TV/Cable News

Take a glance at the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV report, and you'll see one matter of fact as clear as today: auto insurance brands are as competitive as ever.  And, they're spending money at spot TV.

New research from groupM finds that more than half of its respondents believe it is important to be equipped with the latest technology. An even greater percentage of respondents think that either they or a family member should be the only ones with access to health and fitness tracker data -- an interesting privacy concern that media companies may wish to take note of, for slightly different reasons.

On the north shore of pristine Lake Tahoe is Incline Village, Nev. It's a part of the Reno, Nev., DMA. That's key to understanding why Gray Television just agreed to purchase a couple of low-powered TV stations serving a town along Route 28 known for a nearby ski resort. 

Deposed LBI Media founder Lenard Liberman, for a song, agreed to purchase four TV properties in a deal made necessary as majority ownership of Univision Communications passed on to SearchLight Capital Partners and ForgeLight. That spinoff deal, brokered by Kalil & Co., has now closed.

With the deal, Scripps is, as expected, combining ION's assets with the Katz networks and Newsy to create "a full-scale national television networks business." Together, the national networks will reach nearly every American through free over-the-air broadcast, cable/satellite, over-the-top and digital distribution, with multiple advertising-supported programming streams.

TEGNA and Comcast-owned FreeWheel have announced a new multi-year deal "to further transform and automate the way TEGNA’s buyers and sellers transact" — including through CTV/OTT advertising platform Premion.

In May 2006, Cox Communications completed its sale of cable television systems serving customers in West Texas, a portion of North Carolina, Middle America., and two California markets. This gave birth to Suddenlink, which is apparently in a retrans consent fight with the new Cox Media Group. On Wednesday afternoon, Suddenlink responded.

Not long ago, dissident TEGNA investor Soo Kim was thwarted in his attempt to gain a seat on the company's board, place his own members on the board, and essentially assume control of a company he had little faith in. Now, as 2021 unfolds, TEGNA's C-Suite is taking stock of its COVID-era accomplishments. And, it's CEO is pretty darn proud of them.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, South Asians seeking programming tied to their culture had access to Ravi Kapur's Diya TV on the DT2 signal of KTSF-26. Soon, local viewers will now have another way -- and, perhaps, easier way -- to view Diya TV.

One day after announcing it has scored a new affiliation agreement with NBC, the TV station owner formerly known as Gannett has inked a multi-year renewal agreement with Nielsen.

Jack Schwartz (pictured), is the GM of one of the nation's biggest TV stations serving Asian-Americans, with programming in some seven languages, including Mandarin Chinese, airing on the broadcast facility. Now, it will benefit from audience measurement services from the nation's foremost supplier of ratings currency.

Unless you're from the Land of Lincoln, you likely haven't ever heard of Argenta, Auburn, or Hoopeston. Thanks to small-market MVPD Sparklight and the owner of the FOX and The CW affiliates serving these towns, they're now in the national spotlight. Why? A retransmission consent impasse has impacted a licensee that's given sales and services control to Sinclair.

There will be nearly 2 billion active subscriptions to on-demand video services in 2025. That's the key finding of a new report by U.K.-based research and analytical services firm Juniper Research -- and good news for broadcast TV station owners.

The Media Bureau has said yes to a media company's Petition for Declaratory Ruling seeking FCC approval to exceed the foreign ownership benchmark. It's a victory for a Burbank, Calif.-based entity focused on Hispanic consumers reborn one year ago, when it exited bankruptcy, changed its name, and said goodbye to its founders.

In morning trading on the Nasdaq GlobalSelect market, Nexstar Media Group shares were trading above the $110 mark. Should NXST finish at that price, it will conclude a healthy recovery effort for the broadcast media company's stock that began in mid-April, just days after Nexstar shares fell to their lowest levels since October 2016.