‘Gossip Girl’ Returns, ‘Willow’ Debuts: What’s Premiering This Week (November 28-December 4) R. Thomas Umstead published 28 November 22 A listing of original new and returning series, movies and documentaries debuting this week on streaming and cable services
Comcast Set to Jack Up Broadcast TV Surcharges By as Much as $7 Daniel Frankel published 28 November 22 Comcast's regional sports network fees are also going up, as are set-top rental charges
Former Station Exec Pulls for Standard General-Tegna Deal John Eggerton published 28 November 22 Says it would be big step for women
Sinclair Sees High Engagement With Bally Sports Plus DTC App Jon Lafayette published 28 November 22 No sales process for Diamond Sports unit, CEO Chris Ripley says
Bob Iger Calls Apple M&A 'Pure Speculation,' Says Disney Must Now Focus on Streaming Profits, Not Scale Daniel Frankel published 28 November 22 Returning Disney CEO makes his most illuminating comments yet at Monday morning employee town hall meeting
Michigan Win Over Ohio State Draws 17 Million Viewers for Fox Jon Lafayette published 28 November 22 Most-watched regular-season college football game since 2011 is part of big weekend for Fox
FCC Broadens Ban on Risky Communications Equipment By John Eggerton published 25 November 22 Extends prohibitions on tech from ZTE, Huawei, Hytera and others
HBO Max Sets December 'Lizzo: Live in Concert' Special By R. Thomas Umstead published 23 November 22 New Year's Eve concert follows Thanksgiving documentary film about Grammy-winning performer
Hallmark Channel's ‘Three Wise Men and a Baby’ Holiday Movie Delivers Ratings Gift By R. Thomas Umstead published 23 November 22 Finishes as most-watched cable movie of the year with 3.6 million viewers
Big Tech Sees More State-Level Attacks on Content Moderation By John Eggerton published 23 November 22 Says over 250 bills have been introduced
A Network of Their Own: TV Sportsplay By R. Thomas Umstead published 22 November 22 Women's Sports Network offers coverage of pro women’s leagues
Cover Story: A TV Field of Their Own Posted Women’s sports are getting unprecedented airtime, audiences
For Women in the Game, Title IX Is Bigger Than Sports Posted Landmark law, now 50, opened a field of opportunities to this year’s class of top women TV sports executives
40 Under 40 New York: TV’s Best and Brightest Hit the Big City Posted NYC TV Week gala returns to honor the industry’s emerging executives
SCTE Cable-Expo Preview: It’s All About the Broadband Posted After two years of virtual meetings, technology gathering becomes in-person event again
Cable Hall of Fame Comes Back for a Gala N.Y. Night Posted 2022 class set to be honored in person at red-carpet event
Who Knew? T-Mobile's Neville Ray Says Booming FWA Home Internet Biz Is Built on Spare Network Capacity - 'The Cost of Serving FWA Customers Is De Minimis' By Daniel Frankel published 17 November 22 T-Mobile CEO says the network capacity being used for its fast-growing fixed wireless access service isn't needed for mobile
Fixed Wireless Access Gets Put to the Test in Major Markets - Why 'Middle of the Pack' Looks Good Enough to Us By Daniel Frankel published 17 November 22 According to a new Opensignal report, fast-proliferating 5G FWA services aren't the fastest broadband offerings out there right now. But for the money? Why not?
Gigabit-Speed Internet Is Still in Only 15% of U.S. Internet Homes By Daniel Frankel published 15 November 22 Adoption of 1 Gbps provisioned speed internet has heated up a bit recently, but the uptake remains small given the telecom industry's expensive ramp-up to multi-gigabit speeds
FCC's Geoffrey Starks: Broadcasters Can 'Democratize' Streaming By John Eggerton published 25 October 22 Democratic commissioner suggests government could subsidize that effort
DirecTV Debuts 'SignalSaver,' IP Backup for When Satellite-TV Signal Is Lost By Daniel Frankel published 20 October 22 Residential customers with a high-speed internet connection can take advantage of this new free feature
FCC Broadens Ban on Risky Communications Equipment By John Eggerton published 25 November 22 Extends prohibitions on tech from ZTE, Huawei, Hytera and others
Big Tech Sees More State-Level Attacks on Content Moderation By John Eggerton published 23 November 22 Says over 250 bills have been introduced
NTIA: ‘Notice and Choice’ Privacy Regime Needs to Go By John Eggerton published 22 November 22 Says potential legislation should not derail strong regulatory effort
U.S.’s ‘Team Telecom’ OK with Standard General-Tegna Merger By John Eggerton published 18 November 22 Interagency committee says it has no problem with FCC approving deal
FCC Unveils New Broadband Map By John Eggerton published 18 November 22 Commission also updates new mobile broadband speed test
