TV/Cable News

Do you have anything to share with the FCC regarding the proposed acquisition of TEGNA by Nexstar Media Group? Your opportunity to share your party's views on the blockbuster deal via an ex parte filing with the Commission has opened.

The weekly look at the actual amount of commercial airings per brand at both spot cable and spot TV is here, courtesy of iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors. And, at spot cable, there's a big push to increase consumption — and subscriptions — at Warner Bros. Discovery's key OTT streaming platform.

Some 45 years after a report produced while shadowing a full-time KTRK-13 news team member made it on the air, much to the News Director's anger, Melanie Lawson will be retiring from the ABC Owned Stations property in Houston. She shared her plans with viewers during Tuesday's 5pm newscast.

The individual that's behind the low-power TV licensee King Forward Inc. has finalized an asset purchase agreement that sees his company acquiring a pair of LPTV facilities serving Northern Nevada's biggest city.

One company is a specialist in service quality monitoring, program guide and metadata management, and data broadcasting systems for broadcasters. The other company is known for its broadcast media technology. Both have been selected to help usher in the ATSC 3.0 era at a division of Griffin Media.

In 1983, a former University of Florida swim team member took a job as a Senior News Producer at WTLV-TV in Jacksonville. He'd later serve as a News Producer at WTSP-10 in Tampa, and in 1993 relocated to Western New York to become News Director of WKBW-7 in Buffalo. Since October 1996, he's been based just to the east, in Rochester, N.Y. Now, Chuck Samuels is retiring, and the Sinclair Inc. stations will be getting a new leader.

Autumn grid-iron action and the blossoming of a new broadcast TV season helped over-the-air broadcast and cable television combat the ever-growing encroachment of digital and streaming platforms in October, fresh data from Nielsen found in its Media Distributor Gauge show.

With Standard Media unloading its TV stations following its failed attempt to merge with TEGNA, it sold the non-licensed assets of the ABC affiliate in Providence and two Paducah, Ky., area TV stations to the company led by Chris Ripley. Now, Standard Media has those stations and its Lincoln, Neb., property.

Nearly half of U.S. pay-TV households receive their service through internet-delivered platforms. That's the big takeaway from the new S.O.S. State of Streaming report released this week by Parks Associates.

Not only is Ryanne Saucier the VP of Legal Affairs at FOX Television Stations, but she also recently launched a podcast of her own that brings heart, humor, and honesty to the airwaves through conversations about grief, reinvention, and the often unspoken parts of becoming someone new after life falls apart.

Sinclair Inc. has been tasked with compensating plaintiffs in a case decided by an Illinois federal district court as a result of failing to retain such electronically stored information as text messages. It's tied to a antitrust lawsuit filed against the company tied to alleged price fixing of broadcast TV ads.

The parent company to Dielectric that's leading the march toward ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast standard conversion in the U.S. has over the last two months invested in a significant number of shares in The E.W. Scripps Co. On Monday, Sinclair continued its share-buying spree, a fresh SEC document shows.

What is a "framework for comprehensive reform" that the FCC should consider for broadcast television? One D.C. think tank suggests "the ideal deregulatory solution would eliminate outdated ownership restrictions and the retransmission-consent framework, which gives broadcasters regulatory advantages." 

Television viewership continued its seasonal momentum into October, with shifts largely attributable to the NFL, the October monthly report of Nielsen’s report known as "The Gauge" shows.

The latest Media Monitors snapshots of the most-aired commercials on spot television and spot cable have been released, and for the latter, one of the nation's leading home improvement retailers has powered itself ahead of all other advertisers — including one of the "Big Tech" and online retail giants.