TV/Cable News

Media technology and video transport network solutions specialist LTN Global has acquired a company known for its work in remote production and in the development of 4K television technologies.

The man who until recently served as VP/GM of the CBS affiliate in Atlanta owned by Meredith Corp. has been selected to serve in a similar role for the flagship television property operated by family-owned Morgan Murphy Media.

The facility has a term of three years and enables the Sinclair Broadcast Group-controlled Diamond Sports Group indirect subsidiary to raise "incremental, low cost funding" by selling certain receivables on a revolving basis to Diamond SPV.

New research shows that nearly 60% of children are multi-tasking while watching TV - an increase of just over half when compared to the same survey conducted six months prior. While the results indicate that TV is still the dominant platform for TV and video viewing, it raises questions around current engagement levels in a multi-platform world.

With Thursday's announcement that The E.W. Scripps Co. is merging with ION Media, investors responded with tempered celebration. Shares in SSP were up in pre-market trading, but down across the day.  Still, Wall Street observers are hailing the marriage -- including a Kagan senior analyst.

Since late 2017, Katz Networks has been wholly owned by The E.W. Scripps Co., and now it will be matrimonially paired with ION Networks, thanks to a blockbuster merger announced early Thursday. What this means for many other companies, including Univision in Miami, is the underreported side of this $2.65 billion transaction.

In 2006, Radio & Records officially became a part of the Billboard family, as its then-owner VNU acquired the venerable trade publication from investor Richard Perry. It was an unlikely deal that many saw coming three years earlier. Now, another unlikely marriage has taken place and it's perhaps even more striking, considering its impact on the TV and film industries.

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.