MCN Newswire: Cable Industry Vet Wilt Hildenbrand Dead at 70; Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Acquires The Weather Channel

Multichannel Newswire   March 23, 2018     Today's Top Stories       Cable Industry Vet Wilt Hildenbrand Dead at 70 Engineering pioneer was long-time Cablevision Systems exec READ MORE » WHY THIS MATTERS: During his cable career, Hildenbrand spent about three decades with Cablevision, as its top technology and engineering executive, including many as its executive vice president of technology and engineering.   Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Acquires The Weather Channel Allen adds live cable channel to his Entertainment Studios portfolio READ MORE » WHY THIS MATTERS: The deal, estimated at $300 million according to sources close to the situation, calls for Allen's company Allen Media LLC to purchase the group—which owns The Weather Channel as well as the Local Now streaming service.   Verizon Cloud Video Unit Scores Tennis Channel Deal On board to help network stream matches live and on-demand READ MORE » WHY THIS MATTERS: Financial terms were not announced, but Tennis Channel's streaming of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells earlier this month is linked to the new agreement, which includes VDMS's new Live Event Operations managed service, they said.   More Top Stories       Cable Industry Preps Push to Next-Gen Access Networks, Virtualization Cities File FCC Complaint in Charter/Northwest Carriage Dispute FCC Votes to 'Streamline' Small Cell Deployments Key Communications Provisions Make It on Omnibus Bill Pay TV Stocks Down in Overall Market Slide ACA's Gessner Testifies on FCC Waiver Bill Pandora Nabs Ad Tech Firm for $145M Edge Officially Joins Legal Fight Against FCC Net Rule Rollback Hill Presses Facebook's Zuckerberg to Testify Bill Boosting Auction Repack Funding Passes House more headlines »   Videos/Blogs/Extras       MCN Hot Spot: YouTube's 'Impulse' Premieres This Summer MCN Hot Spot: Netflix's 'House Of Cards' Premieres This Fall The Bauminator, Jeff Baumgartner: Sling TV Brings In-App Upgrades to Roku MCN Guest Blog, Iris.TV's Rohan Castelino: Why AI Is the Smart Play for OTT Freeze Frame: March 19, 2018   Events     Advanced Advertising Summit – Spring Edition March 26, 2018 | New York, NY Learn More Multicultural Television Summit April 3, 2018 | New York, NY Learn More Technology Leadership Awards at NAB April 9, 2018 | Las Vegas, NV Learn More Digital Media Tech Leadership Summit June 5-6, 2018 | Tampa, FL Learn More The Programmatic Summit June 7, 2018 | New York, NY Learn More more events »   Jobs     Executive Producer/Director of TV Public Broadcasting Atlanta, Atlanta, GA   TV Producer/Editor Public Broadcasting Atlanta, Atlanta, GA   Chief Engineer WOOD TV, Grand Rapids, MI   Broadcast Engineer (TV) Public Broadcasting Atlanta – Atlanta, GA, United States   more jobs » News Blogs Events Images Tech   Advertise Contact Us Send this to a friend       ©2018 NewBay Media, LLC

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