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There's upward momentum this week at Spot TV for a venerable QSR brand that revolutionized hamburger consumption with "Speedy" and then brought in the kids with the clown named "Ronald." It's welcome news from the Golden Arches — especially after it cancelled its global FIFA World Cup participation after the 2026 North American affair.

He's been the Director of Engineering at WCVB-5, the flagship station of Hearst Television, since 2023. Now, he's being promoted to a company-wide role as Regional Director of Engineering, spreading his knowledge base to other properties within the Hearst family.

In the summer of 2024, Meruelo Media agreed to a $30 million transaction that saw the broadcast TV station formerly known as KWHY-22 in Los Angeles become the flagship broadcast property for Scientology Media Productions. Now, The Church of Scientology seeks to expand its reach with a Florida station. The broker of record: Kalil & Co.

The "successful completion" of the acquisition of Roku Inc. by Fox Corporation has come, and as such the parent of Fox Television Stations believes it has entered "a new transformational era – creating an innovative scaled media and technology company with superior reach, engagement and monetization capabilities."

It served as the affiliate of The CW Network in Nashville until September 2021, when it shifted to the DT2 signal associated with Sinclair Inc.'s FOX affiliate in the market. Now, the company seeks to buy that former home for the CW outright, converting a longtime shared services agreement in place with the station's owner.

Graham Holding Co. has released its consolidated third quarter 2026 earnings report, and the company's broadcast television ownership group performed strongly during the three-month period. Revenue climbed by 19%, while expenses were trimmed by 2%. 

Legacy silos are no longer sustainable in a fragmented landscape. As such, merging back-end operations so that TV, radio and AI are interlinked is underway. What are the best practices and key learning lessons seen with this unity? A Forecast conference session that includes a Graham Media Group Tech VP tackles these matters.

He's served as President/GM of Hearst Television's ABC affiliate serving Oklahoma's capital city since 1999 and before that ran the company's twin ABC stations serving Fort Smith and Fayetteville, Ark., due east of this reenergized metropolis. At year's end, retirement will come, putting the wheels in motion for a successor at KOCO-5.

On October 20, the FCC said yes to keeping a Sinclair Inc. station within the Salt Lake City DMA on its VHF channel, negating a planned move to UHF Channel 20 as the company was unable to complete the upgrade within a three-year window. Now, Sinclair has gotten Brown's nod to scrap a similar shift at an in-DMA sibling.

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.