TV/Cable News

According to a fresh report from Parks Associates, one in five U.S. households with internet access in the home possess a television antenna. At the same time, 12% of these households do not have a TV antenna but plan to purchase one within the next six months.

Allen Media Group’s Local Now free streaming service has forged a partnership with VICE Media Group, a move that sees two VICE FAST channels added to the platform.

Nelson Peltz has proven to be a thorn in the side of Bob Iger and The Walt Disney Co. for some time, and just days ago launched a proxy fight with the company in the hopes that shareholders will vote him onto the Board of Directors. Peltz just picked up the endorsement of another key investor in Disney.

In a somewhat surprising move, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has made a change at the top, with the man who has served as its Chairman "transitioning" to a role as a NBCUniversal senior advisor. With Beau Ferrari no longer in the role, it is being given to the man whose resume includes a stint at the helm of Noticias Telemundo.

It enjoys over-the-air coverage via a collection of low-power television stations stretching from the Portland, Ore., market south to the San Francisco Bay Area. Now, a religious broadcaster has gotten the go-ahead to build a VHF facility near the Southern Oregon city of Medford, adding to its coverage in the region.

Yes, the big tech giants are taking a lot of dollars from traditional media. But, one "GAFAN" giant last week invested significantly in Spot Cable, easily topping the latest report from Media Monitors with more than 100,000 spot plays detected by the iHeartMedia-owned company.

A now-failed 2021 acquisition would have created a duopoly in the Fargo market, as Forum is the owner of ABC affiliate WDAY-6. As such, a “Big Four” waiver request from the FCC was needed to get the deal done; that never came. Now, a new owner has emerged for the TV stations. Kalil & Co. brokered the new deal, too.

Shares in Nasdaq-traded Paramount Global surged in trading on Friday, following a report in The Wall Street Journal suggesting that a bundling agreement with Apple is being discussed. The growth continued into Monday's trading for the CBS News & Stations parent, giving it a strong start to the first full trading week of December.

Comcast-owned ad tech platform FreeWheel is partnering with a streaming television marketplace as part of a bigger effort to provide marketers with a new way to buy advertising in today’s fast-growing, free-ad supported streaming television (FAST) sector.

Cloud-based FinTech platform Conduiit, designed to offer a one-stop shop for boosting profitability in TV productions, has closed on $1 million in pre-seed capital. This reflects "the industry’s excitement for innovative tech services in entertainment and Conduiit’s potential to revolutionize financial management in the sector."

The company's executive leadership team will only say "no comment," but it appears Gray Television could be within striking distance of signing a deal that would bring select telecasts of the National Basketball Association's New Orleans Pelicans to over-the-air television in the Crescent City.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. That old adage is proving true for an activist investor who is insisting on gaining a seat on the board of directors for ABC Owned Stations and ESPN parent The Walt Disney Co.

She spent a dozen years at Sony Pictures Television, where she rose to Executive Producer and Head of Brand Partnerships for "The Good Dish," and served as Co-Executive Producer and Head of Brand Partnerships for "The Dr. Oz. Show." Now, she's the SVP/First-Run Development and Brand Extensions at CBS Media Ventures.

U.S. cable and satellite pay-TV services are set to face subscription declines in the coming years as their remaining viewers increasingly shift to OTT streaming services. Complicating matters, says GlobalData, are the younger viewers who have never even subscribed to a traditional pay-TV service.

FOX News Media’s free ad-supported streaming television ("FAST") weather service has expanded its distribution to include one of the nation's two direct broadcast satellite services and its associated streaming application.