Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Peacock Adds In-Market NBC Sports RSN Streaming

Peacock is now offering in-market streaming of the NBC Sports Regional Networks as an add-on subscription option, providing paid Peacock OTT platform consumers with direct access to NBC Sports Bay Area, NBC Sports Boston, NBC Sports California or NBC Sports Philadelphia.
Carrie Legner

Legner Takes A Key Sales Role At Audiohook

Audiohook is growing its sales force, and it has just hired an Austin-based sales veteran who most formerly served as Director of Performance Marketing for Victory Home Remodeling and is a 2009 graduate of the University of North Texas who holds a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Studies.
John Treviño

John Treviño Trades Texas For Cleveland At TEGNA

It's been what he calls "an incredible journey" working at a pair of television stations serving the Beaumont-Port Arthur, Tex., market, to the east of Houston. Come March 24, he'll be leading the NBC affiliate in Cleveland owned by TEGNA.

Tightrope Launches MediaScribe Caption and Translation Service

Designed to make meetings more accessible, MediaScribe offers real-time text transcriptions and translations that can be displayed on dedicated on-premise displays, personal mobile devices, and cable channels.

Former Radio Station Owner’s Son Feared Dead In Alaska Avalanche

The incident occurred Tuesday, claiming the life of John David Linder. Linder’s father John Linder, who is deceased, in 2010 was involved in a transaction with Randy Michaels’ Radioactive LLC. The younger Linder was skiing with three men when the avalanche began.
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Cumulus Stock Slump Continues On Tuesday

The company led by CEO Mary Berner has experienced a significant decline in its share value since March began. On Tuesday, the decline continued, sending "CMLS" down to a fresh post-bankruptcy low. Nasdaq could be eye a minimum trade delinquency, should trends not reverse soon.
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New York Post’s ‘Page Six’ To Get SiriusXM Morning Show

SiriusXM is expanding its entertainment lineup with the launch of Page Six Radio, a new daily morning show bringing the latest pop culture news from the New York Post’s famous Page Six celebrity news and gossip section to the airwaves.

A Regional Podcasting Hub In Qatar, Powered By iHeart

The company that boasts it is the parent to the largest podcast network in the world has signed a multi-year partnership with the government of Qatar, in the Middle East, with the intent of creating "a thriving podcasting industry" in the region and in nearby North Africa.
Hilton Howell Jr., Gray Television co-CEO

Gray Media: Assembling A Strong NTR Generator

A 10pm Sunday premiere of a NBC prime-time series and a daytime serial debuting from CBS. What do they have to do with Gray Media? A lot, and that's what CEO Hilton Howell Jr. sought to stress as the publicly traded company's nontraditional revenue is about to jump in a way that differs from its peers.
TEGNA CEO Mike Steib

The Future For TEGNA: Buyer or Seller?

As CEO Mike Steib and CFO Julie Heskett see it, TEGNA's financial strength and "disciplined execution" make it a standout broadcast television station owner, one ripe for growth and the right M&E activity as it nevertheless anticipates total Q1 2025 revenue to decline between 4% and 7%. As such, is TEGNA a buyer or seller?
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CPB Questions Lack of Access To NGWS Grant Dollars

In an e-mail, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Chief Financial Officer confirmed that the organization that supports NPR and PBS stations across the U.S. "does not have access to funds" linked to a Next-Generation Warning System (NGWS) grant. What does this mean? CPB is seeking an answer.

A FOX Fight Continues, With MAD Appeal

The FCC's Media Bureau, just days before President Biden left office, dismissed a Petition to Deny the license renewal of a FOX Television Stations property on the grounds that it aired content during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election cycle it believes is false and misleading. The petitioners are appealing that decision.

Fubo Targets South Asian Consumers With Zee Pack

The "sports-first" virtual MVPD that will combine with Hulu + Live TV once its proposed acquisition by The Walt Disney Co. wins regulatory approval has launched multicultural content bundles intended to super-serve domestic consumers with international programming. The first bundle targets South Asians.

Broadcast TV: Still Tops for Reach and Time Spent

The leading trade association advocating for the nation's local broadcast TV industry has released a new study investigating multimedia usage and effectiveness. The top finding? TV, viewed on the TV screen, has the highest reach and time spent of all media platforms studied, for all age groups and categories measured.

YouTube TV Could Lose CBS, Paramount Networks In Carriage War

Consumers reliant on YouTube TV to view their favorite cable television channels from Paramount Global and most of the company's CBS News and Stations properties across the nation's largest markets could be in the dark come Friday morning. That's thanks to what is shaping up to be the latest retransmission consent flap.