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FreeWheel is rolling out a new Certified Partner Program, which certifies and organizes buyers, sellers, data partners and technology partners within FreeWheel’s platform to create a more efficient and effective media supply chain for the TV ecosystem.

The nation's largest broadcast television station company's board of directors wants it. Now, it is being put in the hands of its shareholders. Two classes of Nexstar Media Group common stock face extintion.

Ravi Kapur, once a member of the KGO-7 in San Francisco news team, has a formidable group of LPTVs through his Major Market Broadcasting. Now, he's adding two more LPTVs to his stable.

While the Spot Ten Radio report for the week ending January 30, 2022, points to a potential slowdown for brands, the latest Spot Ten TV offers a stark contrast as to how diverse the paid ad mix is at broadcast television.

Nexstar Media Group’s Board of Directors have taken an action that’s become something of a rarity in the broadcast media world.

For more than four decades, the Westgate Resort Hotel — formerly the Las Vegas Hilton — has played host to the low-power TV industry association's "LPTV Reception" held in concert with the annual NAB Show. This year, with non-NAB events filling the booking calendar at the Westgate, the popular event has been moved to the other side of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Gray TV will now be using Comscore’s audience data as primary selling currency across 199 stations in 96 markets including its largest, Atlanta, and will serve as Gray’s exclusive currency in 95 of those markets. It's bad news for Nielsen, which remains the television industry's dominant provider of audience measurement and consumer psychographic data.

It is known for creating "fresh, insightful and responsive content for multi-platform audiences from diverse backgrounds." Now, it has revealed the three PBS Member stations selected as Regional Digital Centers of Innovation.

A low-power television station serving the Redding, Ca., area is being spun to an operator known for its radio, TV and digital offerings focused on Christian-themed programming. The purchase will help in bringing additional offerings from "theDove" to a region known officially as "Jefferson."

Just how many people were tuned to CBS, and to the Gray Television-owned affiliate in Kansas City showing the Chiefs' overtime victory over the Buffalo Bills, one of the greatest in NFL history? The numbers were massive, and were strong nationally for another huge game seen on CBS the day before.

Nearly four years after seeking a review of a Media Bureau decision thwarting the company's fight to get one of its stations on DirecTV and DIsh in communities close to one of its station's city of license, Gray Television has voluntarily withdrawn its petition.

In a move designed to strengthen the position of an affiliate of The CW Network against the ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates in Indianapolis, DuJuan McCoy-owned Circle City Broadcasting has moved forward with the relaunch of an 11pm newscast at one of his two properties — a sign that WISH-8's local news presence seeks to be unrivaled.

DirecTV is today the lone home in the Denver DMA for Altitude Sports, as Comcast and DISH have each been unable to secure respective carriage agreements with the sports network's parent. A "revolutionary" NextGen television service could bring Altitude for those who don't wish to wait for a possible deal with Comcast.

Nexstar and ViacomCBS have reached comprehensive multi-year agreements to renew the existing CBS Television Network affiliations in 39 markets across the country. That's not prevented an affiliation switch from transpiring in the biggest city in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, to the benefit of Lilly Broadcasting.

Netflix shares were down by more than 21% in Friday's trading, as investors reacted harshly to disappointing Q4 2021 subscriber results, which missed forecasts. Yet, there's dissent among just how poorly Netflix is performing. According to one industry observer, "Netflix’s performance is superb when you consider the crushing competition encroaching on what used to be a fast growing, greenfield market."