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Nielsen Holdings plc will issue its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 before the market opens on the final Thursday of 2022 — just as the last of the NAB Show attendees step off of their redeye flights back to the East Coast.

On March 10 RBR+TVBR first shared the news that Ronna Corrente, GM of WAVE-3 in Louisville since August 2021, was taking on a bigger role for the station's owner, Gray Television. The person now overseeing the day-to-day duties at the NBC affiliate in Kentucky's largest market is now known.

The pre-event frenzy tied to the NAB Show has reached a level perhaps unlike any previous conference. Companies galore are preparing to greet media executives on the expo floor and at offsite suites. Other C-Suiters will be on panels, or hosting press conferences -- as is the case for Sinclair Broadcast Group.

They were once MSNBC co-anchors. Today, Lester Holt is the anchor of the NBC Nightly News while Ashleigh Banfield hosts an eponymous news and insight-driven chat program on Nexstar Media Group's NewsNation cable TV network. They're reuniting ... sort of.

As Hearst Television sees it, it's a time of "profound technological evolution" for television broadcasting. As such, the free-to-air station owner has created a fellowship program designed to recruit young engineering and IT talent to the industry. And, Hearst is doing so in honor of a longtime top engineering executive.

The owner of Bally Sports RSNs, over-the-air television stations and broadcast transmitter maker Dielectric will reveal its first quarter 2022 financial results on May 4. Ahead of that full look of the company's performance in the first three months of the year, Sinclair Broadcast Group released preliminary media revenue results for its broadcast segment.

Talk about a market leap. Since October, he's been VP/GM of the ABC affiliates owned by The E.W. Scripps Co. serving the Waco-Temple-Bryan, Tex., DMA. On May 2, he'll be taking his talents to South Beach.

The newest look at the Spot Ten Cable action among advertisers, by spot play count, is out from Media Monitors. The biggest takeaway? While auto insurance specialists remain big users of the media, QSRs are triumphing as a leading category for MVPDs.

Now that the combination of Televisa and Univision Communications is complete, so is the "redesign" of the team structure of the TelevisaUnivision communications team. This sees the arrival of a SVP of Corporate Communications of an individual most recently in the role of VP/Corporate Communications, Public Affairs & DE+I at Cox Media Group.

As Discovery's C-Suite sees it, "The new leadership team draws on a diverse set of leaders from both organizations, provides continuity and creates a flatter organizational structure to drive creativity, accountability and collaboration."

Sinclair Television Group has confirmed that it intends to enter into an amendment to its credit agreement to provide for, among other things, the incurrence of new term loans. There's a reason for this, the Sinclair Broadcast Group subsidiary explains.

Outside of Canada, CTV is understood as "Connected TV." From Prince Rupert to St. John's, however, it's known by just about everybody as one of Canada's top TV networks. Now, however, CTV is upping its CTV game — thanks to Roku.

One of the heralded benefits of ATSC 3.0 is the "Broadcast Internet" capabilities that could power everything from a municipal traffic lighting system to providing educational needs to students with poor broadband connectivity. ARK Multicasting seeks to be among the first licensees to capitalize on this tech advance.

In May 2019, Manship Media CFO Ralph Bender welcomed Media Finance Focus 2019 attendees alongside Bonneville International Corp. Controller Melissa Mitchell at a well-attended New Orleans event full of panel discussions. Then came COVID-19. Now, three years later, Media Finance Focus is poised to return for MFM and BCCA.

The information from Nielsen, which is mulling a takeover bid while shopping around for a better offer, offered the data in its first-ever "State of Play" report, which highlights the increasing boom of video content in both linear and streaming in recent years.