TV/Cable News

The TV broadcasting company formerly known as Gannett on Thursday announced preliminary financial results for Q4 -- as well as the successful completion of its previously announced $1 billion private placement eight-year senior note offering, priced at 4.625%.

The CBS affiliate serving Madison, Wisc., is no longer accessible to AT&T U-Verse subscribers. That's thanks to a retransmission consent stalemate between the cable TV service provider and Morgan Murphy Media. Viewer comments appearing on the TV station's online advisory page are less than positive.

LG Electronics, a co-developer of the ATSC 3.0 next-generation television standard, has effectively kicked off the era of NEXTGEN TV with the introduction of six advanced new LG OLED TV models equipped to receive new services with enhanced content, pictures and sound.

From his March 2007 appointment as a regional vice president through the completion of Raycom Media's January 2019 merger with Gray Television, Brad Streit has played a pivotal role at two of America's biggest broadcast television companies. Now, Streit -- a longtime Tyler, Tex., TV executive before rising at Raycom -- is saying goodbye to the industry.

There will be no loss of access to Nielsen's suite of measurement services for the nation's biggest operator of broadcast TV stations, and the company behind digital multicast offering Antenna TV and cable TV network WGN America.

At what point to Americans say STOP! to OTT? New research sheds a light on just how many streaming services U.S. consumers are willing to pay for.

Ed Ansin has seen a lot as the owner of twin Channel 7 operations in Miami and in Boston, where his Sunbeam Television also owns the CW Network affiliate. At age 83, Ansin's not ready to slow down, he tells The Boston Globe.

With its rocky 2019 behind it and stable leadership under two-month EVP/CEO Bill Livek restoring confidence in stockholders, Comscore is reinforcing its desire to serve as a "trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms" by signing up television broadcasting companies as clients. Comscore on Friday got a big vote of confidence from the company led by Hilton Howell Jr.

A low-power TV station in Ohio's state capital offering digital multicast network Bounce on its main signal and Telemundo, Justice Network and Quest across three DT signals has just been sold. The buyer may surprise you ... or not. It's no stranger to television, but has focused its efforts until now on two cable TV networks.

The linear television market, on a two-year compound average growth rate (CAGR) basis, was down 1.5% for the whole of the 2018-19 season on an average weekly ad spend metric. Standard Media Index calls this a moderate decline in advertiser demand, and it fails to keep pace with "much larger supply losses" — a.k.a. TV viewing. When combined, advertiser CPMs are up.

Will consumers flock to crystal-clear coverage of live events including sports and local news, along with network fare across the once-coveted prime-time hours, once next-gen TV signals arrive and they've purchased a new TV set capable of receiving such signals? Broadcasters say yes, and an International Telecommunications Union decision may very well solidify that belief.

Here's the good news: Sinclair Broadcast Group's stock will finish 2019 ahead of where its started the year, by nearly $4.50 per share. Here's the bad news: The second half of the year was full of consistent declines that erased healthy growth seen through early July for the TV station owner that now has the former Fox regional sports networks.

With the clock ticking down on 2019, Suddenlink viewers could start the new year with no access to any TEGNA-owned station. For MVPDs within the National Cable Television Cooperative, it is FOX Corporation networks and O&Os that could get the axe. Both situations involve retransmission consent agreements that have yet to come to fruition.

When it comes to the products getting the most exposure via spot television for the week ending Dec. 29, nothing beats Guaifenesin. Well, at least the cold medication and cough suppressant that goes by a particular brand. According to Media Monitors, it's the big No. 1 advertiser in its latest TV report.

So, who are the top 10 advertisers of 2019 by ad spend? How much did these companies spend on TV advertising? Ad sales business intelligence firm MediaRadar crunched the numbers, and has revealed the details just in time for New Year's Eve. One interesting takeaway: There were more than 2,000 newcomers to television advertising in 2019, including PostMates.