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It's been a busy few months for The E.W. Scripps Company. It completed its purchase of ION Media, with integration of its properties ongoing. Its conducting a "special virtual investor presentation" on March 3 to help attract more Wall Street dollars. Now, with its share price on fire, the company has shared when it will share its Q4 and FY 2020 results. 

Haystack TV's ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) streaming service focused on newscasts is widening its content by signing a distribution agreement with Bloomberg Media. It increases the number of live streaming channels on Haystack News to 18.

A privately held owner of television stations on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Georgia and Kentucky has signed a multi-year local television measurement services agreement with Nielsen.

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"Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Networks has resolved and withdrawn the lawsuit against Charter Communications."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.