TV/Cable News

Sinclair Broadcast Group has chosen the individual who will succeed company sales veteran Dan Mellon, who retired on July 31. It's an individual with more than 25 years of experience in the broadcast and cable industry.

During the live webinar, "Video Explosion! How to Sell More in 2021," Marketron representatives will explain the differences between these critical digital tactics and how sales teams can use them to enhance the value of their proposals and capture a greater share of rapidly growing video advertising revenues.

A small broadcaster with TV stations in its home market of Salisbury-Ocean City, Md.; adjacent city Dover, Del.; Bowling Green, Ky.; Glenwood Springs, Colo.; and two Georgia markets in June 2020 agreed to a transaction involving Jeff and Janet Winemiller. Now, the Winemillers are selling another property to this company — this time a LPTV facility serving Nashville.

For more than 10 years, New York Spectrum Holding Company has engaged in the acquisition of low-power broadcast TV stations. In recent weeks, Wong has emerged as a seller, and has agreed to spin LPTVs in Florida to Ravi Kapur. Now, Wong is exiting Houston.

It's a key position that involves the retransmission consent agreement reached with DBS providers DirecTV and DISH, and with every MVPD across the U.S. And, Sinclair Broadcast Group — presently gearing up for a war with DISH — has given it to a Senior Corporate Counsel in that role for six years.

Given what Analyst Michael Nathanson calls Disney's "relatively flat share price performance" through the first 8 1/2 months of 2021, his Wall Street financial house believes there is "ongoing tension" in the market between those that look at the drivers of Disney’s Earnings Per Share and those that look at the drivers of Disney’s valuation multiple.

With a Phoenix rollout in the works, ahead of additional markets, the individual behind Evoca, Edge Networks President/CEO Todd Achilles, offers an exclusive update in this new InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM. LISTEN HERE

TEGNA-owned ABC affiliate WFAA-8 in Dallas is readying a move in 2022 from its streetside studio in the Plaza Towers building at Victory Park. The facility, which dates to 2007, also houses a group of stations owned by one of the biggest radio broadcasting companies in the U.S.

HC2 Holdings, which amassed a sizable portfolio of low-power TV stations under former head Philip Falcone, has just shed the last vestiges of that era. As of last week, it has a new name: Innovate Corp. The news arrived along with the company's Q2 earnings report.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has moved forward with giving a Latin boost to its Peacock OTT offering and the individual streaming platforms tied to its broadcast and cable TV networks by creating a Hispanic Streaming division. Who's leading it? A woman who joined NBCU in 2012 through its E! operations.

Its merger with Gray Television is on track to close within a matter of weeks. But, that hasn't stopped Meredith Corporation from signing a new deal for local TV ratings from the nation's dominant source of audience measurement and consumption data.

GatesAir, known for its wireless, over-the-air content delivery products used by radio and TV stations across the U.S., has joined forces with Pearl TV and Howard University to bring NEXTGEN TV service to Washington, D.C.

A veteran journalist who joined CBS News in 2019 as Managing Editor of "CBS This Morning" has been selected to serve as the Sr. VP of Standards and Practices for ViacomCBS's CBS News and Stations Group. It's a new role.

It may have a fresh retransmission consent battle on its hands with Sinclair Broadcast Group. But, that's nary a worry for DISH investors. The direct broadcast satellite company making significant inroads in the cellular services and 5G world beat Q2 2021 earnings per share estimates by some 17 cents. DISH also beat Wall Street predictions on Q2 revenue.

It owns such key broadcast TV stations as WUSA-9 in Washington, D.C., and NBC affiliates including KPNX-12 in Phoenix, WGRZ-2 in Buffalo, and KGW-8 in Portland, Ore. It also owns the Premion over-the-top (OTT) advertising platform. How did TEGNA perform in Q2 2021? Its quarterly revenue and adjusted EPS beat Wall Street forecasts.