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As part of its continued expansion across over-the-top and pay TV platforms, The E.W. Scripps Co.'s Newsy has added its full slate of news programming to the live and on-demand streaming service that includes Mark Cuban in its investor roster.

The number of pay TV subscribers worldwide will have risen by 345 million when looking at a 15-year period concluding in 2025. Yet, that growth picture is heavily clouded by data showing global pay TV revenues falling to a level in 2025 that's lower than what was seen in 2010. What's even more disturbing is the drop in U.S. pay TV revenues forecast for 2025.

On September 8, RBR+TVBR shared the story of how a Public, Education and Government (PEG) broadcaster serving the island of Hawai’i, known as “the Big Island,” expanded its coverage to include more sports. On Thursday, the TV operation got a lot more publicity than it ever thought it would: FBI agents raided the station.

As RBR+TVBR reported on Thursday, Gray Television commenced what was intended to be an offering of $550 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2030. It turns out that the offering was more popular than anticipated, as an upsizing has occurred, resulting in pricing that's very favorable for the broadcast TV company.

Thanks to the establishment of a "new normal" for its share price, and Q3 earnings due Nov. 5 that could fall in lockstep with a broadcast TV revenue rebound, Gray Television has initiated a more-than half-billion-dollar offering of senior notes due 2030.

What are the FCC's filing deadlines for eligible entities to submit remaining invoices and documents for reimbursement from the TV Broadcaster Relocation Fund? We now know, thanks to a public notice distributed Wednesday by the Commission.

Ad-supported Video on Demand (AVOD) service Haystack News, offering viewers reports from local broadcast TV stations' newsrooms, has updated its personalized news ticker.

A company that considers itself to be a VOD pioneer in December 2019 filed a patent infringement actions against AT&T, DirecTV and Dish Network — actions that involves four patents covering streaming media innovations specifically tied to VOD services using the set top box and mobile app technology. Now, this same company has sued Amazon.

On October 27, the FCC will hold its Open Meeting, again virtually. The affair will see the Commission updating its rules to make sure, in the words of Chairman Ajit Pai, "more television programming is accessible to Americans with disabilities."

What sort of impact, even a minor one, could the coronavirus have on the local TV ad market in a year when record political ad dollars were predicted through mid-March 2020? Ad, research, analytics and planning firm SQAD sought the answer to this question in a recent study, shared Thursday (Oct. 1) at TVB ALT FORWARD 2020. Here are the conclusions.

“In the 50 years since CPB established PBS, the organizations have worked together to provide a valuable service to the American people and to ensure that public television maintains the highest standards of quality, accessible to all,” said CPB head Pat Harrison, who congratulated PBS on its anniversary.

The media company superserving Black consumers has commenced a private offer to "certain eligible noteholders" that will see it replace old debt with new debt -- at a higher interest rate.

We've heard it time and time again: the brands that don't cut the budget during times of economic crisis will come out ahead at the conclusion of an economic downturn. Perhaps there are no better examples of companies that have followed this wisdom than Rocket Mortgage and Ford -- each of which expressed their love of TV at Thursday's TVB ALT FORWARD conference.

The recently launched youth-focused digital multicast network from NBCUniversal is now widely available on one of the biggest OTT platforms in the U.S., greatly widening its potential audience.

These changes, the Pai Commission, declared, "will make consumer notices more meaningful and accurate, reduce consumer confusion, better ensure that subscribers receive the information they need to make informed choices about their service options, and reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens." Translation: It's a rule directly tied to retrans negotiations gone sour.