TV/Cable News

Whether it is a full-powered UHF or a television translator station with a micro-size signal contour, adhering to FCC deadlines is a must. Just ask Guymon TV Translator Inc.  The Oklahoma licensee faces a fine for not filing its license renewal applications with the Commission in a timely manner.

In a sign that the company has solidly moved far from the failed effort by Soohyung Kim-led Standard General to acquire it, TEGNA has announced that its shareholders have "overwhelmingly approved" the re-election of nine board members. Concurrently, the TEGNA stockholders said yes to an advisory resolution on the compensation of the company’s named executive officers.

On May 17, it became known that the NATPE Global conference would be returning. Now, new NATPE owners say they've got an "all-star advisory" board planning the NATPE Global 2024 affair, which will have a downtown Miami venue rather than the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

Its foundation is in radio and television serving Spanish-speaking Hispanics across the U.S., but its revenue drivers and future is squarely focused on global digital advertising solutions. That's perhaps a message the Chief Financial Officer of publicly traded Entravision will be sharing next week at an investor conference being held in Chicago.

With the promotion on Monday of Wendy McMahon to President/CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures, a 30-year CBS News veteran who most recently served as EVP/Newsgathering will now have top editorial oversight for the unit, across all platforms — including CBS News Radio.

The latest look at the Media Monitors Spot Ten TV and Spot Cable reports demonstrate how different the two forms of media are when it comes to marketers' placement choices. For the week ending August 13, there's little crossover, with one big takeaway food brand present on both charts — and few other advertisers.

FCC Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer has issued a Hearing Designation Order to the licensee of five LPTV stations and Antonio Cesar Guel, the former head of Hispanic Christian Community Network, on the grounds that Guel and HCCN are "one and the same," abused Commission processes and violated its rules, and appear to have engaged in a "sham" transaction.

When a licensee fails to timely file a license renewal application, it's become a nice way for the Federal Communications Commission to meet its annual operating budget. On Thursday alone, five notices were sent to licensees of low-power TV stations for their individual transgressions. Collectively, should there be no reduction or cancellations of the proposed fines, the FCC stands to add $10,500 from its coffers. 

Manoj Bhargava, who created the 5 Hour Energy beverage, has been fueling dollars into properties designed to convert free-to-air multicast offering NewsNet into a fully accessible network using owned-and-operated low-power television stations. Now, NewsNet parent Bridge News LLC, led by Vince Bodiford, is working out an exchange with another prolific LPTV trader.

While Connected TV is keeping overall television spend stable, it is not yet attracting new dollars to the platform, a new report from WARC Media finds. As a result, Connected TV growth is three times slower than retail media at the same point in its development.

Two individuals — one with local digital and ad streaming experience, the other the current VP/Director of Sales for CBS Stations' Chicago media properties — have been chosen to succeed Julio Marenghi, who will leave on October 1 as head of sales.

An agency that provides "media-agnostic, transparent, insight-driven marketing strategies" to client-side marketers has signed a multi-year strategic agreement with TV measurement company iSpot — a "first-of-its-kind" partnership that brings brands tools and managed services they say are needed to ensure video investments are optimized to unique business objectives.

CBS News and Stations unit is a vital part of the company, even as attention was placed on the sale of the Simon & Schuster publishing unit to pay down debt. The Pluto TV FAST channel platform and Paramount+ OTT offering also garnered attention. So, how did the segment led by President and co-head Wendy McMahon do in Q2?

FOX Corporation on Tuesday released its fiscal Q4 2023 earnings report, and CEO Lachlan Murdoch couldn't be more pleased with how the last three months of its fiscal year turned out. "We enter Fiscal 2024 with a focused strategy and best-in-class balance sheet as we continue to drive shareholder value," he said. How did the Television segment do, in particular, for FOX?

Just how is the direct broadcast satellite business doing, as cord-cutting has accelerated the shift to the "vMVPD"? Net pay TV subscriber decreases were higher year-over-year for DISH Network. But, other business components helped DISH beat Wall Street forecasts with its Q2 2023 earnings per share.