TV/Cable News

HMPG has been a long-time distributor of the Jack Hanna franchise. Now, it is acquiring it all from Into The Wild LLC, building on its current ownership of "Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures."

The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon could be poised to pick up the streaming rights to professional sports teams presently under contract with the bankrupt Diamond Sports Group. How so? Amazon is supposedly talking to DSG about an equity investment. 

Yes, it was another big week at Spot Cable for pizza delivery specialist Domino's when it comes to the amount of spots aired on the networks measured by Media Monitors. That said, two big department store brands have poured money into spot cable this holiday season — a sign that a more diverse media mix matters ahead of Christmas Day.

The broadcast television network controlled by way of a majority equity interest from Nexstar Media Group will be added to three of its stations' digital subchannels, starting January 1, 2024.

With much conversation about generative artificial intelligence allowing radio stations to have "hosted" air shifts via a ChatGPT platform, a nascent tech company is promoting how it can produce a newscast for television — or any streaming platform — fully synthetically. Should TV industry leaders fret, or laugh?

Two weeks ago, The E.W. Scripps Co. parted ways with Marc Jaromin. It marked a change in leadership at WKBW-7 in Buffalo, the ABC affiliate that had been led by Jaromin since October 2019. Now, with Lyn Platinga a regional VP/GM overseeing the station, a Station Manager for WKBW has been selected from within.

Five of the leading broadcast television stations serving the only market in the Lone Star State on Mountain time have launched NEXTGEN TV broadcasts, with a Sinclair FOX affiliate serving as the market's "lighthouse" for ATSC 3.0 powered transmissions. 

Emily Matson, a key member of the “Erie News Now” reporter and anchor team, took her own life and was struck by a train in Fairview, Pa., on Monday.

He was GSM of WKRN-2 in Nashville before taking on a bigger role for Nexstar in Southwest Missouri. Now, this revenue-generating local TV vet with experience in Orlando and Houston is heading back to Music City USA.

The parent company of some of the first digital multicast television networks in the U.S., originally assets tied to the now-defunct Luken Communications, has fired up a low-power TV station with five of its offerings in a mid-sized city in the Peach State.

The latest Spot Ten reports for broadcast TV and cable television have been released by iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors. What's the story for Spot Television? Retailers are as active as ever across the holiday shopping season, while two big pharmaceutical brands continue to spend.

Colorado-based David and Penny Drucker have signed off on an agreement that will see its five over-the-air facilities licensed to Ketchikan TV and a low-power TV station owned by their Denver Digital Television LLC transferred to the fast-growing entity seeking to build a group of owned stations devoted to 24/7 newscasts.

One week ago RBR+TVBR shared the news regarding the sale of KVRR-15 in Fargo, full-time satellites KJRR-7 in Jamestown, N.D. and KBRR-10 in Thief River Falls, Minn.; and FOX-affiliated sibling KQDS-21 in Duluth, Minn.-Superior, Wisc., to Coastal Television. We know now the price paid.

Hitachi Kokusai has completed one of the first deliveries of its new SK-UHD7000-S2 broadcast cameras to a major Mid-Atlantic PBS Member station through Digital Video Group, a longtime partner. The cameras were an essential component of the public broadcaster’s recent turnkey production studio upgrade at its headquarters.

According to a just-released study from SalesFuel and BIA Advisory Services, hospitals and offices of physicians, dentists and chiropractors are top spenders in the healthcare marketing realm. For 2024, billions will go into local advertising — and over-the-air TV is a top media channel when it comes to spending.