NCTA, the Internet & Television Association, has joined technology and advertising organisation to push back on US President Donald Trump’s executive order on “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping,” saying it should be dropped. In the September order, Trump called it a “pernicious and false belief” that the country is “an irredeemably racist and sexist country,” […]
FOX News Channel’s (FNC) coverage of the debate between incumbent Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris set a record for the highest-rated US vice presidential debate in the country’s cable news history, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. FNC’s coverage averaged 11,315,000 in total viewers and 2,905,000 in A25-54, […]
BritBox has ordered a second season of Spitting Image that will air in autumn 2021. The satirical puppet show returned to UK screens on October 3rd as the first BritBox original, and received critical acclaim; new subscribers for BritBox increased ten-fold compared to the average daily rate for the BBC and ITV created streaming platform. […]
FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly has confirmed that he will step down from his role when his term is up, and has made clear that he is not seeking any support in staying in the job. His time is up either in January or should a replacement be appointed, whichever is the sooner. O’Rielly is a […]
A new Borat movie is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on October 23rd in 240 countries. The movie is a sequel to 2006’s Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan which was a global hit, taking over $260 million at the box office. The new movie is titled […]
Video-sharing app TikTok has avoided a government-ordered block on new downloads in the US after a judge issued a temporary injunction. The popular social media app had faced being removed from Apple’s App Store and Android’s Google Play marketplace, although existing US-based users would have been able to have continued using it. Judge Carl Nichols […]
TikTok has said it will separate itself from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and become an independent entity called TikTok Global – with Oracle and Walmart both taking minority stakes. In a deal that US President Donald Trump gave his blessing to over the weekend, US multi-tech company Oracle would become TikTok’s new cloud provider, […]
TikTok will be banned from US app stores from September 20th, unless a last minute compromise is agreed with president Donald Trump. Owner Bytedance had previously been given a September 15th deadline to find a buyer for its US operations. The Department of Commerce said it would bar people in the US from downloading the […]
Qatar-based news broadcaster Al Jazeera has been obliged to register its online digital news service AJ+ as a “foreign agent” by the US Department of Justice (DoJ). It means that AJ+ is now subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The DoJ, in a letter to the Al Jazeera Media Network, alleges the broadcaster […]
TikTok has until September 15th to find an American buyer for its US operations, and that will not change. “There will be no extension of the TikTok deadline,” US President Donald Trump stated. Trump has previously given ByteDance, the Chinese owner of the video-sharing app, 45 days to sell it. If ByteDance doesn’t sell the […]