TV/Cable News

In the Florida Keys, there's a station called WKIZ. It's a digital low-power TV facility, and is a sibling to a Class A digital TV facility also serving the Conch Republic. Paul Garber has been the Manager of the stations' licensee. Thanks to a deal finalized just before Christmas, a reorganization in the stations' ownership is moving forward. This puts David and Penny Drucker in the driver's seat.

Corpus Christi, Tex.-based Mako Communications found itself with a group of low-power TV stations with a unique trait: the deadline to build them isn't until 2023. It decided to sell them, attracting a variety of buyers and prices. Now, it has a buyer for a facility serving the home of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. 

In February, an agreement was struck that would see the sale of a pair of South Dakota TV stations to a broadcast ministry. It was a deal brokered by Kalil & Co. Now, the sale — greatly influenced by Gray Television‘s 2020 acquisition of the intellectual property associated with that 33-year-old broadcast station — has just been completed.

Jeff Winemiller and his Lowcountry 34 Media has been divesting low-power television stations in various locales across the U.S. for more than a year. Among those transactions is the June 2020 sale of W26DT-Din Myrtle Beach, S.C. Now, Lowcountry 34 Media is engaging in another deal involving the same buyer.

The capital of the Keystone State has its first locally based NEXTGEN TV station. And, for those who have televisions capable of receiving the non-backwards compatible signals powered by the new ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard, turbo-charged ABC programming courtesy of the local affiliate can be seen.

Alpha is the first iteration of Nielsen ONE, a company spokesperson says. It will continue to evolve with new feature additions, enhancements, and model improvements leading up to the launch of Nielsen ONE in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Four broadcast TV stations serving Southwest Missouri have become the first in the market to offer local viewers NEXTGEN TV stations. The launch of the ATSC 3.0-powered signals involves Nexstar Media Group's local stations in Springfield, Mo., the Mission Broadcasting property Nexstar operates, and Gray Television.

Ravi Kapur, the entrepreneur who has been snapping up low-power TV stations across the U.S., in 2014 purchased the station today known as KRDK-TV. Ownership of the COZI TV affiliate has had its challenges -- namely, carriage on two MVPDs serving Fargo. A fresh FCC decision will likely resolve that issue.

With Howard University-owned PBS Member station WHUT-32 as the "lighthouse" station, NEXTGEN TV is now available in the National Capital Region. To help usher in the new era of broadcast TV in the Washington, D.C., market, LTN Global was brought in as a partner.

The deal signed by Lilly Broadcasting includes Nielsen Scarborough, and incorporates not only the Erie and Elmira-Corning, N.Y. stations Lilly owns but also "WSEE-CBS," the satellite-delivered CBS affiliate serving Puerto Rico.

Starting Jan 1, 2022, pure-play measurement company iSpot will be able to use the 20 million device footprint from LG Ads Solutions. The cross-platform TV ad measurement company, which offers real-time data to its clients, could use the intelligence to compete against both Comscore and Nielsen — or at the very least augment their audience measurement information.

Just how many dollars have been generated in the 12-month period ending September 2021? Kantar has the answer, and the figure is in the $3 billion range. One AVOD platform gets the majority of those dollars.

In November, Gray Television revealed its new local leadership slate, which outlined who would be leading a host of stations it was acquiring from Meredith Local Media. Among those changes was the move from Southern Arizona to Mobile, Alabama of Eric Duncan to take the GM position of FOX affiliate WALA-10. Now, Gray has decided who will succeed Duncan in Tucson.

The TV and cross-platform measurement and analytics firm founded by CEO Kristin Dolan has launched an independent media trading currency that the company believes offers an alternative to ... you guessed it ... Nielsen. As 605 sees it, it is designed "to underpin advertising transactions between partners on the buy-side and the sell-side."

The man who once led the HC2 Station Group and is now at the helm of Sovryn Holdings has just signed off on the latest purchase of a low-power television station. It's a sign that Philip Falcone desires a second stab at building a group of properties that can benefit from broadcast internet and the non-broadcast rewards that come with ATSC 3.0 technology.