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With its relaunch of CBS All Access as Paramount+, growth at Pluto and promoting Showtime OTT to help offset linear declines, analyst Michael Nathanson says ViacomCBS harbors a heightened focus on becoming "a scaled global competitor" in the business of streaming. There's just one question about ViacomCBS's goals that's vexing to him.

The multi-year agreement comes as a result of this media consumption analysis company's expanded data rights, "driving increased measurement stability, as well as continued improvements to its television measurement products."

Until recently, Entravision was largely viewed by the industry and by investors as a Hispanic-focused company with revenue equally derived from its digital, television and radio divisions. That's no longer the case. The company's Q2 earnings results demonstrate that digital is, by a very wide margin, the revenue driver today.

Graham Holdings Company on Wednesday released its second quarter results. But, how did the Media division perform within this highly diversified company that has its historical roots linked to Catherine Graham and The Washington Post? We took a look at the details.

With Tuesday's creation of a new company named DIRECTV, following its spin from AT&T, will broadcast TV companies including Cox Media Group, TEGNA, Hearst and Cowles benefit when their next round of individual retransmission consent agreement talks start?

If you receive your cable TV services from Cox Communications, there's no fear of losing access to any ViacomCBS-owned station anytime soon. In fact, Cox customers are gaining access to the company's collection of streaming services.

In the words of Zacks Equity Research, the second quarter 2021 results from Discovery Inc. "delivered earnings and revenue surprises" to the tune of 53.7% and 3.1%, respectively.  Yet, Discovery shares dipped below $27 a share in early trading on Tuesday and were off by 5% as of 11am Eastern. What are investors concerned about?

With today's closing bell on Wall Street, the mega-deal of 2021 was officially done: Gray Television is now the owner of the QMI stations not spun to Allen Media Group.  And, it formally marks the end of an era — and the leadership of Ralph Oakley.

Travel east of Ames, Iowa, and you'll reach Marshalltown. Here, a Class A digital television station is being sold. The buyer? It's the company that owns the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee, and the CW affiliate in Chicago — among many other enterprises, including the "MeTV" brand.

The donation-based IP-fueled local TV service that the "Big Four" broadcast TV networks love to hate and the NAB despises has just entered its 36th DMA. It happens to be the home of the National Basketball Association's 2021 World Champions.

Gray Television enjoys a presence in Ohio's largest market, Cleveland-Akron, thanks to its ownership of CBS affiliate WOIO-19 and WUAB-43, the CW Network affiliate — former Raycom Media stations. Now, Gray is expanding in the DMA by adding the property found on virtual Channel 6.

Nexstar Media Group is riding high as it prepares to release its Q2 2021 earnings report on August 4. Now, its board of directors has responded with a rich reward to its shareholders of record as of August 13.

Two days ago, Zacks Equity Research analysts predicted that American Tower Corp. would likely beat Wall Street estimates with a strong Q2 2021 performance. It turns out that Zacks was absolutely correct in its assessment, with its quarterly funds from operations, or "FFO," easily beating Zacks' calculations.

Allen Media Group-owned free-streaming platform Local Now has added the first "alpine lifestyle and ski/snowboard culture content TV channel" to the lineup. It's the latest example of how "FAST" channels are quickly becoming the visual answer to the fast-growing podcasting industry.

Consider it the next phase of a longstanding partnership between the Spanish-language media company poised to merge with Mexico's Televisa and the widely known Hispanic Mixed Martial Arts sports franchise. Terms were not disclosed by privately held Univision.