TV/Cable News

It's perhaps the ugliest retransmission consent impasse seen in recent months. On Friday, TEGNA took things up a notch by going to the FCC by filing a cross-complaint against Dish for what it says is "its failure to comply" with the Commission's "Good Faith" rules.

The direct broadcast satellite company presently at war with broadcast TV station owner TEGNA over a new retransmission consent agreement suffered a severe gut punch on Wall Street, following the release of Q3 2021 results that failed to live up to analyst forecasts. At the Closing Bell, Dish Network shares were down by 14%. One analyst was left head-scratching, wondering what the fuss was.

Discovery Inc. shareholders appear to be satisfied with the company's third quarter results, despite falling short on analysts' EPS estimates and coming in just shy of the Zacks Consensus Estimate on revenue.

Through the NBC and Telemundo station apps on Fire TV, users can access content produced by 11 NBC owned stations, 23 Telemundo owned stations and New England Cable News (NECN), including local news, weather and investigative reporting.

The 2022 TV & Film Awards Storytellers Gala will take place at the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 26, 2022. This is the 12th year of NYF’s strategic partnership with NAB Show. All NYF TV & Film Award winners have access to the multi-day event which is the world’s largest global gathering for the media and entertainment industry.

A subscription-free, ad-supported national streaming video service backed by Gray Television has signed what it calls "major agreements" with eight station groups and independent TV station owners. The deal brings local programming and content from 71 over-the-air stations to the VUit platform.

In early September, RBR+TVBR first reported on the sale of a low-power CP that doesn’t need to be built until 2023 in Boise, Idaho. The property is one of several put on the market by Corpus Christi, Tex.-based Mako Communications. And, the buyer was an entity headed by the former CEO of HC2 Holdings. Now, a second deal has been consummated between the two parties.

The NBC affiliate serving the Panama City, Fla., viewing area turned to the air on Tuesday afternoon, two days after being crippled by a vandal's act that made operations all but impossible for the Gray Television-owned station.

It was Wolfe Research analyst John Janedis who was first in a Q&A period during Nexstar Media Group's Q3 2021 to ask about supply chain concerns at its advertisers. Nexstar's CEO and CFO each acknowledged that there is an impact. But, Chief Financial Officer Tom Carter says growth in 14 of 25 categories is "more than making up" the loss.

DuJuan McCoy is offering a three-year commitment to provide more than $1 million in platform distribution and media resources to produce and broadcast a program dedicated to economic opportunity and "business equity."

There's a new leader on the Spot Ten TV report from Media Monitors. And, just in time for the holiday shopping season, it is the biggest retailer in the U.S. that is strutting its stuff.

In this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, LPTVBA Executive Director Michael Lee offers a comprehensive update on why his organization seeks passage of the "Local Journalism Sustainability Act" as low-power television stations attract buyers ranging from The E.W. Scripps Co. and Gray Television to entrepreneurs including LPTVBA founder Frank Copsidas and South Asian TV programming specialist Ravi Kapur. LISTEN HERE

There's a new VP/GM for the CBS and The CW Network affiliates serving Boise, Idaho. New to the Sinclair Broadcast Group duopoly in Idaho's biggest market is the former VP/GM of the CBS affiliate serving Champaign, Ill., a Nexstar Media Group property.

The Board of Directors at the Northern Virginia-based broadcast TV company that's reportedly considering bids from Byron Allen and from a partnership between embattled investor Soohyung Kim's Standard General and Apollo Global Management has declared a shareholder dividend.

Ad-supported streaming local television news service Haystack News has helped bring The E.W. Scripps Co.-owned Newsy expanded reach on the platform the digital multicast network originally used to connect with consumers — an "OTT" app.