TV/Cable News

“Our hearts go out to everyone impacted by these devastating wildfires," said Rob Weisbord, COO and President of Local Media at the broadcast media company. "Sinclair is committed to supporting the communities we serve, especially in times of need."

Appointments to the SpinCo leadership team include seven individuals who will take roles at an independent publicly traded media company comprised of USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel.

Direct broadcast satellite service DirecTV has joined EchoStar in raising concerns about the recently announced dismissal of Fubo’s claims against Venu and its shareholders and the lifting of the preliminary injunction that blocked the launch of Venu pending a full review of the claims against it.

On July 1 of last year, Gray Media acquired the construction permit for a new full-power television station licensed to the seat of Carbon County, Utah, a small city to the southeast of Provo. Now, in a bid to improve its signal contour, Gray is asking the Media Bureau's Video Division to allow it to shift from a VHF channel to a UHF facility.

Shawn Oswald's successor has been revealed at the Hearst Television ABC affiliate serving Omaha and Council Bluffs. It is the woman presently serving as News Director of a Des Moines TV station. And, it brings a female leader back to KETV, once-led by Ariel Roblin.

Run3TV enables broadcasters in a NEXTGEN TV world an interface mimicking a station's digital app home screen. It has been covered by RBR+TVBR extensively since its April 2022 launch, but has seen slow growth as stations voluntarily adopt the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. Run3TV has now taken a significant step toward streamlining its implementation.

The nation's largest broadcast television group by station count has inked a "comprehensive multi-year agreement" that sees all of its NBC Television Network affiliations stay in place.

The news organization associated with the main NPR spoken word-focused member station serving Southern California is teaming up with CBS News & Stations' two Los Angeles broadcast TV stations, forging a partnership designed to "significantly enhance local news coverage" for consumers.

Video consumption will continue to transition from traditional pay TV networks to streaming platforms in 2025, which will pressure linear TV networks in the U.S. That's a key finding from Seth Shafer, Senior Research Analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, offered in a 2025 Trends in Global Media report.

Xperi Corp.'s television-focused consumer brand TiVo will be "entering" the U.S. television market, thanks to a continued expansion of smart TVs powered by TiVo with Sharp Home Electronics Company of America.

With Dan Gilbert's Rocket Money brand rocketing to the top of the Spot Ten Cable report for the first week of 2025, a popular QSR has started the year with a fresh campaign that puts it in the list along with only one other quick-service restaurant brand.

The individual who since 2006 has served as the Creative Services Director at Hearst Television's flagship station in Boston has been promoted to the executive position of VP/Marketing for the New York-headquartered broadcast TV entity. He succeeds Suzanne Grethen, who recently retired as SVP of Promotion and Marketing.

He was the VP/GM of the CBS affiliate in Charlotte from 2015 to 2022 and has also been in National Sales at ABC and at such stations as WABC-TV in New York, in addition to serving as CEO of a Florida-based homebuilder. Now, he's taking the top local leadership role for TEGNA's CBS affiliate serving Columbia, S.C.

It's a new deal that extends the life of the company's affiliation with NBC at 11 Scripps-owned stations. In related news, Scripps Networks' VP of Brand Strategy has been promoted to Sr. Vice President of Marketing for the national arm of The E.W. Scripps Co.

An NBC affiliate that was launched by Pulitzer as a sibling to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that has been associated with TEGNA since its days as Gannett and Combined Communications Corp., which purchased the station in 1979, is preparing to leave downtown St. Louis and sell its home of 40 years.