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Once again, executives at The E.W. Scripps Company will allow investors and Wall Street analysts to digest the company's quarterly earnings report along with a full dinner and a good night's sleep, as it will release the results on a Thursday afternoon but hold off on the commentary until the following morning.

The nation's largest owner of broadcast television stations — regardless of its "hold separate" situation involving TEGNA — has announced when it will unveil its earnings report for the third quarter. What are analysts expecting to hear from CEO Perry Sook, CFO Lee Ann Gliha and the rest of the Nexstar C-Suite?

Central Pennsylvania's lone NPR member radio station and its PBS-aligned TV station sibling is now under the control of the dominant public media entity serving the Delaware Valley. As such, it has named a new General Manager for the PBS and NPR member stations serving the home of Penn State University.

Sinclair Inc. is teaming up with New Media to bring to light a subscription digital news brand designed to bring reporting from 1,200 of the broadcast television station owner’s local journalists in more than 60 content centers across the U.S. to a national audience.

He's spent the last 28 1/2 years with two ABC Owned Television Stations and is presently the General Manager of The Walt Disney Co.-owned broadcast property serving the Triangle region of North Carolina. At the end of November, this 45-year industry veteran will retire.

To detractors including the TVB, a March 30 Public Notice outlining "lowest unit rate" rules wasn't a "reminder" but served as a policy change, suddenly allowing political action committees to benefit from the LUR rules. Now, both supporters and opponents can share their views on the matter with the Commission.

As Republican FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty sees it, her August 6 decision to vote to repeal the 39% national TV audience reach limit for broadcast television station licensees "recognizes that the media marketplace has changed dramatically, while many of our rules have not."

In a lengthy statement, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said it is time "to restore balance to the broadcast airwaves" and bring back "a healthy counterbalance to the growing leverage of national programmers." He also took great lengths to demonstrate how the FCC has the authority to modify the cap.

The live simulcasts of streaming service DAZN's coverage begin on October 23, with the Pacers game against the Dallas Mavericks appearing on WTTV-TV or WXIN-TV in Indianapolis, the market's home for CBS and FOX programming. A Nexstar spokesperson confirmed that a game schedule is forthcoming.

A federal lawsuit filed against Paramount Skydance Corp. by parents of minor children who streamed content on the Pluto TV FAST channel platform will continue with seven claims the company that on October 6 expects to complete its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery sought to dismiss.  

It's an advancement seen across numerous CBS Owned Stations facilities' newsrooms in recent months, including stations in Boston, Pittsburgh, and Sacramento. Now, the Paramount Global operation branded as "CBS Minnesota" is readying the inclusion of AR/VR technology in its newscasts.

A Houston federal bankruptcy court judge has signed off on a Chapter 11 restructuring plan that will eliminate billions of dollars in debt held by one of the nation's two direct broadcast satellite companies. It resolves a bitter legal battle with a significant number of its lienholders.

Fifteen years after Atlanta lost its second NHL team, Scripps Sports hopes to fill the pro hockey void in Atlanta — at least via territorial broadcast rights. To accomplish that, it has signed a deal to bring the team that calls Bridgestone Arena its home to viewers via a Fox TV Stations property in the South's largest market.

The Gray Media flagship television station that enjoys a broadcast rights agreement with the Atlanta Hawks National Basketball Association club has scored an official broadcast sponsor for its season-long telecasts.

Its licensee name is Ventana Television, but when one takes a closer look at who is involved, they'll find the name of the Associate General Counsel at home shopping brand QVC. He's has signed off on a deal that will deliver a collection of low-power broadcast TV stations to HC2 Broadcasting.