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How will Netflix convince federal regulatory agencies to get their respective approvals of the $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. and its HBO assets? Are their red flags potentially thwarting Ted Sarandos from making the deal with David Zaslav? MoffettNathanson analyst Rob Fishman has his thoughts.

It is one of the largest-ever media transactions to be seen in modern times, and it will bring HBO, HBO Max and the Warner Bros. studio to Netflix.  Financial terms of the agreement and how WBD shareholders will be impacted were shared along with the acquisition announcement early Friday.

More than 100 stations owned and/or operated by the nation's largest single owner of broadcast TV stations are preparing to air their own New Year's Even special between 11pm on December 31 and 3:30am on January 1, Eastern time. Partner stations are also in the mix — including a former ABC affiliate in South Florida.

At the end of 2025, the VP/General Manager of the two stations operated by Sinclair Inc. in Titletown will retire. There won't be a national search for his successor: The current Station Manager for the Green Bay, Wisc., pair will assume that role come 2026.

Here's something that broadcast TV stations eager to transition to the ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV standard may get excited about. GatesAir has introduced a new version of its Maxiva XTE software-defined television exciter with NEXTGEN TV its key focal point.

There's a new leader at the ABC affiliate serving Wichita, and he succeeds Mike Rajewski by exiting Allen Media Group properties in Huntsville, Ala., where he served as VP and Regional General Manager.

A newly released study from a Sinclair Inc. subsidiary shares just how the new digital broadcast TV standard will help power the "internet of things," a robust alternative to DBS, and other non-broadcast revenue-revving features the ATSC, Pearl TV and broadcast TV executives have been promoting for months.

Do you have anything to share with the FCC regarding the proposed acquisition of TEGNA by Nexstar Media Group? Your opportunity to share your party's views on the blockbuster deal via an ex parte filing with the Commission has opened.

The weekly look at the actual amount of commercial airings per brand at both spot cable and spot TV is here, courtesy of iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors. And, at spot cable, there's a big push to increase consumption — and subscriptions — at Warner Bros. Discovery's key OTT streaming platform.

Some 45 years after a report produced while shadowing a full-time KTRK-13 news team member made it on the air, much to the News Director's anger, Melanie Lawson will be retiring from the ABC Owned Stations property in Houston. She shared her plans with viewers during Tuesday's 5pm newscast.

The individual that's behind the low-power TV licensee King Forward Inc. has finalized an asset purchase agreement that sees his company acquiring a pair of LPTV facilities serving Northern Nevada's biggest city.

One company is a specialist in service quality monitoring, program guide and metadata management, and data broadcasting systems for broadcasters. The other company is known for its broadcast media technology. Both have been selected to help usher in the ATSC 3.0 era at a division of Griffin Media.

In 1983, a former University of Florida swim team member took a job as a Senior News Producer at WTLV-TV in Jacksonville. He'd later serve as a News Producer at WTSP-10 in Tampa, and in 1993 relocated to Western New York to become News Director of WKBW-7 in Buffalo. Since October 1996, he's been based just to the east, in Rochester, N.Y. Now, Chuck Samuels is retiring, and the Sinclair Inc. stations will be getting a new leader.

Autumn grid-iron action and the blossoming of a new broadcast TV season helped over-the-air broadcast and cable television combat the ever-growing encroachment of digital and streaming platforms in October, fresh data from Nielsen found in its Media Distributor Gauge show.

With Standard Media unloading its TV stations following its failed attempt to merge with TEGNA, it sold the non-licensed assets of the ABC affiliate in Providence and two Paducah, Ky., area TV stations to the company led by Chris Ripley. Now, Standard Media has those stations and its Lincoln, Neb., property.