By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 8-11-22 Cable operators are telling the FCC that it should continue to require broadcasters transitioning to ATSC 3.0 to deliver a signal in the current ATSC 1.0 standard, and that the programming on that signal must still be substantially similar to their ATSC 3.0 signal. The FCC sought input [...]
FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington Will Be Featured Speaker at Oct. 19 Virtual EventFOR RELEASE: August 5, 2022Contact: Richard T. KaplarThe Media Institute703-506-8030Vienna, Va., August 5, 2022 – The Media Institute will honor Lester Holt, anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” and anchor of “Dateline NBC,” and renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns at its [...]
By Sadirah Pathan, Contributor, Parks Associates Consumer expectations of personalized experiences and discovery are higher than ever, with video services and entertainment devices providing user-specific interfaces, search results, viewing recommendations, and advertising. As video services and aggregators grapple with greater personalization and discovery across content sources, the impact of these challenges has major ramifications for services. [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-29-22 FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel says she is all for the Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act, which would reclassify Internet access as a Title II telecommunications service and return the FCC’s authority to impose net neutrality rules. That authority went away in 2017 when the FCC under then [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-19-22 A comprehensive data privacy bill that would, among many other things, allow web users to opt out of targeted advertising – and ban ads aimed at children entirely – was heading to a markup July 20 in the House Energy & Commerce Committee. The bipartisan American Data Privacy [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-18-22 Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are introducing a bill that would reclassify Internet service providers under Title II of the Communications Act’s mandatory access regulations and pave the way for a possible return of network neutrality rules. That is according to someone who has seen [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-5-22 Legislators from both sides of the aisle – Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) – have teamed up to urge the Federal Trade Commission to investigate over-the-top video clip streaming site TikTok based on reports that suggest the Chinese-based company is not insulated from the Chinese [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 7-5-22 The Federal Communications Commission is asking for input by Aug. 16 on its congressional mandate to coordinate tens of billions of dollars of government money in various broadband subsidy programs with the National Telecommunications & Information Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The NTIA, the White House’s [...]
By Sadirah Pathan, Public Relations, Parks Associates Today's streaming landscape is one where consumers face a variety of competing OTT services and an often-overwhelming amount of content. The ease and temptation of switching services in this environment makes churn an inherent problem for OTT services. Services today are challenged to drive a consistently high level [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 6-23-22 Congress took another step June 23 in its years-long process of trying to come up with a bipartisan comprehensive federal data-privacy law, a measure both Democrats and Republicans have said is needed in an online world of ubiquitous movement and use of data. That step came in a [...]