Streaming Hits An All-Time High In January
How important are AVOD, OTT and FAST Channels to broadcast TV? The latest data from The Gauge, Nielsen's total TV and streaming snapshot, show that streaming reached an all-time high in first month of 2022, while overall television usage increased 8%. Combined, a powerful metric for broadcast TV emerges.
A Centennial Celebration for a New York AM
From a studio on a high floor atop the Bamberger's building in Newark, WOR-AM signed on the air on Feb. 22, 1922. Today, it is stronger than ever, and serves as the spoken word East Coast flagship of the iHeartMedia family, which is readying plans for the station's 100th birthday celebration.
Shares Tumble On Wall St. as Final ViacomCBS Quarter Underwhelms
ViacomCBS is no more, and will now be known as Paramount. Investors may be nonplussed by the move, which in some ways puts the entire company's future on the present-day push for the Paramount+ OTT platform and a movie studio that in the not-so-distant past has seen its fair share of financial struggles.
‘Con Prende,’ TelevisaUnivision Unveils New OTT Platform
To those closely following the evolution of Univision under CEO Wade Davis, it is hardly a surprise. It's the name of the company Univision acquired in February 2021, and it's a video on demand entity with a pre-existing footprint stretching from the U.S. through Latin America.
Does An FM Faced With Death Have A Second Equity Holder?
Convicted felon Roger Wahl could see the license cancellation and call letter deletion of his 630-watt FM radio station atop Mt. Hunsrick, serving Somerset County, Pa., following a Hearing Designation Order and subsequent FCC Commissioner vote. But, there's a new plot line straight out of a soap opera: it now appears that a long-lost equity holder in the FM has emerged — or so the person alleges.
Office Building, Apartment Tenants To Get Broadband Choice
It's a move the FCC made on Tuesday that could end favored-nation status for MVPDs who have exclusivity in such locales, bringing a major change in the dynamic of residential HOAs, office building management and apartment complex owners.
Sinclair’s ‘News Reporter Academy’ Returns For College Students
In the three-hour interactive session, students will learn the basics of news reporting and investigative storytelling, managing a social media presence, how to look and sound their best on-camera and how to package a resume and reel.
Meet Saga Communications’ Newest Institutional Investor
He's the founder and Portfolio Manager of a Chicago-area investment house focused on "micro-cap value equities." According to his LinkedIn profile, its portfolio "is constructed through [an] in-depth, fundamental research process focused on the potential risk and return of each investment." Among the companies that part of his portfolio: Saga.
A Problematic Personal TV Antenna Yields FCC Fine Warning
A Western N.Y. homeowner could be faced with "significant fines" of up to exactly $22,021 per day for what the Enforcement Bureau says is harmful interference to a Commission licensee's LTE communications, and the resident's refusal to allow a Bureau Agent to inspect the premises to identify the source of the interference — believed to be a TV antenna.
With Hours Before ‘Big Game’, TEGNA and Mediacom Ink Retrans Deal
With roughly four hours to go before NBC's coverage of Super Bowl LVI was to begin, Mediacom cable TV service subscribers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul DMA, Arizona's Prescott Valley region, and the home of the NFC Champions from 1994-2015 have regained the opportunity to watch the "Big Game" without having to resort to "rabbit ears" or other alternatives.
Despite Quarterly Dividend Call, Nielsen Stock Hits New Low
Some companies do it to award shareholders. Others to it to attract them. For Nielsen, the latter appears to be the incorrect response from Wall Street of the decision by its Board of Directors to declare a quarterly cash dividend.
Price Details Emerge In WPYO, WSUN Sale
With two former Cox Media Group FMs now set to become Spanish-language properties in a pair of hot growth markets, the only remaining question until now involved the value of the deal. We now have an answer.
A Global ‘Radio’ Market Report, Inclusive Of Sirius XM
Few, if any, in the radio business would lump Sirius XM alongside the likes of iHeartMedia, Audacy Inc., and Cumulus Media. Yet, a newly released market research report that looks at "radio" on a global scale has.
Confirmed: SBS To Purchase Orlando ‘Party’ and Tampa’s ’97X’
Spanish Broadcasting System has emerged victorious as the buyer of Rhythmic Top 40 WPYO-FM 95.3 in Maitland, Fla., serving the Orlando market, and Alternative WSUN-FM 97.1 in Holiday, Fla., serving the Tampa Bay region. Executives at SBS and Cox Media Group and broker Elliot Evers offered comments on the deal.
Disney’s Fiscal Q1 Results Are Here. Investors Are Happy
The Walt Disney Co.'s fiscal first quarter of 2022 ended on January 1. How did the company do in its first three months of the fiscal year? As CEO Bob Chapek sees it, "We’ve had a very strong start to the fiscal year." Thank Encanto and a rise in streaming portfolio subscriptions for that positive news. The company's linear networks saw lackluster results.