ESPN Secures La Liga Soccer League TV Rights R. Thomas Umstead ESPN Plus to air full Spanish league schedule beginning in August
Coop, Sweetie, Little Boo Take Flight When ‘The Chicken Squad’ Premieres May 14 Michael Malone Animated Disney Junior series features young chickens solving problems in their backyard
Magnolia Network to Launch Four New Series in July R. Thomas Umstead ‘The Cabin Chronicles,' 'Extraordinary Stories Behind Everyday Things,' 'Re(Motel)' and 'When We Call Home' to debut July 15
Fox News Adds Trey Gowdy, Dan Bongino to Weekend Lineup R. Thomas Umstead New shows launch beginning June 5
Pac-12 Taps Sports Media Exec George Kliavkoff as Commissioner R. Thomas Umstead Former Hearst, NBCUniversal exec to oversee operations for the conference
Major League Baseball’s New Disney Deal Includes Streaming Jon Lafayette ESPN Plus gets simulcasts and rights to new MLB content
‘Hacks’ Offers Unique Look at Female Relationships By Michael Malone Jean Smart gets laughs as Vegas comedian, but delivers dramatic gravitas too
PBS To Air Muhammad Ali Documentary Series in September By R. Thomas Umstead Ken Burns-produced series to debut Sept. 19
David Zaslav: Discovery Gets More Revenue Per Sub With DTC Than With Cable By Jon Lafayette Digital platform provides parity pricing to broadcast
FCC's Jessica Rosenworcel Asks Broadcasters to Promote Broadband By John Eggerton Says as first informers, they can get word out to eligible EBB recipients
Weekly Cable Ratings: Fox News Sweeps Primetime, Total Day Charts By R. Thomas Umstead Marks 12th consecutive weekly win on both charts
Cover Story: It’s Upfront Plus as More Commercials Come to SVOD Posted Ad dollars will flow to streaming, but are there enough eyeballs available for sale?
Operators Brace for Spike in NFL Costs Posted Analysts expect big license-fee hikes to pay for 10-year, $95 billion pacts
Broadband Infusion in Biden Plan Faces Challenges Posted Muni cable, speed requirements and wireless role add legislative hurdles
TVision Fades to Black, a Sign of Pay TV Uncertainty Posted T-Mobile’s surrender is a landmark defeat for traditional platforms
CommScope Says Combination Remote PHY/MACPHY DAA Solution Ready for Field Trials By Daniel Frankel Showcased during October’s virtual Cable-Tec Expo, the E6000n RD2333 RxD Distributed Access Architecture solution is a precursor to DOCSIS 4.0
Dish’s AWS Deal to Put 5G in the Cloud: ‘Like Netflix in a Blockbuster World,’ Ergen Says By Daniel Frankel Dish Chairman claims he based his original astoundingly low $10 billion estimate to build his 5G network with foresight that it would eventually be hoisted into the cloud
There’s More to Roku vs. Google Than the Usual Dollars and Sense By Alan Wolk YouTube TV’s potential separation from OTT platform raises issues Google wants to avoid
Comcast Touts 4G Speeds from DOCSIS 4 Device By John Eggerton Comcast said it has conducted the first ever lab test of a device it said will allow it to deliver multi-gigabit upload and download speeds over a hybrid-fiber coaxial (HFC) cable.
Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile Undercuts the Big 3 on Unlimited 5G By Daniel Frankel New pricing model competes favorably with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile
FCC's Jessica Rosenworcel Asks Broadcasters to Promote Broadband By John Eggerton Says as first informers, they can get word out to eligible EBB recipients
FCC Emergency Broadband Benefit Launch Draws Crowd of Fans By John Eggerton Hill Dems said internet service is necessity, as is help affording it
Study: Broadcasters Deliver Record Amount of Local News By John Eggerton For the second year in a row, local TV stations produced a record amount of news in 2020 despite pandemic-related budget cuts and revenue shortfalls.
State AGs Warn Facebook Against Kids Instagram By John Eggerton Allege past failures to protect children online
FCC Emergency Broadband Subsidy Program Launches May 12 By John Eggerton Agency says it will provide updates on distribution of $3.2 billion
