TV/Cable News

A daylong summit will include morning sessions programmed by MFM for finance professionals working in film, television, OTT, mobile, digital, games and other content companies. The afternoon session features a discussion of the future of retail.

No less than three deals involving TV stations in Wyoming are being filed with the FCC and are expected to appear in the CDBS this week. The trio of transactions saw Kalil & Co. serve as the exclusive broker in each of these station trades.

"Fox’s early life as a new company has been nothing short of disappointing." Ouch. That's the assessment of the reborn Fox Corporation from Michael Nathanson, who laments that Fox has been hurt by multiple headwinds. As such, it has been able "to prove the superiority of their strategy and assets."

A debtor-in-possession that owns an unaffiliated full-power TV station serving a small Georgia market to the south of Atlanta has struck a deal that will send this onetime ABC affiliate to a new owner. The buyers: A husband and wife ownership group based in Maryland's Eastern Shore.

A new Nielsen study examines how consumers lean into delayed viewing of TV content over broadcast and cable. It found that the proliferation of ways to view content has also helped influence them to be more patient viewers, tuning in past live, same day and even seven days.

In a brief announcement distributed Sunday,  DISH Network confirmed that it has reached a multi-year carriage agreement with Fox Corporation for its owned-and-operated local stations, as well as FS1, FS2, BTN, Fox Soccer Plus and Fox Deportes. The pact ends a week-long tussle.

With Procter & Gamble Co. Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard on Friday calling for media transparency during an ANA Masters of Marketing keynote address, two P&G brands are making their mark with consumers through a heavy investment in the most traditional form of visual content delivery.

Yes, GEICO is once again at the top of the Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable chart. And, it accomplished the feat with some 77,191 spot plays accounted for during the week ending Oct. 6. That said, one big quick-service restaurant chain had a huge week at Spot Cable.

Way back in the early 1940s, shortages of equipment and materials were a serious impediment to the introduction of new broadcast services. "Today, however, this is obviously not the case," he says. That's why the FCC will take up a broadcast antenna siting NPRM at its next Open Meeting.

ACA Connects-affiliated leaders on Oct. 2 were inducted into the 53rd Cable TV Pioneers at the group’s annual dinner, held at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans. Joining the Cable TV Pioneers are individuals from Schurz Communications and Patriot Media, among others.

TV news coverage of political events is some of the most watched programming in the U.S. In fact, viewership of news events related to political topics rivals even the most popular sporting events. That's one key insight from a new VAB report, which examines the appetite for news and the corresponding rise in ad spending.

Are U.S. cable companies charging consumers a little bit more than they expect every time they get a monthly bill? That's a suggestion made by watchdog publication Consumer Reports in a new investigation that finds MVPD "charged numerous costly fees."

The television broadcasting company formerly known as Gannett is continuing to fend off a "blackout" of its stations across all Spectrum cable TV markets. At the same time, it has disclosed that the CEO of the entity that's just entered into a partnership with Emmis Communications will become "actively engaged" with TEGNA.

For a decade or so, Meredith Corp. has had a CFO that played a significant role in negotiating and securing financing for several large acquisitions -- including the purchase of TV stations in four markets. Now, this financial C-Suiter is heading into retirement, and has started a transition period set to extend into early 2020 while Meredith begins a national successor search.

Simultaneous to a $29 million transaction struck just over two years ago, Corpus Christi, Tex.-based Mako Communications agreed to offer to HC2 certain Construction Permits that it may obtain at a later date, for no cash consideration. Mako is now handing four of them over.