TV/Cable News

It's official: The two markets where Sunbeam Television owns and operates over-the-air stations are on target for bringing ATSC 3.0-powered NEXTGEN TV signals to viewers who have sets capable of receiving the "improved" digital broadcasts. But, are those stations participating in the widespread launch of NEXTGEN TV in these respective locales?

Vince Castelli has been an active buyer of low-power television stations. In early November, he completed his Castelli Media's purchase of a group of LPTVs associated with John Kyle. This followed a July 2022 agreement to acquire a LPTV in Florida's Panhandle from Jeff Winemiller. Now, Castelli is expanding once again in the Sunshine State.

The spot, which recognizes the Christmas, Chanukkah and Kwanzaa traditions in addition to South Asian celebrations associated with the end of the year, is not only moving, but it is also leading the Spot Ten TV report from Media Monitors for the second consecutive week.

On December 19, with the company's shares closing at $10.58 per share, one major shareholder of Gray Television obtained a significant chunk of stock in a company many Wall Street observers believe is an undervalued NYSE-traded issue. Here's the rub: this big holder of Gray stock was purchased at an average cost of $17.82 per share.

With the clock ticking and the nation of Canada awaiting a decision, Canada's Competition Tribunal on Wednesday (12/21) confirmed that the wait will continue. And, it has nothing more to say about the matter.

That's a question Borrell Associates posed in its Fall 2002 survey of local advertising agencies, and the answer is great news for TVB leaders and those on the sales side of free-to-air television stations across the U.S. — in particular low-power stations in markets where opportunities abound.

It not only owns radio stations across Canada but happens to be a global music, media and technology company with commercial-free music stations found on such U.S. MVPDs as Hotwire. Now, two Stingray 'FAST' channels are heading to a growing U.S. OTT provider. 

All 19 Bally Sports RSNs will begin appearing "in the coming weeks" on FuboTV, the financially challenged operation with John Janedis as CFO that just suffered a cyberattack during a pivotal 2022 FIFA World Cup match.

Michael Nathanson, Senior Analyst at MoffettNathanson, admits that his Wall Street advisement house has painted "a grim picture" about the current state of linear TV thanks to accelerated cord cutting trends. Now, he laments, "We darken that picture even more." Brace yourselves.

Just how big the audience is for the locally owned television station serving Arizona's biggest DMA will now be the job of the company seeking to gain more TV measurement business from privately held Nielsen, which is in the midst of a major leadership restructuring.

FuboTV and the regional sports network home to the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets, Altitude Sports, in October secured a multi-year carriage agreement that will expand TV coverage of both teams. Now, there's more good news for FUBO, and it involves The E.W. Scripps Co.

It appears that Apple TV won't be chomping at the bit to get the digital streaming rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, putting Amazon Video in the driver's seat while YouTube could still emerge as a potential service home for the National Football League once its exclusive deal with DirecTV ends in three weeks.

As Monday morning began, the retrans impasse was over between the nation's No. 1 owner of broadcast TV stations and the NewsNation cable television network and one of the biggest MVPDs operating across the U.S.

Four months ago, there was much chatter that NBCUniversal was seriously thinking about dropping the 10pm hour from the NBC television network, handing it back to affiliates while O&Os took it for their own programming. Now, word has surfaced that the powers that be will not be erasing the 10pm hour from the NBC network lineup — at least not at this time.

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has sent a formal request to the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) to initiate a card count by a neutral third party on behalf of thousands of unionizing freelance TV Commercial Production department workers.