TV/Cable News

In October 2022, the 11-year President/GM of KNBC-4 in Los Angeles moved from Burbank to Bundy Drive, taking the top leadership role at Fox Television Stations' "FOX 11" and sibling KCOP-TV from the retiring Bill Lamb. Now, SVP/GM Steve Carlston is about to get some help at FOX11, as KTTV-11 is hiring a VP/News Director, focusing on that property.

While Standard General, the hedge fund controlled by Soohyung Kim, continues its public relations campaign seeking a last-minute change of heart by the FCC that would see its four Commissioners vote on its proposed purchase of TEGNA, getting the deal to the finish line is highly unlikely. For TEGNA, it remains business as usual. And, business is good, its Q1 results show.

The first half of 2023 is nearly done, and we’ve seen some interesting deals pop up — including the acquisition on Monday by Nexstar Media Group of KUSI-51 in San Diego. Does this portend the return of some big deals, or are we seeing blips on the radar? That's just one question RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson asked veteran media broker Dick Kozacko in this fresh InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM. LISTEN HERE

The quick-service restaurant category has always been an active one at Spot Cable, at least in recent years. For the week ending May 7, a take-away pizza chain soared to the top of the Spot Ten Cable chart. It's making waves on the Spot Ten TV report, too.

AMG's Entertainment Studios Networks and Weather Group on Thursday moved forward with the filing of a new lawsuit against McDonald's USA. However, this legal matter isn't about discrimination. Rather, it is about what Allen believes is fraud. McDonald's responded by slamming Allen for "baseless lawsuits as part of a public smear campaign against our company to try to line his pockets."

For nearly three decades, he attracted audiences to "The 10 O'Clock News" at WNYW-5 in New York, the Fox Television Stations-owned East Coast flagship station that was once a key Metromedia property with the WNEW-TV calls.  Now, New Yorkers are paying tribute to John Roland, who died Sunday at the age of 81.

It was a downbeat first quarter for DISH Network, as its revenue fell to $3.96 billion during the period. That lagged lagged the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2.39%, while DISH's earnings per share missed the Zacks estimate by 2.39% as they decreased 48.5% year over year. Nevertheless, DISH shares were up on Monday.

FUBO's streaming business exceeded guidance, posting double digit year-over-year growth in total revenue and paid subscribers. This led the company led by CEO David Gandler and CFO John Janedis (pictured), to raise full-year guidance for both metrics in North America.

Given the rather dour first quarter earnings report released yesterday by the CBS News & Stations parent, MoffettNathanson, the respected Wall Street financial house with its eye on media and entertainment, now forecasts Paramount Global will exit 2023 with a net leverage ratio of 5.7x. That's just one big concern expressed.

A new report from Moody’s Investors Service predicts the Writers Guild Strike could last three months or more, with the stakes being larger than the 2007 strike. If it lasts longer, weakly positioned media companies with limited financial flexibility could see their credit suffer.

“Continued growth in the first quarter of 2023," with revenue up 21% year-over-year, is the biggest highlight of Entravision Communications' just-released earnings report, with interim CEO and full-time CFO Chris Young noting, unsurprisingly, “Growth for the quarter was led by our digital segment, which is impressive given difficult macro conditions and decreased political advertising revenue from last year."

As of today, a free app available across key video-on-demand platforms offering news, weather and station-created programming from FOX Television Stations properties in Detroit, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., is now up and running for users. And, other markets are on the way.

It owns seven television stations located in Houston, Detroit, Orlando, San Antonio, Jacksonville and Roanoke, as well as SocialNewsDesk, a provider of social media management tools designed to connect newsrooms with their users. How did Graham Media Group perform in the first three months of 2023, from a fiscal standpoint?

It may be widely recognized as the maker of the gadget consumers use to access streaming video platforms. Now, Roku is going big with new original programming in a fight for eyeballs with FAST channels, AVOD, SVOD and good ol' broadcast TV.

S&P Global Ratings believes retrans revenue will increase over the next two years. Yet, that rate of growth is nearly eclipsed by the percentage decline of pay-TV subscribers it forecasts.