His promotion follows the departure of Mike Biard, who is moving to be Nexstar’s president-COO.
Red Bee Media, a global media services provider, today named James Arnold chief executive officer. He steps into the role from his previous position as chief commercial officer, “bringing his […]
Damian Riordan will head sales for the national networks, while Matthew Hijuelos has been promoted to vice president of distribution partnerships, reporting to Riordan.
She joins the Nexstar-owned network brings her in from Google to oversee negotiating and managing The CW’s distribution and overseeing affiliate relations with its station group partners.
Fox Corp. CTO and President of Digital Paul Cheesbrough and Jeff Dow, its EVP, media & broadcast operations, offered a rare glimpse into how the company built a new cloud-centric architecture that feeds all of its broadcast and digital streams in a TVNewsCheck webinar last week.
Exclusives
Allen Media Group’s Weather Channel named Tony Leadman executive director of international distribution. In this new role, he is responsible for developing and leading a business unit that will distribute The Weather […]
He moves from Sinclair Broadcast Group to lead distribution of TelevisaUnivision’s broadcast and cable networks, the new ViX global streaming platform and other related content to TelevisaUnivision’s network distribution partners.
She will oversee the group’s retransmission consent agreements with MVPDs and virtual-MVPDs, as well as content negotiations with the company’s television network partners.
Yangaroo Inc., a provider of workflow management and media distribution solutions, said its advertising content management and delivery division has entered into a partnership with Innovid, an independent advertising and […]
Sinclair promotes Bell from director, senior corporate counsel, to oversee both distribution of the company’s content portfolio and Sinclair’s network affiliations.
Migration From Satellite To IP Has Already Begun, And It’s Time To Get On Board
Zixi’s Robert Poletiek: “Over the past five years audiences have begun a mass migration towards consumption of IP-based content streaming services at an accelerated pace. Viewers globally are spending many more hours at home with the choice of an infinite amount of personally curated content on-demand, whenever and wherever they want. In turn, the necessity to recalibrate the broadcast experience for content, services and entertainment by a workforce that is also increasingly remote is vital for the modern broadcaster.”
In support of evolving customer requirements, Imagine Communications has added a range of new functionality to its globally deployed Selenio Network Processor (SNP) platform and Magellan SDNO Control System. These new software feature releases […]
Brad Samuels, Damian Riordan and Yvonne Haugh will report to Jeffrey Wolf in overseeing distribution of the national networks on platforms including broadcast, cable, satellite, over-the-top and streaming.
He will now oversee the company’s relationships with OTT distributors and its NextGen TV applications.
Red Bee Media Withdraws From NAB 2020
“With travel restrictions and other safety measures already in place, we now have to get creative and explore alternative ways of connecting with current and potential customers around the globe.”
AMC Networks today announced a comprehensive, long-term distribution agreement with Dish Network and Sling TV that includes continued carriage of AMC Networks’ linear channels AMC, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv and BBC World News, as well as the launch in the coming months of AMC Networks’ targeted SVOD services Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now and Urban Movie Channel; AMC Networks’ ad-free offering AMC Premiere; and its IFC Films Unlimited streaming service.
Viacom and CBS, nearing the completion of their merger, said that Ray Hopkins will serve as president, U.S. network distribution for ViacomCBS. Hopkins has been responsible for helping to drive CBS’s retransmission consent revenue. Tom Gorke, the top distribution at Viacom, is leaving the company.
The religious broadcaster extends its long-term HD and SD North American distribution agreement for another decade.
Former Tribune Media executive Keith Hopkins brings extensive carriage and distribution experience and MVPD relationships to his new role.
Support Growing For SMPTE IP Standard
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers committee at work on a new standard for professional video over IP is nearing the stage where its work can be put to the test. Many are hopeful the SMPTE 2110 standard will deliver what’s needed for the industry to coalesce around an IP protocol that broadcasters and others in the industry can support.
CNN believes that in a platform era, there’s more it can do to get its journalism out there. “We already offer immense value,” says Mitra Kalita, the news network’s VP of digital programming. “What we want to do — very broadly — is to figure out if there’s a new event that happens and people turn to CNN, how do we keep them there. It also means finding new readers in all the places they are. I don’t see content as separate from distribution.
From The IBC Exhibit Floor: Globecast
Globecast | Stand 1.A29 | Website: www.globecast.com Globecast provides agile and seamless content acquisition, management and distribution services globally. The company 12 interconnected facilities, including Los Angeles, London, Singapore, Paris, […]
Former CBS and Cablevision executive Nicholas Radziul joins the television station owner to lead expansion of distribution and puts him in charge of network affiliations and retransmission consent transactions.
