TV/Cable News

Here's the good news: The U.S. advertising market is expected to recover in 2021, new data from MAGNA show. Here's the bad news: "Linear ad markets" such as radio and TV will largely be left out of the COVID-19 pandemic's big recovery.

It received 2020 Emmy Awards in all seven of the major comedy categories—a first. Now, CBC sitcom "Schitt's Creek" is doing something else quite extraordinary: it's traveling to over-the-air TV in the U.S. after a successful run on an expanded basic cable TV channel and, subsequently, OTT deliverability via both Netflix and Amazon Prime.

With Nexstar shares flying high, the company founded and led by Perry Sook is poised to reveal its Q3 2020 earnings results on November 5.

Cox Media Group's provider of Over the Top (OTT) advertising to select national, regional and local advertisers has just selected two women to the roles of co-Chief Operating Officer -- enhancements it says will "drive enhanced innovation across the company."

The President/CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is the latest national figure -- and Washington-focused broadcast media leader -- to be added to the list of participants for Hispanic Radio LIVE!

Layoffs? Ad dollar deficits? Yeah, the radio industry is still suffering. But, their broadcast TV brethren have enjoyed a much swifter comeback from those late March and early April swoons -- in particular on Wall Street. In fact, the nation's No. 1 broadcast TV company by number of stations on Thursday saw its stock reach a fresh six-month high.

What happened last night during the 10pm newscast for a FOX affiliate owned by The E.W. Scripps Co.? A Program Note sent to iPhones said it was "experiencing an interruption due to technical difficulties." It turns out that was a bit of an understatement.

If you didn't think the return of the Court TV brand was limited to digital multicast distribution across the U.S., you're correct. There will now be access to true-life courtroom dramas taking place in America for those residing in the United Kingdom.

On Tuesday, RBR+TVBR reported that Nexstar Media Group subsidiary Nexstar Broadcasting intends to offer, subject to market and other customary conditions, up to $1 billion in aggregate principal amount of new senior notes due 2028 in a private offering. As dusk fell on Wall Street, Nexstar priced its offering, and set a maturity date for the notes.

NY Fashion Week concludes Thursday (9/17) with live streaming sessions through the midday hours. What does this have to do with television? It's all about added ad dollars, and how local and regional luxury brands may warrant a call from one of your AEs.

One of the nation's leading antenna manufacturers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, has launched a new engineering service that enables drone operators to fully and accurately characterize Antenna azimuth and elevation performance without special waivers from the FAA.

In most of the U.S., public radio stations that are members of NPR are largely unaffiliated with the PBS member stations in their market. That's about to change in Vermont.

Travel along Route 17, or Interstate 86, in New York's Southern Tier, and you'll pass through the Binghamton and Corning-Elmira markets. Here, Nexstar Media Group has a presence. Now, the nation's top broadcast TV station owner has a new leader overseeing its properties in each of these DMAs.

TVB President/CEO Steve Lanzano tackles a wide variety of top TV industry topics -- including how technology has helped drive broadcast television forward swiftly in COVID-19 times -- in this Podcast devoted to the TVB ALT FORWARD conference, presented by dot.FM. LISTEN HERE

The successful completion of TEGNA's private placement offering of $550 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.750% Senior Notes due 2026 has come. The news was accompanied by the announcement of a new Chief Diversity Officer at the broadcast TV station owner.