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Meredith’s NBC affiliate in Music City USA partnered with the American Red Cross and CMT to raise nearly $400,000 in an effort to help rebuild the Germantown and East Nashville areas affected by fierce tornadoes that tore through Nashville and surrounding areas in the early hours of March 3.

It's a good news/bad news announcement for sports fans: An agreement has been reached that will give YouTube TV consumers access to 19 regional sports nets that will soon be rebranded from FOX nomenclature. But, the Internet TV service is dropping two of the RSNs — as well as the Yankees/Nets' YES Network.

BIA has adjusted its local political ad forecast for this year from an earlier estimate of $6.6 billion this past fall. Media across the board are in for a nice slice of the action — and Mike Bloomberg's departure as a candidate may not result in any significant loss in election ad dollars for radio or TV.

Jeffrey Wlodarczak, the Principal and Entertainment/Interactive Subscription Services Analyst at Pivotal Research Group, likes what he sees at DISH Network. As such, he's just raised his rating on the DBS provider-turned-wireless services carrier upward, while Wlodarczak reiterated his year-end 2020 price target.

Did you know that one of the burgeoning podcast industry's most popular conferences starts Friday in Orlando? The 2020 Podfest Multimedia Expo is a major event, and Podfest Chief Creative Officer Chris Krimitsos has all of the details from the Sunshine State about an event that radio broadcasting companies may wish to put on their radar -- if they haven't done so already.

Retransmission consent revenue is still a fiery topic for members of ACA Connects, which represents small and independently owned MVPDs. For broadcast TV companies, it is a growing profit generator that can help combat declines in spot advertising revenue. What's the retrans revenue outlook for the E.W. Scripps Co.? One analyst has an answer.

Not concerned about the threat of the coronavirus-fueled COVID-19 sickness on your business? Perhaps a close look at a just-released investor note on Comcast Corp. from Pivotal Research Group Principal and Entertainment/Interactive Subscription Services Analyst Jeffrey Wlodarczak is worthy of your attention. Wlodarczak reduced his 2020 NBC expectation, and for a number of reasons.

Wall Street analyst Michael Nathanson recently reviewed cord-cutting trends and its impact on MVPDs and now senses "another crucial consumer trend" — the shift in linear consumption from non-live to live content. As Nathanson observes, this shift has been wreaking havoc on the underlying economics of networks for some time now. 

It's hardly a secret that the Mike Bloomberg for President campaign has emerged as a major spending machine on broadcast TV. Now, the Bloomberg campaign is ramping up its activity on spot cable, surpassing 40,000 spot plays for the week ending March 1.

In January, the FCC's Media Bureau instructed the licensee of a New York market TV station to refile a market modification petition on the grounds that it was lacking in one significant area. That petition was dismissed, and the licensee quickly moved forward to remedy the situation and submit a new TV market modification request. Policy Division Sr. Deputy Chief Steven Broeckaert has made his decision.

Sinclair Broadcast Group on Aug. 23, 2019 closed on its purchase of FOX regional sports networks. As such, some 23 MVPD-distributed channels carrying the FOX brand in some way are now fully meshed into the Sinclair stable. This will, in the coming months, result in the shedding of any channel name tied to its former owner. Meanwhile, YouTube TV is dropping Sinclair's RSNs on Saturday.

Graham Media Group and the Miami-based ABC affiliate presently managed by a Berkshire Hathaway company have launched a new initiative expressly created to combat what it believes are nothing short of "fake news" campaigns targeting local media. Here's what "Verified" is designed to do.

Discovery Communications, by all accounts, had a solid fourth quarter. It's per-share earnings surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by five cents, while also narrowly beating Zacks' Q4 revenue projection. That couldn't stop investors from selling the MVPD-heavy company's stock.

On the same day that Gray Television announced that it is taking a minority stake in TEGNA-owned connected TV and “over-the-top” (OTT) advertising business PREMION,  NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations revealed that its 42 NBC and Telemundo broadcast stations will be fully integrated into a new advanced video ad business -- designed for local/regional CTV and OTT advertisers.

The board of directors of Cincinnati-based television broadcaster The E.W. Scripps Company has authorized a new share repurchase program. At the same time, it declared a cash dividend for the first quarter of 2020 — two days ahead of Scripps' release of its Q4 and full-year 2019 financial results.