TV/Cable News

There'll be no "Great Affiliation Switch" coming for any of Gray Television's television stations that are home to such programming as "Saturday Night Live" or "TODAY."

The FCC's two Republican Commissioners are bitterly disappointed. The NAB and broadcast TV station owners are likely angered. With the 3-2 approval by Democrats of the 2018 Quadrennial Order, the "Top Four" rule for broadcast TV was tightened, not loosened. One cable TV advocacy group is pleased — suggesting retrans wars possibly influenced the Chairwoman.

The Director of Chicago Bureau Operations and a FOX News Audio update anchor and reporter have each passed away. Staff were notified of their deaths in company-wide memos distributed on December 23, which were released to the media on Tuesday.

The license renewal of a low-powered television station serving the Bryan-College Station, Tex., market will proceed, but not without a small, proposed fine for engaging in unauthorized operation of the station after its Construction Permit had expired.

A licensee that has seen Julie Huang and Matt Davidge amass a collection of low-power TV stations over the last several years could be on the hook for a financial penalty for failing to adhere to two big FCC rules.

In a first, the National Football League is allowing a telecast of one of its regular-season games to be devoid of commercials for an entire quarter. This "groundbreaking fan experience" will be shown not on broadcast or cable TV nationally, however — it is a Peacock-only game airing on Saturday.

Ryan WHO?  For those who seek an alternative to the New Year's Eve telecast airing on ABC, Nexstar Media Group may have a program that suits your fancy — if you happen to live in six mid-America states or 15 West Coast markets including Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tim Kay, Ampersand’s VP of Political Strategy, joins the InFOCUS Podcast to discuss how the fundamentals of political advertising have not changed, but politicians looking to pour campaign dollars into social or SVOD should consider “a mixed media approach” instead.  LISTEN HERE

With the calendar racing towards the 2023 holiday season, broadcast television stations who are preparing for their on-air, online and social coverage of New Year’s Eve can now consider clean and uninterrupted bug/logo/commercial-free feeds featuring official Times Square New Year’s Eve content, courtesy of Countdown Entertainment and the Times Square Alliance.

Broadcasting a parade isn't a simple task. However, when it came time for CBS to air its Thanksgiving Day coverage, the show went off without a hitch. Making the live programming flow smoothly was none other than CP Communications.

Bloomberg is reporting that BET Chief Executive Officer Scott Mills and Chinh Chu, an ex-Blackstone Inc. C-Suiter, are pitching the purchase of the cable television network from Paramount Global. That doesn't sit well with Byron Allen, the media mogul and Allen Media Group owner. He put in a bid, and it isn't being considered.

Jeffrey Wlodarczak, the Principal and Internet/Media/Communications Analyst for Pivotal Research Group, has "modestly raised" his 2024 EBITDA and free cash flow expectations for Roku. This, in turn, led Pivotal to raise its year-end 2024 target price for Roku stock.

"The TV outcomes company" that describes itself as a platform measuring predictive behaviors driven by convergent TV advertising will now be providing Connected TV advertising engagement and outcomes measurement to the nation's "sports-first" vMVPD platform.

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.