TV/Cable News

The Code Conference, which concludes Wednesday at The Phoenician, has emerged as one of the world's premier tech industry gatherings. It's an invitation-only affair, but we've received a copy of the 2019 internet trends report from Mary Meeker. Here are the highlights.

Well before Tuesday's Opening Bell on Wall Street, TEGNA announced that it has reached a deal with the Wolfe family to purchase the two TV stations it operates under its Dispatch Broadcast Group for more than a half-billion dollars. Investors soured on the news, selling TGNA shares on substantially high volume.

UBS Telecom and Cable Analyst John Hodulik suggests that the best path taken for AT&T was to spin off DirecTV, and allow DISH Network to merge with it, forming a single direct broadcast satellite service in the U.S. A JPMorgan analyst is hardly in agreement.

The NAB hasn't been too fond, historically, of Microsoft Corp.'s ideas regarding Television White Spaces to bring broadband internet access to America's rural areas. Now, it is saying it supports a FNPRM from the FCC, as this could fully vet Microsoft's plan.

A group of 25 rural broadband advocates has joined Connect Americans Now in filing comments urging the FCC to open a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) that facilitates the development and deployment of TV White Spaces (TVWS) technology.

Two pro-MVPD groups have called on the FCC to adopt a regulatory fee schedule for Fiscal Year 2019 in which Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) providers pay the same per-subscriber fee as cable operators and IPTV providers to support the FCC Media Bureau’s activities.

The Incentive Auction Task Force (IATF) and Media Bureau (MB), in conjunction with the Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA), have set the procedures, terms and conditions, and minimum opening bid amounts, for the upcoming auction of LPTV and TV translator CPs.

One-time competitors XM and Sirius eventually merged to create a singular source of commercial-free subscription-based satellite radio programming. Now, one analyst is suggesting the nation's two direct broadcast satellite companies follow their lead.

One of the world's most ubiquitous audio streaming platforms for podcasts and broadcast radio stations is poised to share all with the federal Copyright Royalty Board as it pertains to royalty payments made in 2018.

Are you the owner of a full-power and Class A TV stations receiving repack reimbursement that has changed banking information or has bought or sold an eligible station? If yes, the attorneys at Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth have some friendly tips to share.

A reporter and anchor who has been with the ABC affiliate serving Miami-Dade, Monroe and Broward Counties since 1989 was found dead Monday. He was 56. On Wednesday afternoon, the station, WPLG-10, revealed that Todd Tongen had taken his own life.

Luken Communications’ country music and lifestyle channel can now been seen in five new television markets -- a move that broadens its national footprint by one-third.

There'll be no "great affiliate swaps" in any markets where TEGNA owns television stations airing programming from the CBS Television Network. CBS Corp. and the media company formerly known as Gannett on Thursday reached "a comprehensive, multi-year deal."

There's a QSR giant that has risen to the top of the heap with respect to the active advertisers using Spot TV to connect with consumers. It's an exceptional achievement, as this fast food chain had more spot plays during the period as measured by Media Monitors than any automotive dealer.

Why is musicFIRST taking on this issue if it doesn’t have anything to do with music creators and fans? The musicFIRST coalition is on a PR blitz and wants the world to know that "the NAB is broadcasting out of both sides of their mouth when it comes to fair pay."