TV/Cable News

Two Class A TV stations that got no takers in the just-concluded spectrum auction have just been sold. In both deals, Kalil & Co. acted as the escrow agent and the buyer's broker, while Patrick Communications represented the seller.

He's known across low-power television circles for his role leading Edge Spectrum. Additionally, Randy Weiss is the head of a broadcast ministry, CrossTalk. Now, he's paring down a LPTV property serving Washington's state capital.

The Sinclair Digital arm of Sinclair Broadcast Group and the Baltimore-based media company's marketing technology and managed services operation Compulse have selected a measurement and marketing analytics platform to measure media performance across its 300+ digital properties.

Here's something every media company would like to see in its Q1 results: Despite an 86% drop in political advertising, Gray Television enjoyed a 17% year-over-year jump in its total revenue as its net income surpassed $10 million. That's on an as-reported basis, however. On a "combined historical basis," total revenue slipped by 1%, to $203.9 million.

Univision Communications has teamed with IPG's media agency Mediahub in forging a partnership with EDO Inc. and datafuelX — an arrangement Univision says will allow it "to leverage proprietary consumer behavior data to predict engagement performance for advertiser campaigns across Univision’s linear networks."

What's going on at Nexstar? On March 1, its shares were at $73.15. Today, they're under $57. Are investors concerned that the company's merger with Media General isn't enough, and that it needs another huge deal to keep up with Sinclair?

On Tuesday, RBR+TVBR first reported the signing of a fresh accord with Hearst Television that brings play-by-play of the NBA's Orlando Magic to the Tampa-St. Petersburg DMA. Now, the team will see approximately 70 regular season games air on broadcast TV stations owned by Gray Media in three other Florida markets. 

The capital of the Keystone State has its first locally based NEXTGEN TV station. And, for those who have televisions capable of receiving the non-backwards compatible signals powered by the new ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard, turbo-charged ABC programming courtesy of the local affiliate can be seen.

If you think the radio industry has a battle on its hands with dueling legislation that would impose new royalty fees on music airplay at AM and FM stations, the cable TV industry may have an equally large fight on its hands. On June 20, comments are due on proposed regulations that would require covered cable systems to pay a separate per-telecast royalty.

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 Kristin Dolan-led television and cross-platform measurement, analytics and attribution firm known as 605 is teaming up with Deloitte Digital on an initiative designed to accelerate the launch of 605's newest product.

Thanks to the rapid ascent of "over-the-top" (OTT) viewing of full-length scripted programming, reality shows, sports, and news programming, TV isn't just that box in the living room anymore. Srini Dharmaji wants every member of the broadcast TV industry's C-Suite to fully understand this. In the RBR+TVBR INFOCUS report, we examine how social and digital platforms are now, more than ever, essential extensions of VHF and UHF stations.

Connected TV advertising and measurement platform Innovid has struck a deal to acquire television measurement company TVSquared. The acquisition creates what Innovid calls "an end-to-end, independent TV measurement alternative that brings together streaming and linear television."

It's the end of a big month for auto retailers, and it's the end of the fiscal year for many businesses. This could explain why the Honda Dealer Association greatly accelerated its activity at broadcast TV for the seven-day period ending June 25.