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For eleven years, he has served as President/GM of KENS-TV in Austin, joining the TEGNA-owned CBS affiliate after a role as Director of Sales for ABC-affiliated sibling WFAA-TV in Dallas. Now, he's adding similar responsibilities for TEGNA's ABC affiliate in Texas' state capital.

Tune to a MVPD-distributed channel, and there's a very good chance you'll see two distinct spots. One is designed to tackle what Cubans call "la gripa" — and it is going around, big time. The other is designed to woo consumers from clothing resale sites including Poshmark.

A three-year court battle between Nexstar Media Group and DirecTV over alleged antitrust activities associated with a failed retransmission consent agreement is far from over. And, lawyers representing the DBS service provider are running out of patience with the TV station ownership giant over a discovery tiff.

For 13 years, search owned local advertising. Not anymore. Borrell Associates says streaming video is now the biggest category in the market, while broadcast TV is projected to fall by single digits this year, even as a wave of advertisers who never bought a spot go straight to video.

Shae Hopkins, who rose from a temporary pledge production job to the top post at Kentucky Educational Television, has died. Public television leaders are remembering the 40-year KET veteran, who had planned to retire at the end of this year after nearly 17 years leading the network.

FOX’s television business carried the company to a record fiscal first quarter, with the World Cup, a busy political calendar, and Tubi’s growth lifting broadcast advertising. The gains pushed company revenue and EBITDA to first-quarter highs and left the Television segment far ahead of last year.

Three Boston TV employees who hauled cameras and live gear ahead of a blizzard get to make their case that the prep was paid work. A federal judge says the clock may start earlier than WHDH-TV believes, and most of the suit survives.

A SportsCenter anchor with more than three decades of credits is getting the Alliance for Women in Media’s Gracies Icon Award. ESPN’s Hannah Storm will be among those honored at the Gracies Leadership Awards on November 16 at Tribeca 360° in New York City.

Cogeco’s US cable business is still losing customers, and the company’s answer now includes a TV streaming product launched in the US, along with wireless, a new digital brand, and new sales channels. Canada is growing, while its radio group saw revenue fall nearly 19%, and the fiscal 2027 outlook points to lower overall.

Stating that defendants “likely used public dollars to unlawfully finance a national media campaign in the final weeks before the November 2026 elections,” US District Judge Loren L. AliKhan has frozen a $20 million government ad campaign that put campaign-style spots on national TV, but her decision is raising questions for those that carried the spots.

TelevisaUnivision’s third quarter ran on two tracks: a World Cup-fueled 51% revenue jump in Mexico, and a 24% drop in US advertising, with a $372 million write-down on broadcast licenses tipping the company into an operating loss despite a 9% gain in total revenue.

Nasdaq-traded Comcast spinoff Versant on Wednesday brought to life a quartet of free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels tied to "past franchises" from CNBC, Oxygen and E!. This grows Versant's FAST portfolio to 13, and brings the offerings to Amazon Prime Video and, as of November 3, The Roku Channel.

It's another local market appointment for an entity that is doing all that it can to demonstrate that it is a wholly separate organ from its parent, Nexstar Media Group. With 30 years of experience, there's a new President/GM in place at TEGNA's NBC affiliate in Charlotte, and for its CBS-affiliated sibling in Greensboro, N.C.

He joined Cox Media Group in 2018 and today leads sales efforts across WSOC-9, WAXN-64, "Telemundo Charlotte" and Local Solutions Digital for the company in North Carolina's largest market. Now, CMG is ready to conduct a search for his successor that will include internal and external candidates. Tim Perry is retiring.

Deltatre, known for its streaming, digital, data and graphics technology products used by sports, media and entertainment organizations, has finalized a multi-year partnership extension with the NBA's Dallas Mavericks to provide the technology behind the pro basketball team’s now officially rebranded OTT service.