TV/Cable News

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.

In 2015, TEGNA established an internal initiative designed to combat the growing instances of "fake news" reaching its consumers. Now, it is fortifying that fight by expanding its efforts against the spread of "disinformation" by hiring a managing editor responsible for leading VERIFY’s editorial growth across all platforms.

As summer turned to autumn and fall turned to winter, Americans once again found themselves in front of their screens with few linear options — aside from live news and sports. In contrast, Nathanson says, consumers had access to "an unlimited bouquet of increasingly excellent streaming content choices." Is broadcast TV losing the content war to "SVOD"?

One week ago, the nation's chief lobbying group representing small, and small market, MVPDs held court with the office of the newest FCC Commissioner. What did ACA Connects discuss with representatives from Nathan Simington's office? Consolidation in the broadcast television industry and retransmission consent matters.

In one of the final acts of the Pai Commission, the FCC on Tuesday adopted a Report and Order modifying technical rules to promote the expanded use of distributed transmission systems, or single frequency networks (SFNs), by broadcast television stations.

"Linear TV viewing is at a crossroads, given the shift away from scheduled, appointment viewing on TV, but consumers are voracious when it comes to wanting to stay informed," Nielsen says in a new report released for the virtual NATPE Miami conference. "That elevates the opportunity for news programming across local, national and cable."