TV/Cable News

The owner of broadcast television stations in 113 television markets, reaching approximately 36% of U.S. television households, has announced when it will release its fourth quarter and full-year 2022 earnings.  The announcement comes as the company's stock is in rebound mode from a scary Halloween dip in value.

Roberto Lemmen Meyer, known as a Mexican businessman, invested in a low-powered TV station serving Arizona's second-largest market in 2012. It's served as an Azteca América affiliate, and upon its April 1989 sign-on was a Telemundo affiliate for three years. Now, this station's continued broadcasts en español will see the arrival of such programs as Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento and Rica Famosa Latina on its principal broadcast signal.

The largest licensee of U.S. broadcast TV stations, which also owns the NewsNation network — now the home of a noted Fox Business Washington, D.C. reporter — and WGN-AM in Chicago, saw its shares soar above the $200 mark in Friday morning trading on the Nasdaq GlobalSelect market.  Nexstar stock could go a little higher in the coming days, given a decision by the company's Board of Directors to double its quarterly dividend.

"If only we didn't have to talk about Peacock ..." That's a statement made by MoffettNathanson in its Q4 2022 investor report that dissects Comcast Corp.'s financial results. The investment house's No. 1 concern for the OTT platform housed within NBCUniversal is simple. It asks, "Can Comcast continue to grow Peacock without the current level of spending/losses?"

Nexstar Media Group has decided when it will report its 2022 fourth quarter and full year financial results. By that date, given the broadcast TV company's current stock performance, NXST could well be on its way to a fresh record high.

Now housed under subsidiary Diamond Sports Group, life has been tough for those charged with growing the Bally Sports regional sports networks acquired by Sinclair Broadcast Group and generating profits. As such, Bloomberg reports, a "complex" $8.6 billion bankruptcy filing that will see DSG engage in debt restructuring is coming soon.

The Media Bureau has established a forthcoming comment and reply comment window so the public may provide their input on a proposal focused on how the Commission should determine whether specific closed captioning display settings are readily accessible.

Nielsen's much-anticipated cross-platform management product has officially received its market release. What can advertisers, and broadcast media, expect to see now that "a new era of clarity" has arrived?

The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable and Spot Ten TV reports are out, and the freshest look at MVPD-based ad activity shows that, once again, auto insurance specialists are actively using cable television networks to reach consumers.  But, the gap between Progressive and Liberty Mutual Insurance this week is wider, while GEICO, Allstate and the General are quiet.

In December 2021, Wendy McMahon and Adrienne Roark revealed that local news created by CBS News and Stations' WWJ-62 in Detroit, today part of Paramount Global, would be coming within the next year. That day has finally arrived, after a short delay. It's the first time since WWJ's 1995 debut that its own newscasts will air on the station and its digital app.

Alan Komissaroff suffered a heart attack after exercising at his home, a GoFundMe page established following the 47-year-old's sudden passing reveals. It was not the first time he suffered a cardiac episode.

This week, media executives from across Latin America will be among the participants at C21's Content Americas conference in Miami. NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises will have a presence, and two Telemundo executives will be in the spotlight at panels set for Tuesday and Thursday, respectively.

The free-streaming service featuring local news and entertainment owned by Byron Allen's Allen Media Group has launched three NBC News FAST channels. As of today, the trio of information-focused offerings can be found as free offerings.

Attention, broadcast media and spot cable TV sellers: "Traditional TV ads alone miss an opportunity to surprise and delight across the entire streamers' journey outside the traditional ad break." That proclamation comes courtesy of MAGNA's "MAGNA Media Trials" and one of the streaming video industry's biggest brands.

A former CBS News Streaming Network anchor with experience at WPIX-11 in New York and WUSA9 in Washington, D.C., is joining Gray Television Washington News Bureau on Monday (1/23)as an anchor for "Local News Live."