TV/Cable News

For the past 16 years, he has held nearly every position within the newsroom at a variety of different stations, starting out as a multimedia journalist, photographer, editor, investigative unit member, and helicopter photojournalist, and later serving as anchor and reporter. Meet the new VP of News for KOVR-TV and KMAX-TV.

A pair of distribution agreements are now in place that will "significantly expand" access for Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball club fans as the 2026 season begins in just eight days. It involves the joint venture between the team and Sinclair Inc.

On March 12, RBR+TVBR reported that Scripps and digital financial services company Ally are teaming to present the first nationally televised Professional Women’s Hockey League game. Now, the PWHL and Scripps Sports have a deal in hand to bring the league's championship series to broadcast TV in the U.S.

A new leadership structure has been unveiled for Disney Entertainment, one that unites Disney's streaming, film and television business along with its increasingly important games and digital entertainment arm.  The result? The woman leading ABC News and the ABC Owned Television Stations is getting a promotion.

He has served as President/GM of Hearst Television's CBS affiliate in Kentucky's largest market since 2008. In just a few months, he'll be concluding a career that spans four decades — most of them with the privately held broadcasting company that's owned this station since 1998.

The national broadcaster of South Korea has reached an agreement with a key partner in the development and rollout of ATSC 3.0 technology that will see the distribution of its Korean-language programming to roughly 30 million U.S. households through a new channel.

In twin announcements, TV ad firm Simulmedia has plucked a Chief Commercial Officer from iHeartMedia. Concurrently, Simulmedia is appointing a SVP/GM for what the company calls "the industry’s first self-serve platform designed to give brands and agencies direct, friction-free access to converged TV."

Nearly three years after the U.S. Department of Justice sued the founder of Adell Broadcasting over a multimillion claim linked to alleged unpaid gift tax liabilities, a settlement is on the way, court documents confirm.

The digital cable TV station for Temple University has a new way to bring student-produced programming to viewers not only across the Delaware Valley, but anywhere they may have access to a local TV station's Connected TV streaming app. It's thanks to a partnership between the school and Nexstar Media Group.

OpenX Technologies Inc., an omnichannel supply-side platform, has brought to market what it hails as "a first-to-market capability" giving advertisers the ability to easily target "high-attention" Connected TV inventory in real time. Connected TV-focused TVision helped bring the service to fruition.

With a hand from WPP Media to help facilitate and negotiate the partnership, The E.W. Scripps Co.'s unit led by Brian Lawlor and digital financial services company Ally have come together to present the first nationally televised Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) game.

Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), in partnership with fire safety brand Kidde and Epic Entertainment and Media Group, has set a premiere date for a new original series airing weekend mornings on ABC stations nationwide as part of the Weekend Adventure educational/informational programming block.

The Atlanta-headquartered station group will air 51 Stripers home games on Peachtree Sports Network in Georgia. Select games will also air on Palmetto Sports & Entertainment in northeastern Georgia and the western Carolinas.

RBR+TVBR's Editor-in-Chief discusses with Ribeye Media Chief Growth Officer Jennifer Scilabro how the ad-tech platform powering more than 100 local television stations helps them in monetizing their digital and streaming offerings through unified spot sales. It's all here in this 20-minute video report.

HBCU GO, the Allen Media Group-owned free-streaming digital platform that focuses on sports and culture linked to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) sports and culture, has entered into a partnership with "the nation's largest and most effective education organization for underrepresented students."