Legacy

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gray Media will broadcast Super Bowl LIX using High Dynamic Range (HDR) on all of the company's FOX-affiliated television stations available via the ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV digital broadcast standard.

The 2025 Medallas de Cortez award nominations are now open. The highly coveted awards will be presented at the 16th Hispanic Radio Conference, June 11-12 in Houston. Now is the opportunity for YOU to nominate the shining stars in the Hispanic radio industry.

On its face, the fiscal Q1 2025 results from the parent of ABC Owned Stations looks great. The company beat the estimates of analysts who chimed in on both revenue and Earnings Per Share. However, a notable decline in the number of streaming subscribers caught investors' attention, sending "DIS" down more than 2% on Wednesday.

How much is acclaimed author turned radio station owner Stephen King's group pocketing from the sale of an AM/FM combo and an FM translator serving Bangor, Me. — properties he shut down at the end of 2024 due to financial reasons? We now know the answer.

That's the somewhat skewed look at video consumption presented in a new report from Statista, which also shows robust consumption of digital videos during the same 12-month period.

So much for an impasse: Paramount has licensed new Nielsen services including Advanced Audiences, Big Data + Panel, Ad-Supported Streaming Platform Ratings, Nielsen ONE Ads for Connected Television, and National OOH expansion to inform advertising, programming and licensing strategies.

The junior Democrat serving as a FCC Commissioner has criticized the newly installed Republican leadership under the Trump Administration for its decision to fully pursue a complaint brought against one of the "Big Four" networks for apparent manipulation of a pre-election interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Curtis Media Group President/COO Trip Savery is welcoming a radio industry veteran who has joined the privately held North Carolina broadcasting company to lead its four FMs in Raleigh-Durham, as well as its digital sales enterprise and vehicular traffic network.