TV/Cable News

Edge Spectrum has agreed to acquire 196 television station licenses and construction permits in a deal with EICB-TV and Grace Worship Center valued at $72 million. This involves a promissory note that will cover the entire value of a deal that was originally struck 364 days ago.

Starting Monday, two Graham Media Group stations will launch an additional hour of their morning local newscasts. However, you won't see them on the stations' over-the-air signals. The newscasts will be offered exclusively on the stations' digital platforms and, namely, their OTT apps.

"Alexa, what's the news?" If you live in Cleveland, Nashville, or West Palm Beach, Amazon's voice-activated virtual assistant will turn to the local newsrooms of Channel 5, respectively. That's all thanks to a deal with The E.W. Scripps Co. that now connects its local newsrooms to the increasingly popular smart home device.

Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) has expanded the existing RFS antenna and combiner infrastructure atop One World Trade Center. This, RFS says, will enable delivery of next generation broadcasting to 7.45 million households across the New York City area.

Television set manufacturer LG has a huge stake in the success of ATSC 3.0. That's why it filed comments this week in the FCC's next-gen TV proceeding. Here's what LG had to say.

In January 2020, NATPE Miami was staged at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach resort. Scant discussion of an Asian health scare called COVID-19 was had. Today, NATPE Miami is dead. In its place is a new one-day event scheduled for June 1 in Los Angeles.

In last week’s Media Monitors TV Spot Ten report, the Chevrolet Dealer Association held steady at No. 1 with 27,103 spots. But the Tide is rolling toward TV, and Procter & Gamble Co. is to thank.

That's a question asked today by Zacks Equity Research. What's the conclusion? It's a highly positive one for the broadcast media company that owns broadcast TV stations, NewsNation and WGN Radio in Chicago.

For the first time, long-form content represents the majority of time spent watching video on every screen. That's the top finding from the just-released Q1 2017 Global Video Index from software and services provider Ooyala.

He's a household name across the Tri-State Area thanks to his decades as a local TV news anchor. He's also had his hand as a radio station licensee, with stations in New England and in Upstate New York. Now, Ernie Anastos is heading back to the small screen with the coming debut of a syndicated program Gray Television has agreed to distribute. Producing the program is the former morning host of WPLJ.

A top independent data management platform (DMP) and data exchange has been selected as a partner by a company that's best known for providing TV companies with solutions for ad detection, sponsorship measurement and media monitoring.

It's been a goal of Circle City Broadcasting owner DuJuan McCoy to expand Indiana-focused news programming beyond the Indianapolis market, where he owns two TV stations. McCoy can now rejoice in knowing that this programming is moving closer to getting full coverage of the Hoosier State via broadcast TV.

The FCC's Incentive Auction Task Force this morning calculated the aggregate amount of the estimated costs of reimbursement-eligible TV stations and MVPDs faced with new post-incentive auction channel assignments. The figure is upward of $2.1 billion.

The quick-service restaurant brand has long been an active user of Spot Cable. For the week ending August 7, QSRs dominated, taking the top three spots of Media Monitors' weekly review of play counts for cable advertising activity.

It's turning out to be a grey and gloomy Monday for Silver Spring, Md.-based Discovery Communications. As Wall Street digests the news that the pay-TV giant is acquiring Scripps Networks Interactive (not to be confused with broadcast radio and TV owner The E.W. Scripps Co.) for $14.6 billion, Discovery reported adjusted net earnings that missed analysts' estimates by three cents per share. The double whammy led to a sell-off of "DISCA" shares, which finished down 8.2% on very heavy volume.