B&C Today: CBS's Viacom Bid Below Current Price; ESPN+ Service Sets April 12 Launch

Broadcasting & Cable Newsletter   April 3, 2018     The best of BroadcastingCable.com delivered to your inbox daily     Top Stories       CBS's Viacom Bid Below Current Price: Report Moonves would run combined company READ MORE » WHY THIS MATTERS: CBS plans to make an all-stock offer for Viacom that would value Viacom at less than its current market capitalization, according to a report from Reuters.   ESPN Sets April 12 for Launch of ESPN+ Service Direct-to-consumer product costs $4.99 a month READ MORE » WHY THIS MATTERS: ESPN+ will be integrated into a new ESPN App and will offer live sports from Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the NCAA, Top Rank Boxing, the PGA Tour and Grand Slam Tennis.   21st Century Fox Offers to Sell Sky News to Disney to Satisfy Regulators British politicians opposing bid for Sky READ MORE » WHY THIS MATTERS: The company offered U.K. regulators two remedies to appease their objections: Sell Sky News to Disney or set it up as a distinct company within Sky Group, with its own independent board.   More Top Stories       Sinclair: 'Fake News' Warning Was Simply Quality Differentiator Trump Defends Sinclair Broadcasting 'Roseanne' Renewed by ABC for Another Season Kyra Phillips Joins ABC News Primetime Ratings: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' Helps NBC to Win Michael Kenneth Williams Takes on Juvenile Justice on New Season of 'Vice' Activist Groups Push Edge Privacy Pledge NAB Releases Tools for TV Repack Consumer Messaging CW Renews 'Dynasty,' 'Supergirl', Eight Others TBS Streaming 'Final Space' Game on Facebook Live more headlines »   Blog of Note     How TV Buyers Can Capture the Value of Digital Video By Randy Cooke, SpotX Ads on television, seamlessly woven into studio content cast in full-screen, capture the audience's attention, enabling brands to outright own the largest of screens, thirty seconds at a time. It's not just TV content. It's engagement on the living room screen. READ MORE » more blogs »   Departments       Currency: Data Gives Stations Timely Fix on Programming, Promotion Programming: Dish Drops Univision's Digital Lifestyle Channels Washington: FCC Recruiting Engineering Talent   Events       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     Director of Engineering - Transmissions NET - Nebraska's PBS and NPR Stations, NE   Chief Engineer WFSU Public Media, Tallahassee, FL   Director of Engineering - Network Operation and Distribution NET - Nebraska's PBS and NPR Stations, NE   Chief Engineer WOOD TV, Grand Rapids, MI   more jobs » News Blogs Events People TV Careers   Advertise Contact Us Send this to a friend       ©2018 NewBay Media, LLC

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