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In February 2024, Diamond Sports Group’s bankruptcy restructuring process came with a shiny silver lining for free over-the-air TV: In Milwaukee, play-by-play coverage for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks arrived at an over-the-air station for the first time in 17 years. Now, Morgan Murphy Media is stepping up its coverage of the Bucks in two other Wisconsin markets, bring a full season full of games to viewers.

A Hearst Television veteran has been promoted to Vice President of News, a role in which he'll continue to report to Hearst Television Sr. VP of News and Chief Content Officer Barbara Maushard.

A new strategic agreement has been reached that will restore all-news cable television channels owned and offered by two regional MVPDs to each lineup, resolving an 11-month freeze-out for the brands on Optimum and Charter Communications' Spectrum systems in the New York Tri-State Area.

A live, locally produced sports talk program focused on the pro and collegiate sports teams preferred by residents of Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia is coming to a trio of Sinclair Inc. owned stations in the region. 

He spent more than a decade at Univision Communications, rising to VP of Advertising Sales, before exiting for a similar role at Estrella Media. In August 2022, he joined Gray to lead its Spanish-language media sales. Now, Jason Hall is being promoted at the company today known as Gray Media.

It is a tale of two segments when it comes to the financial health of Entravision Communications, the company rooted in Hispanic broadcast media in the U.S. For its heritage Spanish-language radio and TV properties, Q2 revenue was down a sliver — even with the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Advertising Technology & Services division? That's a whole other story.

While regional players such as Sweet James are omnipresent in some locales, Morgan & Morgan has taken an Orlando-founded entity and crafted it into a coast-to-coast offering. Spot TV has only further cemented its dominance, as seen in the latest Media Monitors report for Spot Television.

As Montreal-based Mirko Bibic, President/CEO of Bell Media parent BCE and Bell Canada, sees it, the company's Q2 2026 results more than met the company's expectations. In particular, the Bell Media digital strategy "continues to pay off" while FIFA World Cup rights at the CTV network brought advertisers in droves.

A definitive agreement has been reached that will see the nation's dominant audience measurement and data analytics provider acquire the NYSE-traded company known for its software platform used to verify media quality, optimize ad performance, and prove campaign outcomes.

Building off a 28-year partnership, WCBS-TV in New York has confirmed that it will air New York Jets NFL pre-season games, along with shoulder programming and other team content throughout the year. Coverage begins August 14 in East Rutherford, N.J., when the team hosts the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The FCC on Thursday voted on party lines to erase the 22 1/2-year old 39% national TV ownership reach cap put in place by Congress. What would the FCC do should the agency be taken to court for its party-line decision? Chairman Brendan Carr is ready for whatever challenges are forthcoming. 

The broadcast of "a remarkable FIFA Men's World Cup" helped tilt the scales for Fox Corporation in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, as the launch of direct-to-consumer streaming platform FOX One also paid dividends for the company led by CEO Lachlan Murdoch.

AI is transforming the content search and discovery experience, but an ungrounded large language model (LLM) can only answer based on its training data. This, says Gracenote, limits its ability to stay current. In the world of TV, this limitation can have a negative impact on the user experience.

The FCC's August Open Meeting is on Thursday, and based on the statement issued late Wednesday from the agency's lone Democratic vote-caster, the end of the current 39% national TV ownership reach put in place by Congress in the early 2000s appears to be coming to its conclusion.

Is scale still the winning strategy in media, or has the math changed? A longtime financial analyst focused on broadcast media will tackle those questions on October 21 during an NAB Show New York session baring the name "The Future of Media: Consolidation or Spin-Off?"