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"A renewal and expansion agreement" is now in place that will see Gray Television use Comscore measurement services "for the vast majority of its market footprint." Comcast EVP Steve Walsh says his company "looks forward to continuing to help drive their stations' revenue and profit."

A full-power television station owned by Illinois-based Quincy Media, Inc., has escaped a financial penalty for its failure to comply with the limits on commercial matter in children’s programming.

It appears that the dollars may begin flowing back to disgruntled sports pay TV subscribers in a year where live sports took a severe hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. Bloomberg reports "more than $1 billion" in the form of refunds and credits will be issued as compensation for the many pandemic-related sports cancellations seen in 2020.

The debate over whether social media platforms should be held accountable for ensuring the content they carry is “truthful” continues to rage. As AEI adjunct scholar Bronwyn Howell notes, fact-checking is costly. As such, internet platforms are attaching warnings where there is any doubt about content. Should broadcasters do the same, whether online or on the air?

Thanks to data from iSpot.tv, one can now look at year-over-year television ad impressions for Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday for several key holiday shopping categories. Here's the sour news: four advertiser classifications saw ad impression dips, some of them significant. But, two companies enjoyed strong year-over-year impression boosts.

TV viewers in the nation’s 12th largest television market will get a taste of the future, as a quintet of local broadcast television stations have banded together to launch NEXTGEN TV. A FOX O&O, along with Scripps, Nexstar and TEGNA properties, are involved. It is a Hearst unaffiliated TV property that is serving as the host station.

A chief sticking point between Dish and Nexstar Media Group, the nation's No. 1 broadcast TV station owner on a new retrans agreement is cable network WGN America. Dish says it is being forced to carry the offering as part of a new retrans deal, and calls it "a channel that has experienced declining viewership in recent years." Don't tell that to Alphabet Inc.

The FCC's Media Bureau is now seeking comment on a Petition for Declaratory Ruling and Petition for Rulemaking filed earlier this month by the NAB that asks the Commission to clarify and, to the extent necessary, change the licensing treatment of a NEXTGEN TV station's multicast streams under the NEXTGEN TV local simulcasting rules.

It’s had a permanent waiver of the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule as it pertains to the ownership of New York’s FOX affiliate and a daily newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801. Now, FOX Corporation wants its second TV station in New York to also be covered by a permanent waiver. Should it? You now have more time to tell the FCC.

At 2pm Eastern on Thanksgiving Day, many Americans were enjoying the holiday in various ways. For Colorado-based Dish, the moment was seemingly appropriate to lob a stink bomb in the direction of the nation's largest broadcast TV station owner, accusing it of setting the stages for the "largest local station blackout in TV history."

Members of the Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. have elected three veteran industry executives to serve on the ATSC Board of Directors for a three-year period. Their terms begin in January 2021.

In the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV report, just two auto brands can be found. The bigger story is the department store sector, which spent heavily -- and reportedly suffered from soft Black Friday traffic.

The sale of publishing business Simon & Schuster by ViacomCBS was an event many expected would occur sooner or later, following the reunification of Viacom and CBS Corp. under the direction of majority shareholder National Amusements, Inc. On Wednesday, ViacomCBS officially said goodbye to Simon & Schuster. It's earning billions from the divestment.

Why is TV advertising trending this much better and is it sustainable? That’s a question that noted Wall Street observer Michael Nathanson, Senior Analyst at MoffettNathanson, asks in a new investor note.

Don't look now, but Nexstar Media Group is well on its way to scoring another all-time high for its publicly traded shares. With Monday's close, NXST is at its highest price since the early days of March. In fact, it is up 91% from its closing price on March 18.