TV/Cable News

In a move designed to shore up investor confidence -- and take advantage of what the C-Suite likely believes is an undervalued stock -- the CEO of the company that owns 17 television stations in markets such as Phoenix, Nashville and Portland, Ore., has purchased 10,000 shares of his employer's common stock on the open market. The purchase by Tom Harty is valued at $289,000.

The affiliate boards of directors of ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX Television will once again hold meetings during the 2020 NAB Show, still on schedule for April 18-22 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The CW Network will also host meetings with their affiliated television station representatives.

His campaign's Spot TV efforts keep growing, and a national Spot Radio campaign kicked off in earnest last week. Now, the Mike Bloomberg for President campaign is throwing money into Spot Cable. The latest Spot Ten Cable report from Media Monitors shows a huge uptick in plays for the week ending February 23.

The Board of Directors of Nielsen Holdings plc has declared a quarterly cash dividend of Nielsen's common stock. The dividend is payable on March 19, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Thursday, March 5.

The newly renamed Estrella Media, which recently shed all ties to the Liberman family that founded the operation as LBI Media, is celebrating a major win by aligning its flagship broadcast TV station with a Major League Soccer franchise born in the autumn of 2014.

On January 27, Entravision Communications shares dipped below the $2 mark. Since then, the Hispanic-focused multimedia company has had difficulty getting its stock moving upward, after years of decline. On Thursday, a 2.7% dip only exacerbated matters for Los Angeles-based Entravision.

For 25 1/2 years, David Loving was an integral leader within the Univision Television Group, serving as Univision Media/Houston SVP/GM since August 2010. As of March 2, Loving will now be leading the two Des Moines properties owned by the company formerly known as Gannett for the last 11 months.

Ordinarily, financial analysts Michael Nathanson and Craig Moffett open their quarterly "Cord Cutting Monitor" with a big picture state of affairs, "where numbers are counted in the millions and where percentages of accelerating share loss for traditional TV offer a panoramic view of change: the growing normalization of cord-cutting." For Q4 2019, they've opted to provide "a more instructive" start to their report.

No matter the election outcome, ad spend will continue to increase. This means marketers will need to spend more time strategizing how to best navigate the ever-changing political influence landscape and rising spot costs, says guest columnist Paul Jackson of Marketing Architects.

There will be no network affiliation changes in the works for the four Cox Media Group properties airing FOX Network programming. A multi-year agreement has been reached between Apollo Global Management's reborn CMG, led by CEO Kim Guthrie, and Fox Corporation.

In October 2018, Media Information Bureau featured columnist Ken Benner wrote about a “most remarkable reporter” at his local NBC affiliate, KVOA-4 in Tucson. Benner singled out Matthew Schwartz for his “extraordinary content” as an investigative reporter. Benner recently reconnected with Schwartz, and offers a renewed acclamation for the KVOA mainstay.

A multi-media, multi-year measurement deal between Nielsen and Entravision allows Nielsen to provide "a comprehensive suite of measurement services for all of Entravision’s local television stations," which will include Local TV ratings, Nielsen Local TV View, audio ratings, and digital ad ratings for the Hispanic consumer-focused broadcasters stations across 22 markets.

The New York Festivals TV & Film Awards competition has revealed its 2020 competition Finalists. More than 200+ award-winning Grand Jury members from international broadcast and film companies selected this year’s Finalists, chosen from entries submitted from over 50 countries.

In the summer of 1995, Corey Stevens and Texas Flood were being pitched as an act to consider if you were a fan of Stevie Ray Vaughn. The A&R rep at Eureka Records pitching the group's single? Joel Wertman. Today, Wertman is far from Hollywood but very much involved in a media company with its hand in music and a focus on a visual future fueled by 5G just as much as ATSC 3.0.

A pair of SEC filings made Wednesday show suggest that broadcast television companies still merit investment by institutional investors. The latest Schedule 13G notices of note involve Gray Television, Urban One and The E.W. Scripps Co.