TV/Cable News

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.

He was named President of The CW Network in October 2022. It is now confirmed that he will remain in that role through the end of 2027, thanks to a contract extension announced early Monday by the majority owner of the broadcast TV operation — Nexstar Media Group.

As cord-cutting has not relented, one vMVPD has continued to add new subscribers in a big way. And, the National Football League's Sunday Ticket is a key reason why that's transpired.

What do personal checking and savings accounts have in common with a frozen coffee from one of the nation's more ubiquitous Java vendors? A bevy of cable TV spots, the latest data from Media Monitors show.

Hearst Television in June earned a partial win in a Massachusetts U.S. District Court as it dismissed many, but not all of the claims, brought forth by a videographer at WCVB-5 in Boston who declined to follow a company mandate to get a COVID-19 vaccine based on religious reasons. Now, George Rodrique has gotten part of his lawsuit revived.

It's carving itself a niche as a "sports-first live TV streaming platform," but that hasn't excited investors so much — even as it released Q2 2023 results on Friday that it boasted  exceeded North American guidance. With the Closing Bell on the NYSE, FUBO shares were down 1.9% to $3.15, even as the company enjoyed 41% year-over-year revenue growth.