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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.

If shareholders are the ultimate arbiter on how a publicly traded company performed in a fiscal quarter, than today's activity on the NYSE for TEGNA shares is a sign that its Q4 2019 earnings aren't to their liking. TEGNA stock plunged as Tuesday's Opening Bell rang on Wall Street, and couldn't recover.

Television attribution firm TVSquared has launched what it calls "an industry-first platform to power always-on attribution across all forms of video advertising, proving which media and creative placements are driving sales, conversions and business outcomes."

The "Streaming Wars" have begun as more Direct-To-Consumer platforms hit the market and vie for consumer attention. But, the industry likely has questions, and a newly released Nielsen report addresses many of them.

Many worries were expressed about a decision by Cox Media Group to cut daily circulation of its three newspapers in the Dayton DMA impacted by the Third Circuit remand, and erasure, of cross-ownership rule changes championed by the Ajit Pai-led FCC. Now, it has a solution: Keeping the newspapers in the family, but under a wholly different ownership group.

While it might have taken a little longer to get there, Wall Street analyst Michael Nathanson believes this quarter marks an important turning point for Fox’s narrative. "Put simply, we believe our thesis that Fox has unrivalled pricing power and stickier viewership is right and we expect Fox to build upon this momentum and outperform its peers," he notes. Fox’s story, as Nathanson sees it, comes down to two main drivers.

On its own, Sinclair Broadcast Group has done much to help bring about the voluntary transition to ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast signals for the U.S. television industry. Now, it is becoming a full-fledged member of a TV industry consortium dedicated to bringing what is now branded as "NEXTGEN TV" to full public consciousness -- and, ultimately, to their video delivery devices.