TV/Cable News

A syndicated service reported via Nielsen’s NPOWER audience insights platform has been launched. Introducing Streaming Video Ratings from the nation's dominant audience measurement and data analytics firm.

Linear TV – a.k.a. broadcast and cable channels – remains the most-often watched media. But, social video is close behind, and just behind that is YouTube and Facebook Watch. What does this mean for the broadcast TV station owner? Broadbeam Media's Director of Strategy and Research offers up the answer in this RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.fm. LISTEN HERE

One of the nation's two direct broadcast satellite (DBS) TV services providers just took a further step toward becoming a much broader operator — and a better competitor to the traditional MVPD. It is thanks in part to the selection of an Amazon.com company to help get the job done.

Deloitte just released the results of its 15th annual Digital Media Trends Survey. It reveals how COVID-19 and shifting generational preferences are reshaping the U.S. media and entertainment landscape. How this may impact the future growth of broadcast television and radio makes this essential reading for your organization.

The owner of The Weather Channel and a growing collection of broadcast TV stations including the ABC affiliate for the Hawaiian Islands has just launched a free streaming ad-supported service steeped in local news. It's available on most major platforms, bringing information on demand through another "over the top" offering.

Haven't had much luck locating the Estrella Media-owned Spanish-language broadcast TV network on your MVPD's channel lineup? Here's another way to view it -- one that may work for you, or TV viewers in your market.

The latest results from Kantar's report focused on "Entertainment On Demand" service in the U.S. is out, and it only further illustrates just how many consumers are paying for a SVOD service.

The California Public Utilities Commission has unanimously voted to approve a MVPD engaged in a "Good Faith" complaint with Gray Television to emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The decision comes three months after the FCC gave its blessings.

Seven weeks ago, Nielsen and Roku shared details about "a new strategic alliance" that the companies believe will help shape the future of media and TV measurement. This saw Roku purchase Nielsen's Advanced Video Advertising business.  As of today, that transaction is now complete -- as is the transition of Kelly Abcarian.

For 16 years, she's been a key executive at Nielsen, rising to GM and Head of Product Advanced Video Advertising in January 2019. For 12 years, he's been a product development leader who in April 2019 ascended to the role of GM and Head of Product for Audience Measurement. Both will soon be former employees, presenting Nielsen with, perhaps, a new challenge.

On March 25, a FCC filing indicated that Marquee Broadcasting Group had agreed to acquire a trio of low-power television construction permits, two located in Albany, Ga., and a third licensed to Augusta, Ga. It now appears the Augusta station is heading to a different buyer, a newly filed asset sale agreement from HC2 Holdings-controlled DTV America shows.

The media consumption data-focused company seeking to chip away at Nielsen's dominance in the broadcast TV industry has just secured a renewal agreement with a broadcast online software and information provider — allowing it to use a platform to aggregate as-run television schedules from its affiliates.

A little more than 50 years ago, the FCC settled a mutually exclusive hearing for a construction permit for UHF Channel 45 in Baltimore. It was awarded to an entity named "Commercial Radio Institute," led by controlling shareholder Julian Sinclair Smith. With that Commission OK, the birth of Sinclair's first station came to be.

A new technology that gives sellers the ability to deliver video advertising on an addressable basis across platforms from a central decisioning center -- bridging linear and digital video delivery methods -- has been launched by Comcast's FreeWheel arm.

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