TV/Cable News

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.

The offering of the Notes, done to allow Gray to finance its acquisition of Meredith Corp.'s local media group, is expected to close on November 9, subject to customary closing conditions. At that time the proceeds of the offering will be funded into an escrow account.

This increase in coverage, Nielsen and Roku say, helps content owners and advertisers navigate the expanding world of TV streaming and is "a major milestone on the path to Nielsen ONE, Nielsen’s transformative, cross-media solution that will enable advertisers and publishers to transact using a single metric across linear and digital television."

As the Media Rating Council sees it, its accreditation is "the primary mechanism for transparency and accountability in advertising and media measurement." But, what exactly is "accreditation," and how does the process work? A webinar scheduled for Wednesday aims to explain all.

For those with moderate to severe eczema, there's a pharmaceutical product that's gotten a lot of exposure thanks to a spot television campaign. Total up those spots, and this brand tops them all in the latest Spot Ten TV report from Media Monitors.