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He helped lead Amazon’s sales and marketing partnership with the NFL for “Thursday Night Football” for one year and has most recently headed East Coast sales for Overtime. Now, this 19-year media sales pro will lead efforts to connect national advertisers with Scripps' platforms.

Not convinced that Netflix's advertising dollar ambitions are little to worry about for broadcast television companies across the globe? Chew on this from WARC: Netflix’s ad revenue is forecast to more than double in 2026 and exceed $8 billion USD by 2030.

A definitive purchase agreement has been reached that will see one family-owned cable TV service provider expand its scale and footprint in the Buckeye State and in neighboring West Virginia by acquiring another privately held Multichannel Video Program Distributor.

Television viewing climbed to a 12-month high in January 2026, with overall viewing up 3.7% over December 2025. This, says Nielsen, was fueled by a 9% monthly increase in cable viewership — in combination with major sports events, returning broadcast dramas and winter weather that kept audiences in front of their TVs.

It's a Nashville-headquartered operation known for its five digital multicast networks led by CEO and co-President Joel Wertman, and it recently promoted a woman to a role in which she serves as the company's "human API" — seeing her integrate "complex operations and bridging the gap between creative vision and operational experience."

Liberty Mutual Insurance, nearly unheard of two decades ago, emerged as the leader by ad play count.  Today, Liberty Mutual continues to be the pace car in the auto insurance realm. But it is not without its competitors seeking consumers via cable and spot TV efforts.

The Atlanta Braves and Gray Media have teamed to bring viewers of WANF-46 and WPCH-17 in Atlanta an expanded spring training broadcast offering. Atlanta Braves President/CEO Derek Schiller says it results from “an amazing response to our partnership" with the two Atlanta TV stations in 2025.

While streaming platforms attempt to claim a larger share of sports viewership, new research from TVB shows that traditional broadcast television remains essential to sports enthusiasts who follow multiple sports throughout the year.

The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) and the NAB have revealed that a notable correspondent for “CBS Sunday Morning,” who has also attracted audiences on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," is the recipient of the 2026 LABF Insight Award.

Details have arrived from YouTube TV about how the Google-aligned entity plans to attract both "cord cutters" and those who have never had a cable TV services bill. MoffettNathanson Senior Analyst Robert Fishman took a close look at the potential impact of the forthcoming "skinny bundle" on the TV business.

TVision, which seeks to gain business partners by measuring every second of TV and Connected TV viewer engagement, has signed an expanded licensing agreement with measurement firm VideoAmp that brings TVision's person-level calibration data for Connected TV to the VideoAmp sphere.

Spring Training is just days away, and many Major League Baseball fans are looking forward to the 2026 season already. For those who follow the St. Louis Cardinals, they'll be pleased to know that "Home Plate" is getting much easier to access via free over-the-air broadcast television.

Maura McDonough Cope has announced her retirement, concluding an accomplished career that most recently saw her lead affiliate relations for Weigel Broadcasting. We now know who is succeeding her.

As millions of fans tuned in for Super Bowl LX on Sunday, history was made behind the scenes in a radio broadcast booth. It involved the broadcast engineer for a pair of Bonneville International-owned Seattle radio stations, a woman who has paved a new path for her female counterparts.

Less than a week after fellow Commissioner Olivia Trusty expressed her belief that broadcast ownership deregulation would boost competition, the FCC’s lone Democratic Commissioner used her State of the Net Conference address on Monday to argue for just the opposite.