TV/Cable News

The NAB has released a new television spot as part of its new "Keep the Game On" campaign that highlights what the association led by Curtis LeGeyt believes is a growing concern among sports fans: the increasing number of games moving behind paywalls and subscription services.

Sinclair Inc. has just launched what it calls "a comprehensive local marketing and consumer education campaign" designed to increase awareness and adoption of NEXTGEN TV in Ohio's state capital. The campaign focused on the Columbus, Ohio, market includes a localized website designed to educate and influence.

A selection of video podcasts within the SiriusXM network are heading to the free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel service that is owned by Fox Corporation and is rapidly attracting households of viewers.

It operates under the local "KXLY Brands" banner in the State of Washington's second-largest market, led by the ABC affiliate serving Spokane and a group of seven radio brands. Now, thanks to a shared services agreement, Morgan Murphy Media will be adding the market's FOX affiliate to its array of offerings to consumers and advertisers.

For the last several weeks, the spot for TV spots for one of the nation's leading auto insurance specialty companies has been national Spot Cable. For the final week of May 2026, it has company — from a category peer that recently recruited actor J.K. Simmons as its spokesperson.

The FCC's Media Bureau late Friday moved forward with establishing a formal pleading cycle and ex parte procedures for the early renewal applications of the eight ABC Owned Stations owned by its parent, The Walt Disney Co.

As far as the three senior analysts at key Wall Street investment house MoffettNathanson are concerned, the debate as to whether streaming is as good a business as the legacy linear video business it replaced has long since settled: It isn’t. Why is that the case? The streaming business was, and is, "rather pedestrian."

Outpost is designed to monitor, route, record, transform, and deliver live video feeds across on-premise and cloud environments without the cost and complexity of proprietary routing hardware. The platform includes stream transformation capabilities such as codec and frame rate adaptation.

Founded in 2023, Crush Yard is growing via a franchise model focused on "community, connection, and premium experiences on and off the court." That's convinced Sinclair Inc. to align its Sinclair Ventures arm with the pickleball-themed eatery and entertainment center brand.

In recent weeks, the Spot Ten Cable crown has been taken by a brand that until recently had been largely quiet with its marketing efforts. That's what makes Coca-Cola's Spot Cable activity noteworthy, and last week's spot play totals are certainly headline-making.

He most recently served as Local Sales Manager for WRTV-6 in Indianapolis and exited with its sale to DuJuan McCoy's Circle City Broadcasting. Meet the new VP/General Manager of Sinclair Inc.'s two stations in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City market.

It is an award bestowed annually that honors individuals or teams who demonstrate exemplary leadership in advancing the ATSC’s mission "and embody the vision, tenacity, and commitment" that defined the legacy of former longtime broadcast standards association's president, Mark Richer.  The 2026 recipient has been named.

Fuse Media is celebrating the signing of a new strategic partnership with cross-platform measurement and outcomes specialist iSpot — a pact Fuse says is aimed at validating and proving value across their owned and operated Connected TV and free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel environments.

A market-oriented think tank in Portland, Ore., is urging the FCC to treat broadcast ownership rules, retransmission consent, content regulation, and sports distribution policy as a single interlocking problem, cautioning that fixing any one without the others risks making the broader regulatory picture worse.

Cox Media Group is facing a nearly $1 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over an AI-powered "Active Listening" advertising service that the agency says falsely claimed to harvest conversations from smart devices to serve targeted ads to consumers.