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The next-generation digital television signals, which offer improved sound and picture quality for consumers along with new revenue opportunities for broadcast media, make their debut on Tuesday in Hartford.

A "real-time platform" for measuring the business and brand impact of cross-platform television advertising has agreed to purchase a real-time television ad measurement company that specializes in products for D2C and direct response TV advertisers.

While many broadcast media leaders lament how the "GAFAN" group of digital media Goliaths have grabbed dollar after dollar from their over-the-air stations, resulting in advertising challenges, it turns out that the top brand using Spot Television for the week ending October 10 is one of those "GAFAN" giants.

The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report is out, and it shows brand stability across the rankings by play count. The report also shows that two brands that have been active in the past at Spot Cable are now back in a big way, thanks to new campaigns.

In mid-August, RBR+TVBR first reported on the purchase of construction permits for low-power television stations located in the Southernmost City in the United States and in the heart of the Coachella Valley, respectively, by The E.W. Scripps Co. That deal, brokered by Bob Heymann of the Chicago office of Media Services Group, has just closed.

"Video cord cutting is expected to strip nearly $33.6 billion in annual revenue from traditional U.S. multichannel services" by the end of 2025. That's according to a report released this week by Kagan.

Nielsen, which offers streaming content and ad measurement in its role as the nation's dominant ratings and consumer data supplier, is congregating its streaming measurement tools under a single platform. This, Nielsen explains, will include both ad-supported and subscription-based service models across content, ads and platforms.

“We’ve seen a significant increase in streaming throughout the past year — with ad-supported content, in particular, generating incredible growth,” said Iván Markman, Chief Business Officer of Yahoo. This explains why the heritage online brand has expanded its partnership with FOX Entertainment's AVOD service known as Tubi.

The organization that represents some 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals has reached a tentative three-year agreement for a new contract with the NBCU unit.

Happy Diwali ... and earnings release day, Gray Television investors. The broadcast TV station owner has finalized the date and time for the distribution of its Q3 2021 fiscal report card. What can investors expect to see from Gray? We review the company's forecast.

A weather-focused OTT offering designed to draw viewers to its live online stream, via apps or on a web browser, will be launched later this month by FOX. And, it has lured away a WABC-7 in New York weather anchor.

The Bay Area entrepreneur who once appeared on-camera at KGO-7 in San Francisco and today is behind the Diya TV operation targeting South Asian consumers recently grew in Florida, and in late April agreed to buy a construction permit for a LPTV facility in Chico, Calif. Now, Kapur is expanding his holdings by traveling north to Redding.

Media Financial Management Association’s "Media Outlook 2022," designed to prepare financial professionals in the broadcast radio and television industries for the coming year, is gearing up for a two-day virtual event scheduled to begin in two weeks.

Centered in understanding local assets and needs, each station will collaborate with community partners to develop and build a “Learning Neighborhood” that fosters a community-wide culture of learning at home, in the neighborhood, and within local systems and spaces.

The pro-MVPD American Television Alliance (ATVA) on Friday filed brief reply comments in response to the FCC's quadrennial review. To perhaps little surprise, the group, which counts ACA Connects as a member, blasted broadcasters for having "largely repeated" old arguments in support of their desire to relax or eliminate the duopoly prohibition.