CIMM Readies Leadership Transition
The 12-year-old Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) will be getting new leadership within the first three months of 2022. That's because the organization's CEO and Managing Director who has held the dual roles since CIMM's 1999 creation is retiring.
Sinclair Grabs Lenders’ Outstanding Diamond Sports Loans
The broadcast media company that among its holdings includes Bally-branded regional sports networks has just purchased and assumed the rights and obligations under an accounts receivable securitization facility of Diamond Sports Finance SPV.
Broadcast TV Aflurry With Holiday Spots
Yes, Veterans Day is Thursday. Yet, it already looks and sounds a lot like Christmas. With Hanukkah arriving on November 28, retailers are already in high gear on gift-giving ideas. For two brick-and-mortar department store brands, the ad activity surged in a significant way.
Nexstar’s Upcoming Dividend Gets Wall St. Notice
For investors, getting in to Nexstar Media Group would involve purchasing the company's stock at a record high, as NXST has surged from $57.73 in March 2020. For Simply Wall St., snapping up shares today may still be beneficial. Why? Nexstar is going ex-Dividend next week.
Three Ex-Entravision Markets Go No-Nielsen Under Univision
On Friday, it became known that audience measurement services in three Univision markets it is gaining from Entravision will be delivered to the nation's largest Hispanic-focused multimedia company exclusively by Comscore.
TEGNA Responds to Dish ‘Bad Faith’ Fight with FCC Cross-Complaint
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.
DISH Shares Plummet As Q3 EPS Misses By Pennies
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 Shares On The Rise Despite Q3 Miss
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.
NBCU Local Station Apps Added To Amazon Fire TV
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.
New York Festivals 2022 TV & Film Awards Now Accepting Entries
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.
Eight TV Owner Groups Sign On With VUit
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.
Sovryn Secures Two More Mako LPTV CPs
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.
A Gray NBC Affiliate Returns To Air After Vandal’s Squelch
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.
Supply Chain Concerns Aren’t Hurting Nexstar
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 Commits Funds For ‘Business Equity’ Show
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."














