MCN Newswire: CableLabs Boots Up 4K Video-Sharing Website; Big Ten Network Lifts Sub Base To 60 Million; WWE Pins Down Summerslam Marketing Plans
Top Stories - August 14, 2014
CableLabs Boots Up 4K Video-Sharing Website CableLabs has launched a 4K-focused microsite that provides access to Ultra HD/4K video clips to help platform developers, vendors, network operators and other video pros conduct tests with the emerging eye-popping format. more
Big Ten Network Lifts Sub Base to 60 Million The conference's addition of Maryland and Rutgers has generated upgraded positioning on a number of providers. more
WWE Pins Down Summerslam Marketing Plans The WWE is hoping to expand the audience for its Aug. 17 SummerSlam pay-per-view event through the recent launch of its WWE Network over-the-top digital service to more than 170 countries around the globe, according to company officials.more
T-Mobile Challenges FCC Incentive Auction Proposal T-Mobile has asked the FCC to reserve more low-band spectrum for companies competing with Verizon and AT&T for wireless spectrum in the upcoming broadcast incentive auction, arguing that the current system does not insure the four competitive carriers the FCC has signaled it would like to see.more
Fox, CBS Affils Warn FCC Against Removing Sports Rule Fox and CBS affiliates warn that the FCC could be in danger of balkanizing sports programming and driving it to "increasingly expensive pay cable networks," according to a copy of the letter. more