MCN Newswire: C-SPAN Moving To Authenticated TV Streaming; 'Sharknado' Season; Mergers Set Stage For Franken Moment
Top Stories - July 29, 2014
C-SPAN Moving To Authenticated TV Streaming C-SPAN is launching a beta test of its migration of live online feeds of its TV channels -- C-SPANs 1, 2 and 3 -- to an authentication model starting today (July 28), employing the TV Everywhere model of the multichannel video programming distributors that support the public-affairs programmer. more
Sharknado' Season A look behind the science of making low-budget monster hits.more
Mergers Set Stage For Franken Moment TV comedian-turned-Senator sees media consolidation as serious business. Al Franken speaks to Washington bureau chief John Eggerton in an expansive Q&A. more
ACA Elects Gessner Chairman Robert Gessner, president of MCTV, the renamed Massillon Cable TV, has been elected to a two-year term as chairman of the American Cable Association.more
NCTC Unveils New Logo The National Cable Television Cooperative, the buying group representing more than 950 mostly small- and medium-sized operators across the country, unveiled a new logo at its annual members meeting in Kansas City Monday.more
Small Cable Eye Ways to Unload Old TV Service A growing number of small and independent cable operators are preparing to get rid of the very product that once drew customers to their business: TV programming. more