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With retransmission consent impasses involving Standard Media, Cox Media Group and properties operated by Nexstar Media Group via shared services agreements clouding its operations in recent months, DISH Network has priced an offering of its 11.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2027. They'll be issued at a price of 102% of the principal amount.

After more than a month of negotiations that left Hispanic Verizon Fios customers in the dark, the MVPD has agreed to a new retransmission fee agreement with Univision Communications. As a result, all Univision-owned stations have been restored to Fios lineups in all impacted markets.

The "sports-first" live TV streaming platform that has suffered severe erosion in its stock price since October 2021 led by CEO David Gandler and CFO John Janedis will host a conference call to review its fourth quarter and full-year 2022 results one full business day later than previously expected.

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has given its thumbs-up to the Advanced Emergency Alerting (AEA) specification developed by Monroe Electronics as part of the A/331 standard. With the Dec. 6 approval of the A/311 Signaling, Delivery, Synchronization and Error Protection standard, announced Wednesday), AEA is now an official function within the ATSC 3.0 suite of next-generation broadcast transmission standards.

With the passage of the Low Power Protection Act, the LPTV Broadcasters Association, founded by longtime entrepreneur "SuperFrank" Copsidas, was hardly pleased. In its view, the exclusion of dozens and dozens of LPTV facilities resulted from the legislation. Now, the LPTVA is "respectfully requesting" the FCC Media Bureau to implement a change that's actually quite significant.

The most popular series on HBO is coming to an end. But, the network confirmed Thursday that "Game of Thrones" won't return for its eighth and final season until 2019.

The Cogeco Communications subsidiary that is today the No. 8 cable TV service provider in the U.S. has expanded the deployment of its "stream TV" service with its launch this week in four Connecticut cities.

U.S. advertising slipped 3% in December, according to MediaPost, quoting UBS Securities. The downturn is being attributed to a slowdown in the growth of digital media. Overall, fourth quarter 2017 was up 1% over the same period a year ago.

The company formerly known as Luken Communications, today doing business as Get After It Media, is expanding the distribution of a group of digital multicast networks it owns by adding a low-power TV station serving Indianapolis.

 On the afternoon of Oct. 19, 2017, the MyNetworkTV affiliate serving the state of Hawaii suddenly faded to black for DirecTV subscribers across the state. The station — KFVE-9 in Honolulu — still hasn’t returned to the lineup. On Oct. 20, a "Good Faith Negotiation Complaint" against DirecTV was filed by KFVE's licensee with the FCC's Media Bureau. A decision arrived Monday morning, Hawaiian time, and KFVE GM John L. Fink won't be happy.

For nearly three decades, he attracted audiences to "The 10 O'Clock News" at WNYW-5 in New York, the Fox Television Stations-owned East Coast flagship station that was once a key Metromedia property with the WNEW-TV calls.  Now, New Yorkers are paying tribute to John Roland, who died Sunday at the age of 81.

Confusion over the fate of Tribune Media's WGN-9 in Chicago was further resolved Wednesday evening, after it was confirmed that the station will not be placed in a newly created divestiture trust administered by RAFAMEDIA LLC. Rather, it will be sold outright by Tribune — but Sinclair will still run it. The same can be said for WPIX-11 in New York.

It has been the subject of ratings declines among television industry observers ever since it parted ways with Tucker Carlson. But, does FOX News Channel have a plan to, at the very least, attract audiences on weekend evenings?

Capital Broadcasting Co. and its NBC affiliate in Raleigh-Durham, WRAL-5, have been at the forefront of the roll-out of the next generation broadcast TV standard — ATSC 3.0. Much of these efforts can be tied to Steven D. Hammel, VP/GM of WRAL and FOX affiliated sibling WRAZ-50 in North Carolina's Triangle region. Hammel will now have more time to enjoy watching ATSC 3.0 broadcasts come Q4 2018, as he told staff on Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the year.

The final step required for a parliamentary bill to become law has come for the controversial "Online News Act" in Canada, requiring "the largest digital platforms to bargain fairly with Canadian news businesses for the use of their news content on their services."