TV/Cable News

With July 1 approaching, a bevy of advertisers have opted to ramp up new marketing efforts by attracting viewers of cable TV companies through spot activity. Among the brands bumping up their spot plays for the week ending June 26 — Ashley HomeStore.

On April 4, "Cincinnati Bell Extended Territories LLC" — known to customers as altafiber, filed a retransmission consent complaint against the licensee of the Miami Valley's biggest broadcast TV station. The licensee of that facility, Cox Media Group, responded to the FCC's Media Division. The Policy Division Senior Deputy Chief was ready to rule on the matter. But, he won't have to.

Exactly three years ago, RBR+TVBR reported on the purchase of a Miami-based digital Class A television facility by HC2 Holdings for $4 million. Then came a non-consummation notice with the FCC, leaving the seller back to square one on divesting the South Florida property. A new deal has just been agreed to.

It serves Southern Oregon cities such as Ashland and Medford as a CBS affiliate. But, in a digital TV world, it has over-the-air signal penetration issues due to its presence on digital VHF channel 10. A move to the UHF band would cure this ill, and Sinclair Broadcast Group has successfully been given an OK from the FCC to make the adjustment.

Horizon Media is "testing" a local TV measurement tool from Comscore as a new form of currency for 2023 planning and buying — a move that puts more pressure on Nielsen as advertisers and media companies seek the best audience ratings in a world with multiple screens and cross-device consumption.

Cox Media Group has agreed to bring the home of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the Olympics en español to the Pacific Northwest's biggest DMA and to one of the fastest-growing markets in the Southeast.

One is the nation's first television station and a color TV pioneer, too. The other is its younger sibling that serves as The CW Network affiliate for New York's Capital District. Both have a new VP/GM and it is an individual who rises from Director of Sales.

The company with EVP/CFO Lee Ann Gliha — voted by RBR+TVBR readers as the Top Broadcast Best Finance Leader of 2022 — in the chair since August 2021, has engaged in a refinancing effort. Could it provide a new spark to Nexstar stock, which has seen year-over-year growth and remains one of the broadcast media industry's best Wall Street performers despite a $20 per-share loss seen over the last 30 days?

Cross-channel TV advertising firm Simulmedia has lured the Chief U.S. Advertising Sales Officer at Warner Bros. Discovery to its Board of Directors. He's been associated with Discovery since 2018 and for 18 years before that was a key Scripps Networks Interactive ad sales leader.

Its privatization, with control going to a partnership between Standard General and non-voting equity holder Apollo Global Management, is coming. That hardly stopped TEGNA shareholders from approving the re-election of several members of the company's Board of Director, OKing an advisory resolution on executive pay, and ratifying the appointment of an outside auditor.

It's being hyped as "latest major milestone in NBCUniversal’s efforts to shape the future of measurement." The media company's Executive VP for Measurement and Impact, former longtime Nielsen figure Kelly Abcarian, shared details on Tuesday of a new certification for emotion and ad quality within the NBCU measurement framework.

Nexstar Media Group (NXST) is a stock many investors are watching right now. It currently has a "Strong Buy" rating at Zacks Equity Research, and boasts a Value grade of "A." There's more Zacks shares, as it seeks to provide investors with a recommendation on whether or not they should snap up shares come Tuesday morning.

Want to get a first look at the Bally Sports Plus streaming service that Sinclair Broadcast Group is putting the finishing touches on at this time? Five DMAs will get their respective OTT platforms on Thursday (6/23) as part of a soft rollout.

Earlier this month, representing the LPTV Broadcasters Association, its founder and President Frank Copsidas attended the ATSC 2022 NextGen Broadcast Conference in Detroit. "I came away excited about ATSC 3.0, and how far it has developed over the last year," he says. "While my head was swimming with information, I have boiled it down to the core of what I absorbed in straightforward terms."

NBCUniversal and Apple have expanded a longstanding partnership by giving NBCUniversal the exclusive advertising reseller rights for both Apple News and Apple Stocks in the United States and, for the first time, the United Kingdom.