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Two Fletcher Heald & Hildreth attorneys on Wednesday (10/14) teamed up with the head of the Florida Association of Broadcasters and representatives from the FCC and the former FEMA Administrator for a webinar dedicated to broadcast operations in a time of heightened public concern.

A next-generation television service that is taking shape in Idaho's largest city has initiated the first over-the-air broadcast in the U.S. of a 24/7 4K UHD channel. It's being done thanks to ATSC 3.0, the new digital broadcast standard powering NEXTGEN TV and the data capabilities associated with it.

The Walt Disney Company is moving forward with a major strategic reorganization of its media and entertainment businesses. Wall Street analyst Michael Nathanson's attention was immediately grabbed, and he has some thoughts on what it means to advertisers, consumers and media company investors. "Disney will essentially now have two revenue centers," he says.

The release of The E.W. Scripps Co.'s third quarter financial results come as the company's stock seeks to establish a "new normal" on Wall Street, with values fluctuating between $10 and $12 over the last several weeks.

Here's a first, according to DoubleVerify: Inclusion & Exclusion lists for CTV, thanks to a new tool that allows brands to target, or avoid, specific CTV apps. It's yet another must-read for broadcast TV stations struggling with ways to offer addressable advertising solutions for its clients.

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.