broadcast systems. In addition to conversion, the new modules can perform a host of video, audio, and metadata functions. Snell is also unveiling the IQQSM range of 3Gb/s/HD/SD-SDI quad split monitors, ideal for local monitoring with LCD displays. These IQ modules ...

• Dejero LIVE+ portal now offers remote control of LIVE+ 2020 LIVE+ VSET

  LIVE+ VSET mobile ENG systems. Integrated with Dejero's LIVE+ Portal intelligent online management system, this new feature enables broadcast organizations to manage and control their LIVE+ 20/20 or LIVE+ VSET transmitters from any location in the world using any Web ...

• Lower costs may revive EU super broadband plans

  The EU may after all go ahead with plans to give all households access to super-fast broadband by 2020, after a survey has found it had grossly over-estimated the cost. The EU had budgeted €270 billion to deliver super-fast broadband to all, defined as 30Mb/s or more data downstream, but that was based on the assumption that it would require FTTH (Fiber To The Home) in most cases. Now, a ...

• Change at the channels Television networks unveil fall plans and new approaches Press of Atlantic City

  The Marvel franchise is going prime time, as are Dracula and Ichabod Crane. "Person of Interest" is changing nights, "Dancing With the Stars" will be once a week, "Community" and "Mike & Molly" will be later in the season. Some shows will have shorter runs. And that's just what we know now. Last week saw the major broadcast networks - ABC, ...

• $30K deals in Texas Virginia

  $30K KMUL-AM/KICA-FM Farwell TX from Tallgrass Broadcasting LLC (C. David Rhoades, receiver) to Tejas Broadcasting LLC, a subsidiary of New World Broadcasting Inc. (James L. Anderson). $7.5K earnest money, balance in cash at closing. LMA until closing. Superduopoly with KKNM-FM Bovina TX, KGRW-FM Friona TX, KICA-AM/KKYC-FM Clovis NM. [FCC file date 5/14/13] $30K WRIS-AM Roanoke-Lynchburg VA ...

• Watchdog expresses misgivings about Wheeler nomination

  Free Press would like an FCC chairman who puts the public first and foremost and industry stakeholders second, and does not believe that's what we're going to get with nominee Tom Wheeler. In an article on Huffington Post, Free Press's Craig Aaron had no trouble identifying potential problems with Wheeler as head of the Commission. First and foremost is his resume, which ...

• Fort Worth LPTV worth a million plus

  $1.05M KFVW-LD Dallas-Fort Worth TX (Fort Worth TX) from Gerald Benavides to New York Spectrum Holding Company LLC (Charles M. Naumer et al). $52.5K escrow, balance in cash at closing. [FCC file date ...

• TV execs well-represented on CEO pay list

  A list of the best-paid corporate executives in the US during 2012 is top-heavy with television CEOs. And CBS honcho Leslie Moonves is king of the hill, leading all executives and beating the #2 by over $10M despite suffering a pay decrease compared to his 2011 income. The list comes from research firm and executive compensation specialist Equilar. The average CEO of a large public company ...

• Amedia Russia Inks Volume Deal With CBS Studios International

  In the wake of the L.A. screenings, Amedia Russia has concluded a multiyear, multiplatform volume deal with CBS Studios International, which will give it rights to broadcast current and future series produced by CBS. As part of this agreement, Amedia will also have rights to offer CBS programming on its own digital platforms, including the linear pay-TV channels Amedia Premium HD, Amedia 1 ...

• Harmonic Ellipse 3000 to make Asia debut at BroadcastAsia2013

  Harmonic will showcase the Ellipse 3000 contribution encoder for the first time in Asia. The Ellipse 3000 employs MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:0/4:2:2 8- and 10-bit compression technologies to enable transmission of pristine real-time video over satellite and broadband contribution networks. By encoding the highest-possible picture quality at the front end of ...

• Sound Devices announces enhanced options for PIX 260i users

  Sound Devices now offers expanded audio and video recording and file transfer capabilities with its newest firmware update, Version 1.02. With the new version, all drives are now formatted as exFAT instead of UDF. While this new drive formatting is available, it is still possible for PIX 260i users to record and play back from UDF drives for compatibility with the PX 220i and PIX 240i. Users ...

• Topeka station loses a reliable engineer who’s seen it all

  WIBW, the CBS affiliate in Topeka KS, has announced that veteran broadcast engineer Elmer Gunderson, the station’s longest-tenured employee who started in November 1955 (just two years after the station officially went on the air), has died of cancer. Perhaps fittingly, in a 2008 interview with the Topeka Capital-Journal, Gunderson related his love for the broadcast business and how ...

• Q Public Service Broadcasting A

  The London-based musical duo -- J. Willgoose, Esq and Wrigglesworth -- use samples from old public information films and footage as the basis for their brand of music You''re coming to Belfast. What can you tell us about the live show? J. Willgoose, Esq: "There''s a lot going on! Me and Wrigglesworth take care of the music and do as much as possible live. ...

• News Corp. Board Approves Separation

  News Corp. said its board has approved the plan to separate its businesses into two companies that will be publicly traded. The two new companies will be 21st Century Fox, which will own the TV and movie businesses, and News Corp., which will own publishing assets in Australia. The separation is expected to occur on June 28. The new movie and TV company will have three new directors who ...

• Cord Cutters are hurting pay television

  The new figures confirm a definite trend of cord cutters having an impact on pay television as viewers move to watching more inexpensive television over the ...

• Dish Network seeks to buy LightSquared spectrum

  LightSquared filed for bankruptcy last year after federal regulators blocked approval to build its network due to concerns it would interfere with global-positioning ...

• Portland Telco delivers local DTV stations via IPTV to Roku box

  A trend has begun to emerge among multichannel video programming distributors (MVPD) to stem the tide of "chord cutters" that continue to cancel their subscriptions in favor of on-demand services like those from Apple, Netflix, Roku and others. The solution, many feel, is to give customers what they want: a lower monthly TV service bill that allows them to pick and choose the programs ...

• ScheduALL releases ScheduALL 5 with smart technology

  ScheduALL 5 automates previously labor-intensive functions such as slack capacity optimization, media system integration and third-party ...

• Ross Video introduces Vision Tritium 3MLE production switchers

  Ross Video has introduced its Vision Tritium 3MLE modular production switchers. The switchers combine the Vision Octane feature set with a budget-sensitive new package. Models include the Tritium V3M with a 24-button 3MLE panel and Tritium V3 with a 32-button panel. The switchers offers 48 x 32 multi-definition inputs and outputs, six 3D DVEs, 16 channels of internal media stores, 16 keyers, ...

• Program spending leads to job cuts at ESPN

  ESPN , the Walt Disney Co.-owned giant of sports broadcasting, is firing about five percent of its workforce-about 400 of its 7,000 employees in an effort to reduce operating expenses. Many say the all-sports network, which is still growing, despite this latest round of cuts, has spent way too much on exclusive sports programming-such as its recent acquisition of the exclusive rights to the U.S. ...

• Shure introduces new sound isolating earphone SE846

  Shure has announced the introduction of the SE846 Sound Isolating Earphone, featuring a Quad High-Definition MicroDriver with a three-way system configuration for dedicated low-, mid- and high-frequency distribution. The SE846 patent-pending design includes a groundbreaking low-pass filter, a true subwoofer that enables deep low-end performance without sacrificing clarity or detail. Designed for ...

• Prism Sound launches two versions of SADiE 6

  Prism Sound has released two new versions of its SADiE 6 software. SADiE 6 Professional and SADiE 6 Lite are designed to bring this ground-breaking audio production and recording software to a much wider audience by allowing users to access the software at a lower price point. SADiE 6 Lite presents the core capabilities of SADiE in an entry level package, while SADiE 6 Professional can handle ...

• News Corp. board approves spinoff plan

  News Corp. directors will move forward with CEO Rupert Murdoch's plans to split the company into two divisions next month. The board also approved a $500 million stock repurchase program to follow the split. The spinoff, set for 6/28, will create "21st Century Fox," (at one point it was to be called "Fox Group") which will include entertainment operations, cable and ...

• NASH FM adds five Cumulus stations

  Given the huge success of its Country WNSH-FM NY, Cumulus announces the expansion of the NASH FM Country music and lifestyle brand to five additional stations. These stations will be known as NASH FM - with their logos, websites and on-air promotions. The stations adopting include WPKR/WPCK (Appleton-Oshkosh/Green Bay, WI), KHKI (Des Moines, IA), WKAK (Albany, GA),KQFC (Boise, ID) and WLXX ...

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