TV/Cable News

Meredith Corp., the owner of 17 broadcast TV stations, will present at the upcoming UBS Global TMT Conference. Other sessions of note include a session with ViacomCBS head Bob Bakish and a breakfast event featuring AT&T Chairman/CEO Randall Stephenson.

Some 80% of the world's broadcasters are considering implementing ads tailored to the consumer but are increasingly falling behind streaming services due to hesitance around adopting cloud technologies. That's the chief finding from research carried out on behalf of ATEME, a video delivery provider for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT.

The company that calls itself the "leading audio company in the U.S." has selected Music City U.S.A. — Nashville — as the location for its second digital headquarters. The move by iHeartMedia widens its current New York-based digital team, creating new jobs in the process.

Despite what you may have seen prior to Halloween, the official holiday shopping season has begun. As such, some of the nation's key brick-and-mortar retail chains are putting their dollars into spot television to reach consumers. Which department store comes out on top?

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the President/CEO of ViacomCBS." That's how Bob Bakish will likely be introduced when he participates in a Q&A session during the upcoming UBS Global TMT Conference in New York -- to be held just five days after CBS ceases to exist as an independent company.

A just-released research study concludes that U.S. households with TV dropped by four million over the past decade. "The drop is surprising," says InMyArea Research. Why? The U.S. population grew by 20 million people between 2009 and 2019.

When the clock turns on 2020, investors in Sinclair Broadcast Group may be pleased that the company's shares are higher than they were a year earlier. That said, it has been a topsy-turvy 11 months for Sinclair, with its stock presently struggling to overcome a six-month low.

At the center of the dispute is STELAR’s compulsory license, which permits satellite providers to retransmit some broadcast signals at regulated prices without consent. Cutting to the chase, Phoenix Center's Chief Economist asks if broadcasters should charge whatever retransmission fee the market will bear.

There'll be no worries about any potential "great affiliation swap" in any of the markets where Nexstar Media Group and its joint operating partner Mission Broadcasting have stations. That's because Nexstar and Mission have a new affiliation deal in hand with NBC.

What's the biggest focal point that the nation's top TV broadcasting industry leaders have their eye on, going into 2020? Perhaps Fox Corp. SVP Joe Di Scipio says it best. "Surely, it's the competition for eyes." Thus began a lively Media Bureau TV trends symposium held Thursday in Washington.

The individual who has served as VP/GM of Nexstar Broadcasting's CBS affiliate WIVB-4 and co-owned CW affiliate WNLO-TV in Buffalo is leaving Western New York. Where's he going? Indianapolis, where he'll lead Nexstar's duopoly in the market, created from the Tribune merger.

In a closely watched vote, the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning passed the "Satellite Television Community Protection and Promotion Act of 2019." The vote comes a day after the House Energy & Commerce Committee unanimously passed the Television Viewer Protection Act. 

Brian and Kevin Lilly's Erie, Pa.-based Lilly Broadcasting has closed on its acquisition of an over-the-air station serving the U.S. Virgin Islands. As such, religious programming airing on the main broadcast channel is gone. But, the ABC Caribbean feed remains, as CBS is added.

Sinclair Broadcast Group shares dipped below $37 a share in Tuesday's trading after investment house Stephens slashed its price target on the media company's stock. Why? It is concerned about Sinclair's acquisition of regional sports networks (RSNs) from Fox.

Wearable tech continues to gather pace, building an ecosystem of connected devices designed to capture consumer attention to the tune of $108 billion by 2023, a new industry report from Futuresource Consulting finds. What does this mean for over-the-air media such as radio and television? Is there opportunity?