TV/Cable News

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.

For the last five years, Gerry McGavick has led revenue-generation efforts across the company’s television platforms and served as Hearst Television’s primary liaison with the agency community, national sales representation firms and other sales partners. Since 2017, he has supervised the company’s political advertising sales.

She's well-known as the "retired" Sr. VP and General Manager of the FOX Broadcasting Stations duo serving the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose market. Now, she's returning to a role in which she will have day-to-day oversight of three broadcast properties across two Florida markets operating under the TEGNA banner.

The latest look at the top brands investing in spot television, and spot cable, has been released by RCS's Media Monitors unit. For the week ending October 25, the activity at national broadcast television was squarely focused on two key categories: Pharma, and accident attorney giant Morgan & Morgan.

A privately held media company with a dominant presence in Oklahoma is ready to expand on a fresh partnership announced in late August with the NBA team that has literally transformed a sleepy Plains metropolis into one of the most under-the-radar business and tourism destinations in the U.S.

The 2026 NBA Western Conference Champions, led by Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle, have just scored a new broadcast television partnership that will bring the team's basketball games to the Sinclair Inc.-owned home of The CW Network in the Alamo City for the remainder of the 2026-2027 season.

“Stan Herriott has brought his authentic self to his role with us. He’s a good broadcaster, and a good person,” said Hearst Television President Michael J Hayes. “In addition to his financial acumen, he has helped us build our team and attracted next generation talent to our organization.”

Many of the stations transferred to Parkin’s Rincon Broadcasting Group are being spun. In Tulsa, one property is going to Sinclair — because it now can do so.

Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), in partnership with Kidde, and producer Epic Entertainment and Media Group, have cleared a second-season renewal of "Home for Good" — an education/information series focused on home-and-life safety education seen on ABC Television Network stations each Saturday.