TV/Cable News

The National Basketball Association franchise serving Charlotte and the Carolinas has secured a new broadcast partnership that will bring its games to viewers in six additional DMAs within the team's territory. It is thanks to a new agreement reached between the Charlotte Hornets and Gray Media.

This year’s recipients include Zenia Mucha, Chief Brand and Communications Officer at TikTok, who will receive the inaugural Gracies Vanguard Award, and Kristen Welch, Chief Financial and Operations Officer at Illustrative Mathematics, recipient of the AWM Legacy Leadership Award.

In January 2023, the parent of longtime regional news and information service RNN filed a petition with the FCC seeking to upgrade its Boston DMA facility with a shift from a VHF channel to a UHF channel. Upon learning that such a move could not be done in a timely manner, RNN asked to rescind the request.

The FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that opens up a comment window offering interested parties a say in whether Georgia Public Broadcasting may upgrade its PBS Member station serving Savannah, Ga., with a shift from a VHF channel to a more powerful UHF facility.

The JIC said each of the three providers met the JIC's baseline threshold for transactability across Total Households, Advanced Audiences and Personified Demographics. The evaluation was conducted by data, analytics and research leaders representing media agencies, national TV publishers and independent consultants.

For NBA fans in Central Florida, the Magic Kingdom expands beyond Walt Disney World, thanks to such individuals as Jalen Suggs and Franz Wagner. Cox Media Group recognizes this, and thanks to its television partnership with the team is rebranding one of its two broadcast stations in the Orlando DMA in honor of the team.

The churn rate has gained a new eye with respect to ensuring subscribers don't say goodbye, and it is streaming television which is actively looking for ways to keep that rate low. Hub Entertainment Research has a solution, a newly released report offers. Still, the findings indicate free-to-air TV wins.

The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten reports have been released, and when it comes to Spot Cable versus National Spot TV, there's regularly a deviation with respect to brands and their investment activity. Last week, a brand that dominates Spot Cable is inching closer to the top of the Spot TV report, as an accident attorney specialty law firm again rules the broadcast TV dial.

The collegiate athletics league consists of nine member institutions in five states, including Eastern Illinois Univ., Lindenwood Univ., Morehead State Univ., Southeast Missouri State Univ., SIU-Edwardsville, Univ. of Southern Indiana, Tennessee State Univ., UT-Martin and Western Illinois Univ.

All commercial and noncommercial television stations are required to place a carriage election statement stating whether they elect retransmission consent or must carry on cable and satellite in their online public files (OPIF) on or before October 1. The NAB has prepared a Counsel Memo to aid Member stations.

A new fiber camera adapter was officially brought to market at the IBC2026 conference and expo, which concluded Monday and saw a largely Euro-centric crowd across four days at the Amsterdam RAI. For MultiDyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems, introducing its SilverBack-IP was the company's headline act.

A Michigan federal district court judge has granted a request submitted in July by a former WJBK-TV in Detroit news anchor that nullifies a noncompete agreement she had with the FOX Television Stations-owned station. The judgment allows Taryn Asher to appear on another TV station as her gender discrimination and retaliation case against her former employer continues.

Nearly 75% of TV viewers regularly use their smartphones for other media while watching television, a sign that the competition for audience attention between "television" and mobile video is only growing. That's according to just-released consumer research courtesy of UK-based Omdia.

A full-power satellite television station rebroadcasting the programming of an independent Birmingham-based TV station owned by Sinclair Inc. is poised to become a Sinclair station itself.  This would change a lengthy shared services agreement between Sinclair and this cozy operational partner to outright ownership.

What constitutes “linear TV” and what constitutes streaming? The lines are getting blurred, and that's made it harder and harder for MoffettNathanson to produce its quarterly "Cord-Cutting Monitor," the financial house's three senior analysts conclude.