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From April 20 and across next week, AI attribution-focused tech company Veritone will host five separate webinars ranging from content and ad intelligence to ad attribution, to intelligent media management, and to monetization. The first event has the broadcast television industry in mind. Plan ahead by making time on your daily planner for this information opportunity.

Want to know what essential local businesses remain open for customers in your town? If it is one of roughly four dozen markets where Gray Television has stations, you're in luck. The broadcast TV stations have launched their own interactive, online local business directories.

Its transmitter facilities are in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. But, it is not a TV station in the most traditional sense, thanks to a channel-sharing agreement with another television station, a VHF facility. Now, the operator of these stations is formally grabbing its channel-sharing partner, officially creating a duopoly in the nation's biggest DMA.

The nation's biggest owner of broadcast television stations has chosen the date and time it will reveal and discuss with Wall Street financial analysts its Q1 2020 results. What can investors expect to hear from the company founded by Perry Sook?

Access to measurement services from Nielsen will be had for all of the local television stations owned by The E.W. Scripps Co., thanks to a new multi-year agreement announced Thursday.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic hasn't thwarted broadcast media company Gray Television from finalizing its plans regarding the release of its Q1 2020 fiscal results. A date and time are affirmed. What can investors expect?

Last week, RBR+TVBR's Weekly Tech Roundup was first to share the details on how a brand-new $125 million media center for NBCUniversal's Boston operations center includes System T consoles, from Solid State Logic. Now, Solid State Logic has installed similar consoles at the station that used to serve Boston with NBC programming.

In a reassuring internal e-mail distributed Monday afternoon to all Gray Television staffers, the company says it intends to do what it did during the Great Recession of 2008-09: avoid any staff reductions or pay cuts. The decision comes in stark contrast to what has been seen at several large radio broadcasting companies in the last three weeks.

At NATPE Miami, all were abuzz over a Debmar-Mercury syndicated chat show featuring the popular hip-hop host. Now, a debut date has been set for Nick Cannon's eponymous program, with commitments from multiple ownership groups.

Given the current economic and industry uncertainty impacting media owners, are NFL’s network partners rushing back to the bargaining table any time soon? Wall Street analyst Michael Nathanson is asking and it's unclear to him. That said, there is one thing MoffettNathanson has noticed: the cost of NFL rights is certain to sky-rocket for the three broadcast networks that own the rights.

A new series that "celebrates the Southern lifestyle" covering topics ranging from food and cooking to holidays and style will bow this weekend across all of Meredith Corp.'s owned and operated stations. The show features host Ivy Odom, a Recipe Tester/Developer based in Birmingham, sharing recipes, decorating tips, home and gardening advice and more.

Kagan, the media research unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence, has fielded its first COVID-19 era U.S. media survey. Participants were queried on a number of subjects, including what sports fans are watching and which streaming services look the most enticing during this time of quarantine. The results could be of benefit to broadcast TV stations seeking to avoid coronavirus coverage fatigue.

A seven-year impasse between AT&T-owned DirecTV and U-Verse and Charter Communications has ended. This means that, once life returns to normal, Dodgers games airing on Spectrum SportsNet LA can now be viewed by subscribers of the respective pay-TV services.

A multi-year renewal agreement has been signed that will allow Sinclair Broadcast Group's properties to use a series of measurement services from Nielsen across all of its over-the-air television stations, its regional cable news channel, its 22 soon-to-be-rebranded regional sports networks (RSNs), "several" digital multicast networks, and The Tennis Channel.

How Americans perceive the coronavirus outbreak and view media coverage differ by their main news source, new research from Pew Research Center's Journalism & Media arm finds. That said, the study looks at the nation's three nationally distributed pay TV "news" networks, which until early March were largely focused on Washington politics and opinions.