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Jan. 11, 2021 6:15 pm ET Fox News and CNN announced substantial changes to their lineups Monday, as cable news channels look to capitalize on continued viewer interest in politics two months after the presidential election. Fox said it is expanding its opinion programming into the 7 p.m. hour with “Fox News Primetime,” a show that will feature a rotating group of opinion hosts. It will replace “The Story,” a news program anchored by Martha MacCallum. CNN is adding another hour f...

The licenses up for grabs—in the so-called C-Band—cover about 280 megahertz of spectrum falling between 3.3 GHz and 4.2 GHz. That counts as mid-band spectrum, which offers an attractive trade-off between connection speed and range. Higher-frequency signals allow for faster connectivity, but don’t travel far from an antenna. Low-band spectrum has the opposite trade-off: It allows carriers to blanket a large geographic area with service from relatively few antennas, but without the lightnin...

Jan. 11, 2021 6:00 am ET TV network group OpenAP is updating its technology to let advertisers see the commercial time that is available from its members, making its system more closely resemble digital ad platforms. The organization, whose members include competitors such as Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal, Fox Corp.’s Fox and ViacomCBS Inc., has been working to build a system that automates and improves the antiquated trading process for TV ad bu...

‘The Undoing’ Star Noma Dumezweni on the Most Pivotal Year of Her Career The highly decorated British stage actor crossed over to American screens with HBO’s ‘The Undoing.’ It’s the start of a very big year “At 51, I’m a newbie again,” says actor Noma Dumezweni, shown in Proenza Schouler. Photo: ILLUSTRATION BY BRITT BERGER By In WSJ. Magazine ’s series “12 for ’21,” we highlight a dozen of the m...