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MoffettNathanson has long preached the dogma that live sports "are the glue to Pay TV and, as such, will be the least likely content to go over-the-top." Umm ... that's proving to be untrue, to some extent. Now what? That's the basis for this latest column to feature Michael Nathanson's view of where broadcast and cable TV could be heading.

With the biggest media merger in recent months poised to potentially propel its stock price in the coming months, Gray Television has selected the day it will release its fourth quarter and full-year 2020 financial results.

It's share price is now higher than where it was before the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in stay-at-home edicts and, with it, a sharp financial downturn on Wall Street, Broad Street and on stock markets across the globe. With that positive momentum, Nielsen Holdings plc's Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend.

"Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Networks has resolved and withdrawn the lawsuit against Charter Communications." That's the entire "official joint statement" released late Wednesday by both companies, settling a matter that dates back several years for the broadcast media mogul.

NBCUniversal is prepping "a new annual gathering designed to offer a global view of the insights, stories, entertainment, and technology connecting consumers to businesses." However you spin it, "ONE21" will combine "the magic of the media and entertainment industry with the strategic insights and solutions of a platform developer conference."

For two hours on Wednesday, the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) took to Zoom and conducted the first of its two virtual sessions comprising the 10th annual Cross-Platform Video Measurement & Data Summit. What did CEO Jane Clarke have to share?

For $925 million, Gray Television is grabbing all of the broadcast TV stations and the AM/FM radio combo in Quincy, Ill., owned by Quincy Media, Inc. To get the deal done, six QMI stations in markets where market concentration concerns are present will be divested. What stations will Gray gain?

The deadline to file the 2020 Annual Children’s Television Programming Report with the FCC is Saturday, January 30, reflecting programming aired during the 2020 calendar year. But, since this date falls on a weekend, you have until the end of day Monday to make your submissions, Scott and Lauren Flick of Pillsbury Law note.

As Cox Media Group stations formerly owned by Brian Brady's Northwest Broadcasting cheer their return to Suddenlink lineups across the U.S., Apollo Global Management-controlled CMG faces another retransmission consent battle. This one involves one of the nation's two direct broadcast satellite providers.

First, it was called ¡Levántate! - literally, Get Up! Then, it took on a new name and look under the name Un Nuevo Día, a change that brought a "new day" to Telemundo's network morning program. Now, NBC Universal Telemundo Enterprises is hitting the reboot button again as it struggles to gain audience against Univision's long-running Despierta América.

When it comes to Comcast's growth stories, the 33 million new Peacock subscribers seen since its launch six months ago is certainly worthy of all of the media's attention. What's perhaps more noteworthy, yet rarely discussed, is the success Comcast is having with Flex. What, exactly is Flex?

The media company that owns such stations as WUSA-9 in Washington, D.C., and WTSP-10 in Tampa has acquired a podcast network focused on sports. Here are the full details, courtesy of Streamline Publishing's Podcast Business Journal.

If you weren't yet convinced that the confluence of pro sports and gambling wasn't just more than a fad, Sinclair Broadcast Group has perhaps just made a move that will change that for good. The company has shed all vestiges of FOX Sports branding from its recently acquired RSNs by moving forward with their previously announced rebranding.

Four stations operated by Gray Television via a shared services agreement with their licensee now have new measurement services pacts with Nielsen. But, Gray had nothing to do with the contracts, as the stations' owner is responsible for inking such deals.

The President of CBS Television Stations and the stations' SVP of News have been suspended as parent ViacomCBS investigates an increasing number of allegations against them for gender and racial misconduct. The claims first came to light in a report penned by veteran journalist Meg James that appeared on the front page of Sunday's Los Angeles Times.