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For those who have been watching the Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable reports for quite some time, they'll tell you that Quick-Service Restaurants are among the leading categories when it comes to spot play count. This week, a pizza maker and a royal maker of flame-broiled beef patties are tops. 

Pew Research Center has published new fact sheets on trends in network, cable, and local TV news between 2020 and 2022. Findings include that advertiser expenditures for the news programs of ABC, CBS and NBC have declined substantially since 2020; while local TV news audiences remained relatively stable from 2021.

Ensuring Spanish-speakers in one of the nation's biggest emerging Hispanic markets have access to weather information en español will see a new alliance between the SagamoreHill Broadcasting-owned Telemundo affiliate for Kansas City and the owner of the market's home for the ABC television network.

She most recently served as VP/GM of FOX affiliate KOKI-23 and MyNetwork TV sibling KMYT-41 in Tulsa, stations formerly owned by Cox Media Group and sold in August 2022 to Imagicomm Communications.  Now, she is joining Nexstar Media Group, and will now serve as VP/GM of its Sacramento broadcasting and digital operations.

A new research study finds that 47% of advertisers polled believe addressable TV played a role in their 2023-2024 upfront negotiations. Further, more than 80% of those advertisers said that it was an important aspect of the negotiations, with nearly half rating it as “extremely important” to their planning.

"Local TV: Perils and Promise in the Age of Streaming." That's the title of a newly released report from industry analyst group TVRev, co-founded by Alan Wolk. What's the key takeaway from what's billed as "a primer for those new to the local TV market and an up-to-date high level analysis for those fully steeped in it"? Local TV news is consumed by more people than you may think.

The Allen Media Group digital platform known as Local Now has added 14 free ad-supported television channels from CBS News & Stations, in addition to other content from the Paramount Global entity.

Locality, a local television solutions provider, is widening its business relationship with Comcast-owned TV industry tech platform FreeWheel. What does this mean for its clients?

Carrie Hofmann presently serves as News Director of TEGNA's NBC affiliate in Charlotte, WCNC-36. As she prepares for her first GM role, RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson spoke with Hoffman about local TV leadership today, and what words of encouragement she has for others that seek to follow her path up the ladder in over-the-air TV today. LISTEN HERE

Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, in association with Telepictures, has teamed with one of the nation's leading audio content creation and distribution companies in adapting a gossip and celebrity-focused newsmagazine seen in early fringe for 30 years into a weekly podcast.

As the midday hours approached, the two companies formally revealed that they've reached a multi-year distribution agreement. And, as Disney and Charter see it, the accord is one "that maximizes value for consumers and supports the linear TV experience as the industry continues to evolve."

First, it was digitally distributed and known as Newsy. Then, it became a MVPD-distributed offering, before evolving to a free-to-air digital multicast network. Now, The E.W. Scripps Co. is rolling out what was formerly branded as Newsy to 18 more stations.

Allen Media Group has emerged as one of the largest suppliers of first-run syndicated programming for broadcast television stations. And, at a time when the SAG-AFTRA and WGA East and West strikes are poised to greatly impact the industry as it enters the new fall season, AMG is taking pride in its premiere of three new highly anticipated television court series starting Monday.

The Video Division of the FCC's Media Bureau has approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that gives an opportunity for The University of Nebraska to move forward with the replacement of a VHF Channel it owns for a more-desired UHF Channel.

As 2021 came to a close, Gray Television executed an agreement to purchase five Construction Permits from the original CEO of DTV America — John Kyle III and his King Forward Inc. Now, it is agreeing to sell one of those CPs, and a low-power TV property, to the operator of the NewsNet broadcast TV operation.