TV/Cable News

A noncommercial religious station that serves as the Daystar affiliate for the Spokane DMA got in hot water of its own for the pre-emption of "Core Programming." It's paying a civil penalty to absolve itself of its sin.

Some 56% of U.S. adults stream non-linear content to their TVs. Yet, new research from Nielsen finds that the typical U.S. adult streamer spends an average of 57 minutes streaming non-linear content to their TVs in a regular day. That’s significantly less time than streamers spend with linear TV.

On July 12, the FCC released a Report and Order modernizing the children’s television programming rules to give broadcasters "greater flexibility" in serving the educational and informational needs of children. It is now known that Sept. 16 is when the revised rules will take effect. Here's what you need to know about the upcoming rule changes.

In March, one Tennessee-based operator planning to bring cable TV services to a rural portion of the state filed a "Good Faith Negotiation Complaint" against Nexstar Media Group. The Media Bureau's Chief just ruled on the matter, and it disagrees with the MVPD.

TIP Initiative, an industry work group promoting open interfaces to streamline advertising transactions for local TV broadcasters and their media agency partners, has released a white paper highlighting results from the Local Broadcast TV Automation Survey. We've got the details.

We've all heard the reports that the U.S. economy is in danger of falling into recession. At the start of 2019, when such talk first surfaced, MoffettNathanson's dependable ad channel checks debunked such talk. With recessionary chatter rising again, the same conclusion has been made.

As America entered the Labor Day holiday, automotive dealers continued to stay dominant with their use of broadcast TV to reach potential consumers. But, they were all bested by a health and beauty aide brand, as a big department store chain greatly increased its activity at TV -- just as it did at radio.

As RBR+TVBR reported Thursday afternoon, AT&T and Nexstar resolved their nearly two-month-long carriage dispute and "blackout" by coming to terms on a new retrans agreement. The news was warmly received by shareholders, as Nexstar's stock jumped by nearly 5% in Friday's trading.

With Hurricane Dorian poised to greatly impact North Central Florida, local TV viewers in two counties may wish to tune to the ABC affiliate serving the Gainesville-Ocala DMA. However, this station, acquired in 2017 by Gray Television, isn't on DirecTV or DISH Network. That will change soon -- with a caveat.

It's official: The Walt Disney Company has sold its equity interest in the cable sports and entertainment offering YES Network to a newly formed investor group that includes Yankee Global Enterprises and the company poised to merge with Tribune Media.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has taken a lead role in the voluntary rollout of the next-gen broadcast TV standard, ATSC 3.0. As such, it has an entire team of individuals devoted to the company's development and deployment of next-gen technologies such as this. Now, it is upping a VP to SVP.

Media executive JT Batson and his team of sell-side, buy-side, linear, and digital professionals have forged a strategic partnership with Comscore, the "trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms" that has seen severe share value erosion since April.

On August 10, Barron's noted that a recent decline in value of Gray Television shares could be tied to an ugly situation that involves one of its competitors and AT&T. The mere possibility Gray could be in the same position come Q4 is the likely reason Gray stock continues to sag.

With Gray Television shares declining on Tuesday, the continued poor performance on Wall Street for the company overshadowed news that greatly impacts viewers of NFL games and the 90210 reunion mini-series.

Is broadcast television, and cable, a no-growth industry? The latest National Television Household Universe Estimates from Nielsen suggest that may be the case, putting added pressure on an industry increasingly reliant on retransmission consent revenue to overcome declining advertising dollars.