Monday, May 18, 2026

The State of LPTV

The low power television community is facing existential challenges
Rocco Commisso

Mediacom Exec Wants a Retrans Intervention

Mediacom’s Rocco Commisso has written to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
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Premium Price for Out-of-Market Trio

The best this Nebraska trio can do is get secondary contours into rated territory
Deal

June Trading: Crickets

Just about any way the data is sliced, June is in last place

Foolish Take on a Viewing Study

Motley Fool thinks that any television executive looking at trends in viewing device usage

Going, Going but Not Yet Gone

Since we last took a census of the Radio Disney radio stations for sale shelf
Greece Flag

Pay No Attention to that Country Behind the Curtain

The tenuous situation in Greece, and its implications for the entire Eurozone
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Colorado Quartet Changing Religions

You don’t see on like this every day
AT&T

AT&T/DirecTV Closing In on Merger OK

DOJ is said to be cool with the plans of telecom giant AT&T and satellite MVPD DirecTV
LPTV

LPTV? What LPTV?

FAB asserts that if the FCC and contractor Greenhill did not consider the impact of the incentive auction
Preston Padden

EOBC Takes Aim at Economic Jiggery-Pokery

EOBC is doing its level best to make sure
Emmis Communications

Emmis Beats Back Preferred Owners

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has handed a big win to Emmis

An Analyst-Eye View of Washington

Macquerie Capital’s Amy Yong sees the broadcasting and communications fields through a financial prism
Univision Communications, Inc.

Univision Files to Go Public

If all goes according to plan, it will soon be possible to buy a piece

Gray and the Art of Creative Deal-making

The television group that is arguably the least worked up about the incentive auction